Much labour shift was into low-productivity construction, trade, transport and other services.

What it does not prove: Low productivity relative to manufacturing does not mean these jobs paid worse than the farm work they replaced — this is the very shift the World Bank credits with driving the long-run poverty fall. The claim is about the composition and productivity level of the destination sectors, not that structural change was a mistake.

Memory hook: Construction, trade, transport → exit from farming without the productivity jump

Rebuts the claim: "A rising services share of employment shows Pakistan is modernising its economy" — the shift was into low-productivity services, not high-value ones.