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

With strategic investments in infrastructure and human capital, paired with timely and ambitious reforms, Bangladesh can build a resilient economy where opportunity is widely shared ...

Economic inequality in Bangladesh is expected to grow further in the short term as high inflation, stagnant wages and ...

Recently, on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Roquiah Sakhawat Hossein, popularly called Begum Rokeya, a university ...

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 ...

Chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan said the country has already slipped into a debt trap and must confront the problem ...

A fire in a densely populated and impoverished area in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has burned or damaged 1,500 shanties, leaving thousands homeless, authorities say.

A devastating fire in a crowded slum in Bangladesh's capital has destroyed 1,500 shanties and left thousands homeless.

A fire in a crowded slum in Bangladesh’s capital has burned or damaged 1,500 shanties, leaving thousands homeless, authorities said Wednesday. No casualties were reported. The blaze, which began ...

Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed on Wednesday said although Bangladesh has designed many strong and promising poverty-reduction plans over the years, their implementation has remained 'very poor' ...

Bangladesh has been dealing with rising inequality for nearly two decades, but the World Bank warns that the current pressures -- such as inflation and slow wage growth --- are speeding up the trend.