new poor in Bangladesh

Opinion / The lingering trails of poverty in Bangladesh

While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.

National Budget FY2023-24 / Three perils unaddressed in the new budget

It is not clear how the money needed to implement this ambitious budget will be sourced.

Are we overlooking the new poor?

Latest BIDS survey on poverty deserves appropriate policy attention

51% of Dhaka's total poor are new: BIDS survey

Fifty-one per cent of the total poor in 2022 were new as the dragging fallout of the coronavirus pandemic took its toll on the country, according to a survey of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).

April 4, 2024
April 4, 2024

The lingering trails of poverty in Bangladesh

While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.

June 4, 2023
June 4, 2023

Three perils unaddressed in the new budget

It is not clear how the money needed to implement this ambitious budget will be sourced.

May 19, 2023
May 19, 2023

Are we overlooking the new poor?

Latest BIDS survey on poverty deserves appropriate policy attention

May 17, 2023
May 17, 2023

51% of Dhaka's total poor are new: BIDS survey

Fifty-one per cent of the total poor in 2022 were new as the dragging fallout of the coronavirus pandemic took its toll on the country, according to a survey of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).

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