While presenting the findings here at the World Bank's local office, Wieser said that higher growth and lower inflation ...

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

In any functioning democracy, poverty should be treated as an economic and human challenge, not a political asset. Yet, in ...

World Bank says Pakistan’s 3% growth rate is too low to reduce poverty; urges reforms in tax, exports, and investment sectors ...

Responding to criticism over frequently changing economic and poverty estimates, the Washington-based lender attributes ...

Pakistan is grappling with an escalating poverty crisis, a situation exacerbated by economic mismanagement, structural ...

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

A new Oxfam report reveals sharp disparities in national income in Pakistan, with the top 10 per cent holding 42 per cent.

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 ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The families of more than 3 million poor children in Pakistan will receive cash stipends if their children go to school, the government said as officials prepared to mark "Malala ...