KARACHI ( Wednesday, October 21, 2015) : Poverty is rising in rural South Asia at an all-time high rate, with the rural areas of Pakistan making up approximately 80 percent of the country’s poor despite of efforts to control these rates through demographic shifts to urban areas, and accessibility to base commodities made easier.
Throughout the 70s and 80s, several rural development programs were initiated to balance out these numbers, but as the urban population increases, the contemporary issues faced by the rural communities of Pakistan take a back seat.
Shoaib Sultan Khan has been with the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) since 1982, and with the organization, has redefined rural development in the region of South Asia. Through poverty alleviation and rural development models drawn up by him, regions as far off as Andhra Pradesh have now had 45 million people successfully settled.
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