Population growth has direct nexus with poverty:
Goodwill Ambassador for Women Empowerment Fiza Batool Gilani on Thursday said rapid population growth has a direct nexus with poverty, ill health and dilution of economic gains.
THE World Bank said on Tuesday more people are living in extreme poverty in developing countries than previously thought as it adjusted the recognised yardstick for measuring global poverty to US$1.25 a day from US$1.