ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday launched a Ramazan Relief Package worth Rs 5 billion at utility stores across the country to provide maximum relief...
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indicated its willingness to sympathetically view the targeted assistance for poor and vulnerable, especially flood affected people...
Punjab Health Minister Dr. Yasmin Rashid on Saturday has said that provincial government is committed to provide relief to the vulnerable segments of the society.
Governments are exacerbating inequality by increasingly underfunding public services like healthcare and education at the same time as they consistently under-tax the wealthy
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Khan Afridi on Monday said Prime Minister Imran Khan had directed not to dislocate poor people in...
MELBOURNE: The Melbourne pitch for the fourth Ashes Test match has been rated "poor" by the International Cricket Council (ICC), reportedly the first for...
VATICAN: Pope Francis declined to give a personal judgment on US President-elect Donald Trump in an interview on Friday, saying he was interested only...
ANAND, INDIA: At a hostel for dozens of pregnant women, impoverished widow Sharmila Mackwan weighs up her decision to carry twins for another couple -- her only ticket out of poverty - as the government moves to close India's multi-million dollar surrogacy industry.
ISLAMABAD: The outgoing chief of United Nations Development Programme, Marc Andre believes that the concentration of public spending in Pakistan is politically driven and only restricted to a few developed districts, which is increasing inequality between the rich and poor regions.
RIO DE JANEIRO: Restaurant-goers usually pay hundreds of euros to eat the creations of Massimo Bottura, but he will be serving poor Brazilians for free at the Olympics.
ISLAMABAD: Former president Asif Ali Zardari said the budgetary proposals failed to address critical issues in documenting economy, improving revenue collection, preventing tax evasion, and addressing the growing disparity between the rich and the poor.
The richest 1% now has more wealth than the rest of the world combined. Power and privilege is being used to skew the economic system to increase the gap between the richest and the rest, says a report issued by Oxfam.
ISLAMABAD: Despite recent optimism surrounding Pakistan's economy, the country is facing an "existential crisis" stemming from its woeful tax collection rates and inability to finance itself, a report said Wednesday.