Tag: Poverty

LAHORE: A high-level committee of the Punjab Assembly has declared that a controversial colonial-era law effectively criminalises poverty and must ...

• Arrival of used clothing hits a record $511m in FY25 • Flea markets have become vital for low-income groups ...

SEVILLE, (Spain): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world to “rev up the engine of development” at an aid conference ...

The World Bank has updated the poverty lines for countries like Pakistan in its June 2025 Global Poverty Update. These ...

A World Bank report has contradicted the Pakistani government’s claims of economic progress in 2024. While the government maintained that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva opened the summit of the Group of 20 major economies ...

WASHINGTON: A global target of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is “out of reach,” said the World Bank on Tuesday, ...

UNITED NATIONS (news agencies) — The U.N. General Assembly approved a blueprint Sunday to bring the world’s increasingly divided nations ...

DILI, East Timor (news agencies) — Pope Francis was flying to Singapore on Wednesday for the final leg of his ...

WASHINGTON (news agencies) — The inflation-adjusted median income of U.S. households rebounded last year to roughly its 2019 level, overcoming ...