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.

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 ...

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 ...

In Bangladesh, air pollution caused over 159,000 premature deaths and 2.5 billion days of illness, with estimated health costs equivalent to 8.3 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019.

The government’s own analysis shows that up to 800,000 people will no longer be eligible to receive PIP and that the changes could lead to 200,000 more people (50,000 of them children) in ...

It can show palpable results in helping vulnerable people solve very practical problems. Banerjee and Duflo are at its center. They founded the organization in 2003 as the Poverty Action Lab, along ...