ISLAMABAD - Poverty in Pakistan has worsened significantly, with 44.7% of the population now living below the poverty line, ...

The World Bank has revised the global income thresholds used to measure poverty, resulting in a big increase in Pakistan's poverty headcount, which now stands at 44.7%. However, experts caution that ...

ISLAMABAD: The new poverty lines for Pakistan — a lower middle-income country, set at $4.20/person/day up from ...

The World Bank has updated its international poverty lines as part of a routine global revision to reflect evolving price ...

Pakistan has reportedly reached out to World Bank to intervene in the matter, however, it has refused to step in so far ...

The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and the World Bank have agreed to deepen collaboration to strengthen data ...

China accounted for about 5 percent, or $441.8 billion, of the $8.8 trillion in public external debt owed by all low- and middle-income countries, according to data from the World Bank's 2024 report ...