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Pakistan Faces Socioeconomic Crisis Due to Food Inflation and Unemployment

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New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) Pakistan’s socioeconomic crisis is being worsened by rising food inflation and unemployment rates, according to a media report.Maldives Insight cited the World Bank’s data to show that about 45 per cent of the population in Pakistan is classified as living below the Poverty Line (BPL). The country’s unemployment rate remains at a 21-year low, with investment at a 50-year low and gross debt-to-GDP ratio at 71.3 per cent.“All this deepens stagnation, inequality, fi…