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 ...

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 ...

It has been widely demonstrated that women's economic empowerment contributes to GDP growth and a more equitable society.

The United States' levying a reciprocal tariff of 35 percent on Bangladeshi exports is a harsh economic blow, especially to ...

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

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 ...

In 2011, Bangladesh’s government-controlled central bank removed Yunus as managing director of Grameen Bank, saying he had exceeded the mandatory retirement age. Muhammad Yunus leaves a court in ...