IN nuclear-powered Pakistan nearly 40-50 per cent of the country’s 240 million people live below or around the poverty line, ...

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) ...

The General Sales Tax has the largest marginal contribution to the rise of poverty while a monthly cash transfer programme to the poorest families has the largest positive impact on inequality ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Numbers often illuminate less than they obscure. In Pakistan, and official poverty statistics fluctuate dramatically —from one survey showing barely one-fifth of the population below the poverty line ...