The World Bank’s newly released “Bangladesh Poverty and Inequality Assessment Report 2025” discusses the country’s growing ...

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

Through the Nuton Jubon Livelihood Project, women have started their own agricultural/fisheries livelihood enterprises. Photo courtesy: Social Development Foundation (SDF) The World Bank-supported ...

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

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

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 ...

Prior to the political unrest of 2024, Bangladesh was also not on a strong economic path. This was despite 2022, when the country recorded a 7.10 percent GDP growth rate (Bangladesh Bureau of ...

The fastest path to reducing poverty and inequality is through job creation, particularly for youth, women, and vulnerable populations. A business-as-usual approach will not suffice; instead, comprehe ...

Bangladesh poverty maps showing national estimates for wealth index (A), progress out of poverty index (B), and household income (C). Maps were generated using mobile data, satellite data, and ...

One of the worst industrial disasters in the modern era took place in Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing more than 1,100 people and injuring some 2,500 ...

In 1972, a year after Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan, he returned to teach at Chittagong University. But disaster soon struck. A severe famine swept the country in 1974, wiping out an ...

Bangladesh must shift its economic focus to job creation for youth, women, and vulnerable populations to accelerate the pace of poverty reduction and address rising inequality, according to a new ...