Anyone who studies South Asia will want to bookmark this site and monitor its development. The site provides links to the organization's prgrammes, publications, as well as details about the published research studies, databases and directories. A calendar has been given online regarding trainings in the upcoming year. Additionally highlights of recent activities undertaken by the organization are provided on the home page. Anti-poverty programmes often assume so.
Recent studies suggest, however, that poor households move in and out of poverty a great deal.
The study suggests that policies which help households to smooth income can dramatically reduce transitory poverty. But in the long-term, only large and sustained growth in household incomes will reduce chronic poverty. PIC is a key component of the Bank's outreach activities, providing information also to government officials, researchers, academicians, students, journalists, NGOs, entrepreneurs and members of civil society at large. This was stated by World Bank Acting Country Director for Pakistan, Abid Hasan, while inaugurating the centre at the Bank's office here on Friday. In order to bridge the information gap between those who have access to the Internet and those who do not, the PIC has been equipped with four public computer terminals with Internet connectivity, he added.