Findings reveal a poverty decline in Pakistan between 2013 and 2015, with significant provincial variations in this decline. Despite a minor decline in the headcount ratio of the larger provinces, their poverty shares increased in 2013鈥 showing a regional convergence trend with growing disparities in...
Moreover, the approach spread to most other informal settlements in Karachi, and to many other cities in Pakistan and beyond. There is considerable overlap between the four challenges discussed in this paper and the four barriers preventing improvements by communities identified by the OPP in the ...
While keeping the problem of climate change in mind it is very important to ask ourselves the question who will suffer the most? The simple answer is that it would be the poor nations who will suffer the most and even more so the poor people, who live in these ...
Having skyrocketed to generational highs last year – deepening poverty and turbocharging inflation from Pakistan to Ghana – the currency has now entered what some forecasters are calling the start of a multi-year decline. /jlne.ws/3kmXDL1 The Ranks of 401(k) Millionaires Are Shrinking; New...
In the 1990s, most of the suicide bombers were male, many with backgrounds full of poverty and personal frustration. Today, these individuals come from both sexes and varying economic backgrounds. While many are young adults, others are middle-aged or even children. Yet the personal loss aspect...
In 2020, 120 million more people were living in extreme poverty than the previous year and that's expected to rise to 150 million in 2021. And it's not just the global south: one in seven New Zealand children live in poverty53, one in five German children54 and nearly...
cooperation with various parties in infectious disease control, public health, traditional medicine and other areas, Xi said, noting that Chinese businesses have already started joint vaccine production in BRI countries such as Indonesia, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey....
There is a beauty in all of that, but there is also a horrible sadness that there are people who can afford to live in mansions and who own summer and winter estates, people who live while others are lucky to survive. Pakistan, which is called the land of the pure, ...
There is evidence that most people are aware of the importance of healthy eating and have a broad understanding regarding types of food that enhance or detract from health. However, greater health literacy does not always result in healthier eating. Andr
Over the past decade, global health issues have become more prominent in foreign policies at the national level. The process to develop state level global health strategies is arguably a form of global health diplomacy (GHD). Despite an increase in the v