Part of this income finds its way into demand for consumer goods. Manufacturers seeing this upsurge respond by first increasing utilization of existing capacity and then expanding capacity through new investment. That is why we have seen double digit growth in investment, manufacturing production and sales and high overall growth rate of GDP.
BIS Review 41/2005  1  But it must also be admitted that poverty is not only a phenomenon of low incomes but that of powerlessness, state of helplessness and lack of access and opportunities. In Pakistan, literacy rate is about 50 per cent and there is a high correlation between poverty and literacy. Those who are poor are preponderantly illiterate.