Discussions on the precarious situation in Pakistan today tend to be focused mostly on the threat from fundamentalist or “jihadi” militants. The focus on that threat is absolutely critical, however, ...

Mariam Bibi says last Christmas was her best ever thanks to the Association for Women’s Awareness and Rural Development Mariam Bibi at the counter of her grocery store opened with an additional grant ...

This study attempts to quantify the inter-provincial and interdistrict differences among villages with respect to the availability of and access to certain crucial inputs and services which affect the ...

Pakistan’s latest housing census, conducted in March 2023, reported that 84 percent of households had access to grid electricity, down from 88 percent in 2017. While urban electrification remained ...

A research team based in Italy and Pakistan has examined the socio-technical implications of installing solar microgrids in rural off-grid communities in Pakistan. The research covered three rural ...

Vol. 55, No. 4, Papers and Proceedings: PARTS I and II The 31st Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists Islamabad, December 17 - 19, 2015 (Winter 2016), ...

ISLAMABAD: The National Rural Support Programme on Tuesday celebrated the completion of its two-year Internet Dost and Internet Zabardast initiative, which empowered more than 132,000 people in ...

For the last seven years, Amanullah Dayo had been part of a project on tuberculosis (TB) control of the Sindh Rural Support Organisation (SRSO) in Sukkur. “I built my life around this work,” says Dayo ...

Punjab CM pays tribute to resilience, hard work of rural women on International Day of Rural Women Describes them as partners in Punjab’s development and backbone of its agricultural economy Says ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...