Don’t compare yourself with India. India is fastest growing economy. Punjab in Pakistan remained food basket for whole India for centuries. But now poverty in Pakistan is a growing concern. Although the middle-class has grown in Pakistan to 40 million, nearly one-quarter of the population is classified poor as of October 2006. As of 2008, 17.2% of the total population lives below the poverty line, which is the lowest figure in the history of Pakistan. The declining trend in poverty as seen in the country during the 1970s and 1980s was reversed in the 1990s by poor federal policies and rampant corruption. This phenomenon has been referred to as the poverty bomb. As of 2009, Pakistan's Human Development Index (HDI) is 0.572, just higher than that of nearby Bangladesh’s 0.543, which was formerly a part of the country itself. Pakistan's HDI still stands lower than that of neighbouring India's at 0.612
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