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 ...

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

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

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

Despite Field Marshal Asim Munir’s global diplomacy and growing influence, Pakistan’s economic collapse, deepening poverty, ...

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 ...

Amid this backdrop of economic fragility, Pakistan’s currency appears deceptively stable. As of September 2025, the USD/PKR ...

The poor are not a faceless group, but a diverse tapestry of individuals and families, each facing unique constraints and requiring tailored solutions. Pakistan saw notable poverty reduction from 2001 ...

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 ...