Despite Bangladesh’s strong national poverty reduction, research by IUBAT scholars shows that nearly half the population in ...

Catechist, Ananda Tripura, often journeys on foot along poor roads and crosses rivers by boat to offer spiritual and pastoral care to tribal Catholic families in remote villages in southeastern ...

Bangladesh poverty maps showing national estimates for wealth index (A), progress out of poverty index (B), and household income (C). Maps were generated using mobile data, satellite data, and ...

In 1972, a year after Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan, he returned to teach at Chittagong University. But disaster soon struck. A severe famine swept the country in 1974, wiping out an ...

One of the worst industrial disasters in the modern era took place in Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing more than 1,100 people and injuring some 2,500 ...

Zia Led Bangladesh Across Its Most Decisive Economic Threshold. History seldom favors leaders who fail to script their own ...

NEW DELHI, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus takes over as the head of Bangladesh's caretaker government on Thursday at a time when the country is facing tough ...

Deceased former prime minister quietly lifted millions out of poverty through pragmatic, modernizing economic policies ...