Thousands of people displaced by floods in 2022 in Sindh, Pakistan are still homeless, Feb 20, 2023. Credit: Twitter/Voices of Water Subscribe for ads-free reading It is when a natural disaster hits a ...

The latest data from the World Bank shows a clear difference between the situations in India and Pakistan. While India has made strong progress in reducing poverty, Pakistan is facing a serious rise ...

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has warned that Pakistan’s once-successful poverty reduction drive has stalled and reversed, with the poverty rate climbing by 7 percent in the past three years to a ...

The general global trend has been of a consistent and significant decline in poverty figures. Over the last few decades, countries in the Indian subcontinent, like India and Sri Lanka have ...

The World Bank has revised the global income thresholds used to measure poverty, resulting in a big increase in Pakistan's poverty headcount, which now stands at 44.7%. However, experts caution that ...

Rapid increase in population in Pakistan has been an alarming concern as the South Asian country continues to deal with ...

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank (WB) has projected Pakistan’s poverty rate at 25.3 percent, indicating more than 60 million people are living in the cruel clutches of poverty. The WB argAues that the growth ...

The intensification of climate extremes is exacerbating Pakistan's dual challenges of energy poverty and climate vulnerability, a condition known as summer energy poverty. For a significant portion of ...

Pakistan's sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The international lender said that between 2001 ...

Pakistan's progress in poverty reduction has stalled after nearly two decades of steady gains, experts warned at the Fifth Annual International Conference of the School of Economics and Social ...