Pakistan's long-standing progress in reducing poverty has come to a halt, economists cautioned at the Fifth Annual International Conference of the School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS) at IBA.
New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI/NewsVoir): The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia and Veddis Foundation announced the launch of the Alliance for Scaling Policy Impact through Research and Evidence (ASPIRE) today. ASPIRE aims to spur the adoption of anti-poverty policies
Beijing [China], Feb 20 (ANI): China is planning to lift over 4,00,000 people out of poverty within this year in its restive Xinjiang autonomous region in northwestern China, as the Chinese Government fears a rise in numbers of local armed groups.