Tag: Poverty
More than one billion people living in acute poverty: UN report
Web Desk
More than one billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half of...
How to measure Rural Poverty: FAO launches new method
Web DeskThe majority of the world’s poor live in rural areas, but reliable and harmonised information on their numbers and conditions is...
Poverty: ADB approves $200mn additional financing loan for BISP
By Muhammad Luqman
The Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $200 million loan as additional financing to support the Benazir Income Support Programme...
World Bank Report: Pakistan’s urban-rural gap widens
By Muhammad Luqman
Rural areas in Pakistan remain much poorer than urban areas and are far more disadvantaged in all aspects of service delivery, with...