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South Asia can generate millions of jobs through agriculture sector: World Bank GroupWith agriculture sector employing around 43 per cent of the South Asian workforce, the region has strong potential to emerge as a global le...- Border villages in WB's Murshidabad caught in whirlpool of infiltration politics, identity fearsIllegal immigration from Bangladesh dominates politics in Murshidabad's border areas. Parties debate infiltration, identity cards, and demo...
- Sri Lanka among worst impacted countries in Asia-Pacific due to West Asia conflict: UN reportIn light of the West Asia crisis, a recent UN report underscores the profound economic challenges facing Sri Lanka. The country is grapplin...
- Bangladesh seeks $2 billion from development partners to meet energy demandBangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman sought a USD 2 billion fund from development partners to meet the country's immediate energy needs...
- Mohammad Yunus: Professor's journey to becoming Bangladesh head via 'Banker to the Poor' NobelYunus, who started as a Professor at national and international Universities, earned the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for women's empowerment thr...
- Muhammad Yunus: Bangladesh's 'banker to the poor'Jailed Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is celebrated globally for his efforts to alleviate poverty. However, in his home ...
- Bangladesh hands Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus $1.1m tax billYunus, 83, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering micro-credit bank, but he has fallen out with Prime Ministe...
- China holds first meeting with South Asian countries on COVID-19, poverty relief cooperationChinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a media briefing, that the first meeting with the South Asian countries on anti-epi...
- It's Bangladesh versus India in the development raceDespite its struggles in manufacturing, India is growing rapidly -- even faster than Bangladesh, in most years.
- View: To call inequality India's main problem is to miss the whole pictureThe point most intellectuals and columnists miss is that poverty and inequality are two very different things which often do not coincide.
- At current pace, Bangladesh to end extreme poverty by 2021According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Bangladesh’s economy was the second fastest growing economy in 2016 with a 7.1% growth ...
- Bangladesh PM pushes development agenda; eyes to eradicate extreme poverty by 2021Poverty alleviation has been high on the Hasina government's development agenda as is evident in all plan documents.
- Pakistani journalist suggests PM Imran Khan to follow Bangladesh’s development modelZaigham Khan advised the newly elected Prime Minister and the ruling party of Pakistan to follow the Bangladesh model of development instea...
- MNCs have sleepless nights because of Patanjali: RamdevStating that India does not need MNCs, Ramdev said today India is self-reliant as far as science and technology, capital and resources are ...
- Bangladesh is a secular country: Sheikh HasinaBangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has emphasised that Bangladesh is a secular country where people are free to practice their religio...
- Narendra Modi to attend global citizen festival in New York City's Central Park during US visitThe organisers said the dignitaries will participate in the festival to "voice tangible commitments that could affect the lives of 50 milli...
- World Bank finalises plans to lend $2.7 billion for investment in BangladeshDescribing Bangladesh as a "very important" partner for the World Bank, Jim Young Kim said the World Bank has zero tolerance for corruption.
- India made progress in cutting multidimensional poverty: StudyIndia reduced multidimensional poverty more than 50% faster than it reduced income poverty in absolute as well as relative terms, the Unive...
- Global financial meltdown to hit poor: YunusBangladeshi economist and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has warned his country is likely to be badly hit by the global financial crisis.
- Yunus criticises World Bank for failure to cut povertyNobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus told the head of the World Bank on Sunday that its failure to modernise anti-poverty lending prog...
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