While Bangladesh’s economic narrative often highlights growth, progress in poverty reduction paints a far less encouraging ...

At the launch of the World Bank's report, Bangladesh Poverty and Equity Assessment 2025, the country's leading economists delivered a stark warning: Bangladesh is entering a phase where long-held ...

Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed said the poverty rate has been rising since 2022, reversing more than ten years of steady decline.

Since its founding two years ago, Efforts in Youth Development in Bangladesh (EYDB) has raised approximately $20,000 to fight poverty and child labor. Rising high school senior Jahin Rahman near her ...

Maungchanu Tripura has been familiar with poverty and hunger for years, but the Covid-19 pandemic has worsened the plight of his family. Tripura, 54, is an ethnic Tripura Catholic and father of four ...

DHAKA, October 7, 2019 — Bangladesh has progressed significantly in reducing poverty and improving living conditions, mostly driven by labor income. Between 2010-2016, about 8 million Bangladeshi ...

Using 2005 and 2010 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) data, the paper examines income inequality and poverty in Bangladesh with focus on their spatial dimensions. As disparity among ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - The number of people living in poverty in Bangladesh has fallen sharply over a decade, to 47 million from 63 million, a new World Bank report said on Thursday. Despite a growing ...

As that nation turns 50, its surprising success offers lessons about investing in the most marginalized. By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist One of the great moral stains on the United States is ...

BESIDES shoes and shrimp, Bangladesh exports poverty cures. Microfinance was developed there in the late 1970s before spreading. In 2002 BRAC, a charity, started giving assets such as cows (and ...