Empirical studies assessing the progress made so far indicate that growth of real consumption expenditure per capita and large targeted intervention in child survival, malnutrition and schooling over and above the more general intervention could take Pakistan closer to achieving these goals. Failing this, it will be quite difficult to attain any of the MDGs.
Financial assistance to poor families conditional on their making investment in their children’s human capital can bring about the desired results in improving child schooling, health and nutritional out comes. Conceptually, the economists think in terms of production function i.e. a set of inputs are deployed to produce one Unit of output.