According to the World Bank, Bangladesh's GDP growth for the fiscal year 2024-25 (ending in June) is projected to plummet to ...

The national poverty rate has been projected to rise to 22.9 percent in 2025 The World Bank (WB) has forecast that another ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday said Bangladesh now stands at a turning point to forge a new social contract in ...

He further explained: "This example reassured me that all people are entrepreneurs. We are taught in textbooks that only a select few are born to be entrepreneurs while the rest must work under them.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday conveyed to the global audience that Bangladesh, now stands at a turning point ...

Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has emphasised that the world was transforming faster than previously imagined, driven by a ...

Bangladesh and the World Bank signed two financing agreements totaling $850 million on Wednesday to help the country develop ...

Academics at LSE have partnered with Brac to develop a strategy to identify the threshold. Their paper, Why do people stay poor?, evaluates Brac’s Targeting the Ultra-Poor (TUP) programme – a one-off ...

But his public profile in Bangladesh earned him the hostility ... years of experimenting with ways to provide credit for people too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans.

The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh is a micro-credit institution that lends small amounts of money to poor people who are ignored by the conventional banking system due to their lack of collateral.