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Daily Food Spending below 500 Yen among Needy People in Japan

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)--Needy households in Japan live on an average food expenditure of less than 500 yen per person a day amid lingering inflation, according to a survey by Save the Children…

  • Needy Japanese households spend less than 500 yen daily on food
  • 94.5% of respondents were single parents in the survey
  • 85.5% couldn't afford groceries for their families in the past year

Business

Govt begins to move out of power business

ISLAMABAD: The government has taken a major step towards transforming Pakistan’s power sector from a single-buyer model to a competitive electricity market, under which it would neither sell electricity nor purchase power from producers in the traditional manner.

Finance & Markets

NIBSS Digest: When Payment Infrastructure Finds Its Voice

The maiden issue of the quarterly publication assembles an unusually assemblage of regulators, bankers, fintech practitioners and technology specialists, making a persuasive case for taking the…

  • NIBSS Digest explores future of payments beyond transaction volumes
  • Contributors include regulators, bankers, fintech experts, tech specialists
  • Topics covered: Nigeria's Payments System Vision 2028, interoperability
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