In the Western countries, the population gets a higher share of the national income than they do in the other parts of the world. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the population only gets 30 percent of the national income, which is one of the reasons that there is more poverty in Africa as compared to what there is in, say, Europe. It is not just because of economic growth and that there is a bigger pie in Europe, but also because the population in Africa gets less of what there is. Indeed, Pakistan was not immune to this global financial crisis, which shown by the economic misery index for Pakistan, which is basically inflation change plus unemployment, between 1972 and 2012. The economic misery in Pakistan has been increasing since 2008. It is strange that when employment and inflation are increasing so fast in Pakistan that income poverty still cease to be fuelling according to the national statistics; when employment and inflation go up, poverty also tends to go up.