Pakistan’s finance chief acknowledges poverty challenge after World Bank report

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has acknowledged the country’s growing poverty challenge following a World Bank report showing that nearly half of the poorest people in its newly defined Middle East regional grouping live in Pakistan. Speaking to Michael Kugelman of the Atlantic Council on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Aurangzeb said Pakistan’s recent inclusion in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan (MENAAP) region

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