Pakistan, Nov. 5 -- Pakistan's population has reached an estimated 260 million, but the country's growing demographic weight is increasingly accompanied by a shrinking capacity to provide its people with economic security, adequate nutrition, quality education and dignified livelihoods. A large population is often described as an economic opportunity, yet that opportunity means little when millions of people are unable to meet their most basic needs. Pakistan is not simply struggling with poverty; it is struggling with the conditions that continually reproduce it. Economic instability, rising living costs, climate catastrophes, regional conflicts, weak job creation and inadequate investment in human development are converging to push hous...