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In a sign of importance the Internet holds for the future, the number of global network users has increased rapidly as 3.5 billion people will be using it by the end of the year- a jump...

FEATURED IMAGE above shows a Yemeni refugee family in Darwin Camp Photo Credit: UNHCR/Yahya Arhab The number of refugees and displaced people spiraled to unprecedented 65.3 million last year, the United Nations said in another grim...

The World Bank says Pakistan will register a 4.5 % GDP growth this year as economic activity picks up in the second largest South Asian economy. Pakistan’s economy – helped by an upbeat macro-economic outlook, low...

As people in developing countries fume over Panama Papers revelations about corruption of their venal elites, a new research paper has said the cost of corruption is wide-ranging, diminishing prospects of economic growth and advancement of societies....

Nearly two-thirds of the global population is expected to live in cities by 2030 and produce as much as 80 per cent of the global gross domestic product (GDP), sparking innovation, reducing poverty and improving the...

With little prospects for a turnaround in 2016, growth in the world economy remains weak, posing a challenge to the implementation of development targets, a new United Nations report released this week has found. The UN World Economic...

As reports said El Nino phenomenon had contributed to spell that has seen fires raging through Canada’s Alberta province, the United Nations  has asked called for coordinated efforts to prevent weather extremes resulting from disturbed atmospheric patterns. A...

A string of recent eye-opening reports have established links between inequality and turmoil at social, national and international levels. For example, a report late last year highlighted how inequality and economic frustrations led to Arab Spring...

In Pakistan, the provincial Punjab Assembly passed a landmark legislation last week, criminalizing all forms of violence against women. A few days later, the Council of Islamic Ideology, a federal advisory body, ruled the law as...

A year after the Iranian youth introduced the Wall of Kindness, or Deewar-e-Meherbani – as it is known in Persian and Urdu languages –  the social welfare concept has transcended across the border into Pakistani cities....