Under the World Bank’s old definition of $2.15 per capita threshold for low income countries (LICs), 4.9pc of Pakistan’s ...

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The World Bank has updated its global poverty assessment criteria, pushing Pakistan’s poverty rate ...

The World Bank has also updated the extreme poverty line from $2.15 to $3 per person per day. Because of the revision in the ...

These lines are based on 2021 purchasing power parity rates, as well as updated national poverty lines. For Pakistan, 16.5 per cent of the population lived below the $3 international poverty rate in ...

The World Bank has revised the global poverty line, declaring 44.7% of Pakistan’s population as poor under a $4.20/day benchmark. Nearly 40 million Pakistanis now live in extreme poverty, earning less ...

The World Bank has revised its global poverty assessment criteria, resulting in a significant increase in Pakistan's reported poverty rate-from 39.8% to 44.7%.Under the updated framework, individuals ...

Pakistan's children are losing weeks of education each year to school closures caused by climate change-linked extreme ...

Heat, smog and cold snaps have all caused schools to close early in Pakistan, leaving students falling behind on academics.

The World Bank has released a new assessment of poverty in Pakistan, according to which the poverty rate in Pakistan has ...

In 2018, China’s biggest ejiao manufacturer raised the price of its products by 6pc, a decision based on the market supply ...