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 ...

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 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 poverty crisis continues to spiral out of control, with the World Bank’s 2025 assessment revealing a shocking 44.7 per cent of the population living below the USD 4.20/day poverty line, ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s poverty rate is climbing again after nearly two decades of steady decline, the World Bank (WB) warned in a new report on Tuesday, urging urgent people-centred reforms to ...

Discussions on the precarious situation in Pakistan today tend to be focused mostly on the threat from fundamentalist or “jihadi” militants. The focus on that threat is absolutely critical, however, ...

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 ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan has introduced an ambitious poverty alleviation plan that he says would help the country’s poorest gain better access to health care, ...