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Bad roads cost Bangladesh over $10 billion annually and trap millions in poverty. The deeper costs of a broken transport system—missed schooldays, maternal deaths, farm losses—reveal a nation stalled ...

Despite a recent marginal dip in the national inflation rate, persistently high prices continue to inflict significant hardship on lower and middle-income households across Bangladesh, severely ...

In 1985, seven South Asian countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka — came ...

The Philippines economy posted robust growth in early 2010, in part due to large one-off factors. As did many countries in ...

Child marriage is closely linked to high adolescent pregnancy rates. Girls under 18 have little control over their ...

Spain will host a UN conference next week seeking fresh backing for development aid as swingeing cuts led by US President Donald Trump and global turmoil hinder progress on fighting ...

The Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford recently published the World Happiness Report 2025. Finland took ...

Some forms of subsidies will always prevail in any economy, but the extent and the depth of subsidies should not reach such a level where it becomes an unbearable burden on the economy ...

Climate change is rapidly becoming a threat multiplier for Bangladesh's poor, pushing millions deeper into poverty and increasing their vulnerability to future shocks, warns the Bangladesh Poverty ...