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‘Pakistan’s poverty rate higher than India, B’desh’
none@none.com (Anwar Iqbal) · Dawn
Published 13 Oct 2026, 1:00 pm·5 h ago·1 min read
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WASHINGTON: More than one-third of Pakistan’s population faces overlapping deprivations in health, education and living standards, according to the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released on Monday. Figures released by the UNDP in New York show that 38.3 per cent of Pakistan’s population was multidimensionally poor, compared with 16.4 per cent in India and 14.9pc in Bangladesh. The estimates are based on household surveys conducted in different years and do not provide a strictly contemporaneous comparison. In Pakistan, the intensity of…
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