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Bangladesh is a country that has undergone an astonishing transformation over the past few decades, quietly shifting from a poverty-stricken nation into one of South Asia’s emerging economic ...
Using loopholes and fraud, brokers turn poverty in Bangladesh and demand for transplants in India into booming business.
There are still far too many people surviving on far too little – but Bangladesh’s impressive record in dramatically reducing extreme poverty gives us hope that other countries can do the same.
Neighbouring countries like China, Bangladesh, and Nepal have managed to make meaningful progress in poverty alleviation ...
Bangladesh’s poverty rate in 2016 may have been 1.7 to 2.3 percentage points higher than the rate estimated by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics while the extreme poverty rate may have been 3. ...
Inside Bangladesh it’s being dubbed a Gen Z revolution – a protest movement that pitted mostly young student demonstrators against a 76-year-old leader who had dominated her nation for decades ...
Two-and-a-half weeks after a popular uprising forced the flight of long time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s military-installed interim government continues to consolidate its ...
Bad roads cost Bangladesh over $10 billion annually and trap millions in poverty. The deeper costs of a broken transport system—missed schooldays, maternal deaths, farm losses—reveal a nation stalled ...