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COMBATING POVERTY ACHIEVING SDGS IN THARPARKAR

29 Pages : 266-273

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).29      10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).29      Published : Dec 2019

Combating Poverty: Achieving SDGs in Tharparkar

    Fight against poverty and sustainable development has equal importance in todays development discourse. This paper explores the relationship between poverty and sustainable development and how they can be inclined to achieve Sustainable development goals. Economic factors have also been explored in this paper and the social, economic and behavioral improvement which only the improvement of the economic factors can bring to the locale. It has also been observed that poverty is mainly the factor that causes problems when addressed social problems that can be minimized. Poverty counts on the basic necessities of life for individuals improving it can improve the locale. In the end, the discussion is concluded and measures are suggested which can be adopted to make the poverty reduction strategies more effective.

    Poverty, Sustainable Development Goals, Policy, Degradation, Migration
    (1) Roomi Saeed Hayat
    Chief Executive Officer (CEO),Department of Anthropology,Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Anwaar Mohyuddin
    Assistant Professor,Department of Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Hayat, Roomi Saeed, and Anwaar Mohyuddin. 2019. "Combating Poverty: Achieving SDGs in Tharparkar." Global Regional Review, IV (IV): 266-273 doi: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).29
    HARVARD : HAYAT, R. S. & MOHYUDDIN, A. 2019. Combating Poverty: Achieving SDGs in Tharparkar. Global Regional Review, IV, 266-273.
    MHRA : Hayat, Roomi Saeed, and Anwaar Mohyuddin. 2019. "Combating Poverty: Achieving SDGs in Tharparkar." Global Regional Review, IV: 266-273
    MLA : Hayat, Roomi Saeed, and Anwaar Mohyuddin. "Combating Poverty: Achieving SDGs in Tharparkar." Global Regional Review, IV.IV (2019): 266-273 Print.
    OXFORD : Hayat, Roomi Saeed and Mohyuddin, Anwaar (2019), "Combating Poverty: Achieving SDGs in Tharparkar", Global Regional Review, IV (IV), 266-273