Full Coverage: Aid

23.06.2006 The figures cited by the government for people living below the poverty line have come to be widely questioned. With poverty alleviation being the buzzword these days in our economic and social development and a key criterion for aid givers, it is understandable that the policymakers are desperately trying to prove the success of their strategy in terms of falling poverty levels.

16.06.2006 Eight thousand families in northern Pakistan left destitute by last OctoberÂ’s devastating earthquake that killed around 80,000 will receive financial and technical support to rebuild their houses and buy livestock through a new project supported by a $26.4 million loan from the UnitedNations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

15.06.2006 British MPs are challenged to show on Friday that they really want to transform the lives of the world's most vulnerable people.

12.06.2006 India has said it will give Nepal 10 billion rupees ($218m, £118m) in aid, most of it to be spent on development. The funds will be used to help build or upgrade roads, railways, an oil pipeline and an airport, a joint Indo-Nepalese statement said.

08.06.2006 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) plans to end its active engagement from Pakistan's quake-affected areas. More than 75,000 people were killed and thousands more injured on 8 October after a powerful 7.6 magnitude quake in north and west Pakistan.