34% of Pakistan's Population Lives on Just Rs 588 A Day Income, Says World Bank
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Around 34% of Pakistan's population lives on just USD 3.2 or Rs 588 a day income, the World Bank has said as the cash-strapped country's new Finance Minister Miftah Isamil faces uphill tasks of containing rising inflation and navigating through one of the worst external sector crisis. The Pakistan Development Update - the biannual report issued by the Washington-based lender - said that soaring inflation disproportionately affected poor.