The question we must confront is not simply why poverty reversal (when decreasing poverty levels start to rise) is happening, ...

Bangladesh's success in reducing poverty since the 1990s was a global case study. The combination of a booming garment ...

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese government has led the people in an unswerving advancement of poverty reduction. Particularly since the 18th National Congress of the ...

Dhaka, July 31 -- One in every four people in Bangladesh is living in multidim ensional poverty, according to a report. The Mmatest Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2019 report is the latest in ...

The slowdown in inflation is expected to be supported by improved monetary policy transmission and the easing of import restrictions, says the World Bank's Bangladesh Development Update.

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 ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus takes over as the head of Bangladesh's caretaker government on Thursday at a time when the country is facing tough economic ...

LONDON (Reuters)- Bangladesh has had 40 years of exceptional progress in health, with infant mortality down, life expectancy up and good disease control, all despite being one of the world's poorest ...

The leaders say they won’t accept a military-led or supported government. Yunus, the student-backed head of the interim government, is an 84-year-old social entrepreneur and banker who won the 2006 ...

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 ...