Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman sought a USD 2 billion fund from development partners to meet the country's immediate energy needs...

Yunus, who started as a Professor at national and international Universities, earned the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for women's empowerment thr...

Jailed Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is celebrated globally for his efforts to alleviate poverty. However, in his home ...

Yunus, 83, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering micro-credit bank, but he has fallen out with Prime Ministe...

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a media briefing, that the first meeting with the South Asian countries on anti-epi...

Despite its struggles in manufacturing, India is growing rapidly -- even faster than Bangladesh, in most years.

The point most intellectuals and columnists miss is that poverty and inequality are two very different things which often do not coincide.

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Bangladesh’s economy was the second fastest growing economy in 2016 with a 7.1% growth ...

Poverty alleviation has been high on the Hasina government's development agenda as is evident in all plan documents.

Zaigham Khan advised the newly elected Prime Minister and the ruling party of Pakistan to follow the Bangladesh model of development instea...

Stating that India does not need MNCs, Ramdev said today India is self-reliant as far as science and technology, capital and resources are ...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has emphasised that Bangladesh is a secular country where people are free to practice their religio...

The organisers said the dignitaries will participate in the festival to "voice tangible commitments that could affect the lives of 50 milli...

Describing Bangladesh as a "very important" partner for the World Bank, Jim Young Kim said the World Bank has zero tolerance for corruption.

India reduced multidimensional poverty more than 50% faster than it reduced income poverty in absolute as well as relative terms, the Unive...

Bangladeshi economist and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has warned his country is likely to be badly hit by the global financial crisis.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus told the head of the World Bank on Sunday that its failure to modernise anti-poverty lending prog...