Using loopholes and fraud, brokers turn poverty in Bangladesh and demand for transplants in India into booming business.

Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty, supported by sustained economic growth. Based on the international poverty line of $1.90 per person per day, poverty declined from 44.2 ...

Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Group President End Poverty Day Dhaka, Bangladesh Prime Minister, Finance Minister, ladies and gentlemen, it is an honor to be here today in Bangladesh with you to celebrate ...

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 ...

In a nation often defined by resilience and reinvention, few stories echo louder than Bangladesh’s microfinance revolution.

The World Bank calls Bangladesh “an inspiring story of reducing poverty” — with 25 million Bangladeshis lifted from poverty over 15 years. The share of children stunted by malnutrition has ...

LONDON (Reuters)- Bangladesh has had 40 years of exceptional progress in health, with infant mortality down, life expectancy up and good disease control, all despite being one of the world’s … ...

Dhaka, June 19 -- 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’s poverty rate in 2016 may have been 1.7 to 2.3 percentage points higher than the rate estimated by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics while the extreme poverty rate may have been 3.5 to ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who created a nonprofit organization credited with helping more than 150 million people out of poverty was named the winner of the 2015 World Food Prize on ...