German Ambassador has promised that his government would provide a €6.6 million grant to strengthen the health insurance initiative of BISP.

BANK Alfalah and Acumen have partnered to launch a program entitled ‘Eradicating Poverty through Entrepreneurship in Pakistan’, based on a USD 40,000 grant as part of the Bank’s CSR program.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $430 million equivalent loan to expand and strengthen Pakistan’s national social safety net programme, which is helping to lift millions of families ou

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said on Wednesday the global development lender must work to halve extreme poverty in the next seven years if it is to reach a more ambitious target set for 2030.

Praise comes five years after it described the programme as a ‘policy barrier’ to economic development and poverty alleviation

For the beleaguered UPA government, here are some words of praise. The flagship rural employment guarantee scheme has comes in for praise from the World Bank, five years after it described the programme as “policy barrier” to economic development and poverty alleviation.

Federal government has launched seven new schemes for poverty alleviation and employment across the country.

A non-govt organisation will expend Tk.15 cr for development slum dwellers in 35 city wards of the port city in this fiscal under city partnership programs with city corporation .