One cannot tread the path of trade on an empty stomach: Goyal at WTO meet

Geneva, Jun 14 (PTI) India on Tuesday strongly pitched to the WTO members for finding a permanent solution to the issue of public stock holding of grains for food security…

Exclusive-World Bank backs using $280 million in frozen aid funds for Afghanistan

By Arshad Mohammed and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank's board has backed transferring $280 million from a frozen trust fund to two aid agencies to help Afghanistan…

U.N. says about half of Myanmar’s people could sink into poverty in 2022

(Reuters) - Urban poverty is on course to triple in Myanmar, pushing nearly half the population below the poverty line next year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as the…

U.N. pushes cash handouts to avert mass poverty in Afghanistan

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Wednesday that a program to pay $300 million a year in cash to Afghan families with children, elderly…

Pakistan I.M.F’d

Pakistanis were ecstatic when Prime Minister Imran Khan said ‘absolutely not’ to a question on whether his country will give bases to US to carry out operations in Afghanistan. Imran’s…

By Sushant Sareen

Poverty in Pakistan rises to over 5 pc in 2020, estimates World Bank

Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): The World Bank (WB) has estimated that poverty in Pakistan has increased from 4.4 per cent to 5.4 per cent in 2020, as over two…