Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the ...

KARACHI, Pakistan — Until recently, polio was considered a poor man’s problem in Pakistan — a crippling virus that festered in the mountainous tribal belt, traversed the country on interprovincial ...

After 20 years of progress, a recently released World Bank report paints a grim picture: one in four Pakistanis now lives in poverty, with peaks of 42.7 per cent in Balochistan. This is driven by a ...

The World Bank has questioned Pakistan's recent claims of poverty reduction, observing that only limited groups within 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 ...

On June 10, Pakistan unveiled its first-ever fully climate-tagged federal budget, sparking debate in policy and civil society circles. While many experts hailed it as a progressive step toward ...

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank (WB) has called for people-centred reforms in Pakistan, following a 7% increase in the country's poverty rate over the last three years. The Washington-based lender's report ...

When Founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah took over the leadership of his new nation eleven years ago, he complained of the “mutilated, truncated, moth-eaten Pakistan” that the British partition plan had given ...