Poverty

Sadiq said that they were launching a project of initiating trainings to 50,000 farmers

Khurram Nawaz Gandapur releases fact-finding report.

On June 20, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal launched Pakistan’s first-ever report on multidimensional poverty

Balochistan fares the worst among the provinces: MPI report

I am proud to see Pakistan and ADB’s bond is stronger than ever as we cooperate to fight poverty & boost prosperity

Debt bondage in agriculture and at brick kilns within our country remains a glaring problem

The chicks will go to rural areas in two dozen developing countries from Burkina Faso to Bolivia

Afsar Jan says he has spent all savings on his ailing wife’s treatment

Grant for Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund lowered.

There are now 7.6m households below the new poverty line against 3 million households considered poor a decade ago

Inequality within moderate to poor countries is increasingly denying millions access to even two square meals a day

Finance minister meets IFAD vice-president to discuss way forward

Zymal has been a recipient of the Prince Abdul Aziz Award for Children Pioneer/Ecopreneur Award in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan would soon move to a path of poverty reduction and improvement in other socio-economic indices, Dar says

The need to improve accountability are measures which can help prevent the problems highlighted by Panama leaks

Policymakers in our country are fairly apt at reducing poverty by altering how poverty should be measured

BISP helps improve status of the poorest households: PPAF official

Baloch rejected the number, saying the actual number of people living below the poverty line in Pakistan is 29 million

How the govt calculated, without a census, a third of the country is below the poverty line, will remain a mystery

There can be little argument that Pakistan is a different country today than it was in 2001, with a decline in poverty

Government claims no matter which formula is used, poverty in Pakistan is on decline

As opposed to the previous 20 million, 59 million Pakistanis are now officially classified as poor

Starbucks says it aims to donate leftover ready-to-eat meals from all of its 7,600 outlets in US within five years

Government seems prepared to grasp the poverty nettle; and change the methodologies of measurement (again)

The Turkish organisation will help the Punjab government in transfer of knowledge, experience and technology

The Oxfam report titled “An economy for the 1%” says global crisis of inequality is reaching ever greater heights

Since majority of conflict-affected populations are in Muslim states, role of Islamic finance needs to be highlighted

Oxfam’s new inequality report says just 62 individuals now have the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people

Skewed narrative on terror and extremism has also misled Western leaders, such as President Barack Obama

Almost half the super-rich individuals are from the US, 17 from Europe, the rest from countries including China

There is little evidence that microfinance schemes such as his have had any impact on poverty reduction

Poverty-stricken, he found work in Saudi Arabia as a driver for a family. He was put up in a tiny airless room

According to EU figures, more than one in three children are at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Ending poverty will be impossible if global warming and its effects on the poor are not accounted for

The sahib ka beta lives in the lap of luxury while the child hired to take care of him starves

A drink with all the nutrients a body needs, and can be stored in powder form for several months is ideal for the poor

Pakistan participated in pioneering experiments of poverty alleviation under the able leadership of Qazi Ismat Isa

The failure of Pakistani private schools is best seen by comparing them with some really effective interventions

Those better off can recover much quicker from natural and man-made disasters than the poor and marginalised

The two are part of the Global Citizen Festival supported by major world leaders, celebrities and activists

Sarah Masih passed FSc with decent marks despite her school being closed

UN says 71% of girls do not attend secondary school

UAE-based photographer travels through Sahiwal to photograph people living on less than $2 per day

The number of Greeks at risk of poverty rises between 2008 and 2013 to over 44 per cent