Charter of the Economy SDG 16: PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS Target 16.1: Target 16.2: Significantly reduce all forms of violence End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against children SDG 17: PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS Target 17.1: Strengthen domestic tax and other revenue collection, including thorough international support Target 17.2: Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments of 0.7% of GNI Target 17.3: Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system The above SDGs and selected checklist of targets are useful to the Federal and Provincial Governments as they can act as prime objectives of policies and determinants of allocation of public resources. 29.2. Pakistan’s Progress on the SDGS There is need to review Pakistan’s progress in achievement of the various targets, especially from 2015 onwards. There is, of course, the need to highlight separately how the progress has been severely hampered and taken back by the pandemic, COVID-19. Poverty Reduction(Target 1.2): SPDC[2018] has estimated that the incidence of poverty was 38 percent in 2015, based on a poverty line corresponding to the cost of meeting minimum basic needs. It is estimated that it has fallen to 34.1 percent by 2019, prior to COVID-19. Level of Social Protection(Target 1.3): The Asian Development Bank has ranked Pakistan low among Asian countries in the Social Protection Index. Incidence of Malnutrition(Target 2.2): The Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey by the PBS indicates that 16 percent of the population suffers from malnutrition and in addition another 2 percent have severe malnutrition in 2018-19. Agricultural productivity of Farmers(Target 2.3): Agricultural productivity has increased per worker by only 3 percent between 2015 and 2019. The target is to double it by 2030. Infant Mortality(Target 3.2): The neo-natal mortality was 46 per 1000 live births in 2014 which has declined somewhat to 41 by 2019. The target is to reduce the incidence to only 12 by 2030. 306