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

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

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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 ...

A village in a poor region in Bangladesh has become notorious for the kidney trade. The village of Baiguni, which is located ...

The government has declared 43 types of work as hazardous for children—jobs that threaten their physical and mental ...

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 global lender found that 54% of electricity subsidies go to the top 40% income group, who typically live in larger homes and use more electricity due to higher ownership of appliances and air ...

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