45pc of Pakistanis live below poverty line: WB

ISLAMABAD: Almost forty-five per cent of Pakistan’s population lives below the poverty line, according to a World Bank report released on Thursday.

The finding, based on a survey conducted in 2018-19, comes in the wake of an update of global poverty lines made by the bank, and not because of any change in underlying economic conditions across the world.

The proportion of people living in extreme poverty has risen from 4.9pc to 16.5pc, according to the report.

The latest findings...