The World Bank’s latest report shows that poverty in Pakistan has climbed past 25%, highlighting the urgent need for long-term, inclusive reforms to safeguard the nation’s most vulnerable communities.

Pakistan’s flagship poverty reduction initiative has generated approximately 179,000 new jobs nationwide, highlighting a key outcome ...

ISLAMABAD: To calculate the latest poverty and inequality figures in Pakistan, the government has established a high-powered committee to estimate national and provincial poverty levels. However, the ...

New Delhi: Pakistan’s once-promising poverty reduction trajectory has come to a “troubling halt” with the poverty rate rising by 7 percentage points between 2021-2022 and 2023-2024 to reach 25.3 ...

Pakistan Economic and Social Review, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Winter 2020), pp. 297-313 (17 pages) Poverty is perceived to be vague in terms of (i) making judgement about who is to be considered as poor, (ii) ...

Shahid Masih, a Catholic dressmaker, was struggling with decreasing customers during the pandemic when one of them offered his 14-year-old daughter a job. Saddam Hayat offered Mashi's teenage daughter ...

London, Oct 24: Pakistan is facing a deepening poverty crisis that reflects the convergence of economic mismanagement, structural inefficiencies, and environmental devastation. Poverty Rate Jumps, ...

In any functioning democracy, poverty should be treated as an economic and human challenge, not a political asset. Yet, in Pakistan, the persistence of poverty has increasingly been converted into a ...

Without sustained efforts to introduce population control, Pakistan is unlikely to prosper along the lines envisioned by P.M. Imran Khan Writing in daily Dawn on Feb. 2, columnist Zahid Husain ...

The catastrophic floods this summer worsened Pakistan’s already severe menstrual health problems. Yet few are willing to even discuss the issue. The rains began in June 2022, and soon afterward more ...

THEY are the dirty, precious faces of war. These displaced children are living in extreme poverty with no hope of returning home. Generation after generation of children from Afghanistan have been ...

Around mid-1990s, there was growing awareness and recognition that after two decades of poverty reduction, these positive trends had either slowed down, or worse still, had been reversed. Many studies ...