Bangladesh has seen impressive economic growth in recent years, emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia.

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.

Over the decade, the number of poor people in Bangladesh declined by 26%. Poverty reduction was closely linked to the growth in labor income and changes in demographics. To continue this, policies ...

Neighbouring countries like China, Bangladesh, and Nepal have managed to make meaningful progress in poverty alleviation ...

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.

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 ...