poverty

Many lower-income countries like India have resorted to issuing domestic debts to meet their financing needs – often without reporting these instruments. Photo: Bloomberg
Thoughts

Tackling the world’s hidden-debt problem

Among the debt challenges facing low-income countries, strengthening the transparency of sovereign debt stands out as one where concrete and meaningful progress is within reach

Poverty rate 19%, safety net coverage 34%. Who are the extras?
Economy

Poverty rate 19%, safety net coverage 34%. Who are the extras?

People shopping on Oxford Street in central London, Britain, December 20, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
Global Economy

Record number of UK children in poverty

Speakers adress the challenges, particularly the worsened socioeconomic inequalities, and lessons that can be learned from Bangladesh’s experience in living through a polycrisis such as the pandemic during the "Knowledge, Power, and Change in Polycrisis: Lessons from Bangladesh for the World" conference, jointly organised by CLEAR, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), Brac University, and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

Covid-19 induced poverty surged in Bangladesh: Study

Represenattional image. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Low-income groups reel under unbridled prices

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Bangladesh

Income inequality rises amid declining poverty: BBS report

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World+Biz

Over 1 in 5 children in world's richest countries live in poverty: UNICEF

Break the cycle of poverty, integrate marginalised people: Planning minister
Bangladesh

Break the cycle of poverty, integrate marginalised people: Planning minister

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a statement during the opening of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit 2023, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 18, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar
World+Biz

World leaders warn goals to fight hunger, poverty, climate change in peril

FILE PHOTO: A malnourished girl lies on a bed at the malnutrition treatment ward of al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen October 27, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo
Global Economy

More than 700 million people don't know when — or if — they will eat again, UN food chief says

Myanmar Rohingya refugee children wait in a queue to collect food a refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: KM Asad/ Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2020
World+Biz

More than 330 million children still in extreme poverty: Unicef

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Global Economy

Pandemic, inflation push 68 million more in Asia into extreme poverty: ADB

TBS Illustration
Education

School feeding programme targets 35 lakh kids in poverty-prone areas