摘要：Last month, the PM Imran Khan announced the country’s biggest emergency cash program, with a value of Rs 144bn, to disburse Rs 12,000 to approx. 12m beneficiaries. The World Bank has praised the PTI government’s EHSAAS welfare program, and its effectiveness in providing aid under the critical threat environment formed by the sharp spike in COVID 19 infections. The World Bank has urged considering making this method central to the national strategy to help people affected by the crisis, with statistics citing 24% of the 210m population reported as being below the poverty line. EHSAAS represents abroad poverty alleviation programme with a variety of individual modules numbering around 115, including initiatives such as the National Poverty Graduation Initiative [NPGI], which aims towards enabling sustainable livelihoods for people below the poverty line, with key elements including skills/vocational training, interest-free loans, and asset transfer, based on the core policy principle of ‘redistribution’ being used in most welfare states..
