Poverty remains the biggest driver of school dropouts in Bangladesh, accounting for nearly two-thirds of cases among students enrolled in catch-up education programs, according to new Unicef-backed ...

Subir Marak is an irregular daily laborer in Telki village in Bangladesh’s central Tangail district who struggles every day to feed his three-member family. He earns 700 taka (US$8.25) on average when ...

TEKNAF, Bangladesh, July 20 (UNHCR) - For Bangladeshi women with pregnancy complications in this poverty-stricken area an emergency transfer to hospital is often beyond their budgets and can be ...

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 ...

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 ...