Fragile stability

September 6, 2024 07:46 am

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has once again contended that ‘Pakistan is heading in the right direction’, conceding the urgency of securing external financing for the approval of its $7bn bailout package by the IMF executive board.

The welfare state distributes social security allowances to improve the living standards of people with poor economic status, a responsibility of the state. Nepal provides such allowances to senior citizens, Dalit seniors, the disabled, and single women.