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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.
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.
Sep 3, 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.
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.
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.
Jun 1, 2022 · Bangladesh. Water holes in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts region were drying up. A group of residents investigated the problem and found that water sources stayed intact where there was good forest cover. They identified the community members involved in forest destruction and offered them funds to start their own vegetable gardens ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oct 3, 2019 · Nobody disputes the economic credentials of Sheikh Hasina’s government - the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is the latest member of a growing list of international institutions attesting to Bangladesh’s economic success. The ADB ranked Bangladesh as the fastest-growing economy in the Asia-Pacific region, eclipsing China, Vietnam and India.
