rural areas it would not be big boast to claim that the fate of poverty stricken people living in the rural areas can be … social and economic projects have been launched to address the poverty of people living in backwards areas of Pakistan. This …

Poverty reduction is a central feature of the international development agenda and contemporary poverty reduction … strategies increasingly focus on “targeting the poor”, yet poverty and inequality remain intractable foes. The report seeks to … the causes, dynamics and persistence of poverty; examines what works and what has gone wrong in international policy …