Nothing erases development gains as suddenly and severely as natural disasters. Earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones wreak destruction, not only across borders but across generations, reversing the hard-won progress of…
One of the world’s great achievements of the past decades has been the significant fall in global poverty. Between 1990 and 2012, the proportion of humanity living under $1.90 a…
Pakistan is severely affected by climate-related devastation — floods, drought, food and water shortage. Scientists working with the United Nations have set the global goal to avoid these disasters including…
The official poverty figures are out after a gap of nine years. According to the Planning Commission, 29.5 percent of the population or roughly “60 million” (as per the official…
"All predictions are wrong; that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind".-Milan Kundera International Monetary Fund's celebrated quarterly journal Finance & Development (September 2014) did a bold work by asking…
The recent annual Human Development Report places Pakistan in the low human development category Human Development Report is a barometer of the state of human development in different countries of…
The government of Punjab has been in the limelight recently for carrying out much needed legislation, such as prohibiting child labour at brick kilns and curbing violence against women. While…
Microfinance during the last century was seen as a panacea for poverty alleviation, but since then there has been greater understanding of it as one among a variety of tools…
Everywhere I’ve worked, I’ve seen that people want essentially the same things: they want their children to be educated, they want decent work that enables them to reach their full…
On September 25, the 193 members of UN General Assembly unanimously adopted Agenda 2030, titled “transforming our world”. Through this agenda commonly known as Sustainable Development Goals, the global leadership…
