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Jan 15, 2024 · Here's how a community in Bangladesh saved its life-giving forest. Crop insurance is also crucial, to support farmers to absorb increasing climate shocks. More than half the world’s countries have government agriculture insurance programmes, and most of those subsidize premiums. Only four countries in Africa, however, have them.
Jan 6, 2022 · As Bangladesh prepares to release a new five-year national power plan early next year, researchers are urging the government to boost clean energy and pursue policies that would help secure a green and socially just transition for the South Asian nation. Today, only about 3.5% of the country's power comes from renewable sources, a figure the ...
Oct 2, 2019 · Our Bangladesh National Digital Architecture (BNDA), which ensures interoperability, won a World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) award this year and WSIS has recognized Bangladesh for different e-government or digital government initiatives for the past six years in a row.
Jan 18, 2022 · 4 things to know about financing sustainable development. Since its founding in 1971, Bangladesh has emerged from overwhelming poverty to be proclaimed by The World Bank in 2020 as 'a model for poverty reduction'. It achieved the highest cumulative GDP growth globally from 2010 to 2020 and is now on course to become a developed country by 2041.
Jul 14, 2021 · Evidence suggests that Bangladeshi families continue to invest more in post-primary education for boys. Industries with higher numbers of female workers are facing the prospect of increased automation, eliminating up to 60% of jobs over the next 20 years. World Bank projects are helping improve women's prospects in the country.
Feb 16, 2024 · Bangladesh’s GDP grew from $18 billion in 1980 to $460 billion in 2022 and it is today among the world’s most important textile and apparel exporters. Now, IFC is helping to accelerate what may be the next great industrial transformation. This evolution looks southward toward Africa, where circumstances are ripe for sustainable and ...
Nov 19, 2019 · Bangladesh has been classed by the United Nations as one of the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) since 1975, but its current trajectory means it is likely to shed that description by 2024. Graduating from LDC status is a sign that a country’s per capita gross national income, human assets, and resilience to economic and environmental shocks are robust enough to enable sustainable ...
Sep 16, 2021 · Detailed country research by The Global Hunger Index (2018) classifies food security concerns in Bangladesh as ‘serious’. As the chart below shows, a lack of nutritional food causes stunting in 36.1% of the child population and wasting in 14.3% of children. Child mortality as a result of malnutrition stood at 3.4% in 2018.
Oct 4, 2019 · Since 2009, Bangladesh’s economy has grown by 188% in size. Our per-capita income has surpassed $1,909. Our agriculture production is no longer about subsistence. Beyond self-sufficiency, we are now the fourth-largest rice produce, second-largest in jute producer, fourth-largest in mango production, fifth-largest in vegetable production and ...
Jun 16, 2020 · Figures released by Bangladesh Bank show that year-on-year remittances for the month fell by 25%, indicating that the World Bank’s projection is, unfortunately, likely to hold true. The drop in these payments, which have traditionally averaged between $300 and $600 a month, will represent a significant loss to millions of household incomes in Bangladesh.
