new poor in Bangladesh
The lingering trails of poverty in Bangladesh
While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.
4 April 2024
Three perils unaddressed in the new budget
It is not clear how the money needed to implement this ambitious budget will be sourced.
4 June 2023
Are we overlooking the new poor?
Latest BIDS survey on poverty deserves appropriate policy attention
19 May 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).
17 May 2023