IN nuclear-powered Pakistan nearly 40-50 per cent of the country’s 240 million people live below or around the poverty line, ...

The Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, Papers and Proceedings PART II Twentieth Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists Islamabad, January ...

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 ...

A report issued earlier this month by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), a governmental research organisation, highlighted the pervasive poverty wracking rural Pakistan. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD: The new poverty lines for Pakistan — a lower middle-income country, set at $4.20/person/day up from $3.65/person/day, affecting 44.7 percent of the population rose from 39.8 percent, says ...

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 ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...