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Workers paints the lane markings on newly constructed Ashram flyover extension at Ring Road in New Delhi on 5 March. Photo: Hindustan Times/Getty Images

'Poverty-Pause' to help debt-heavy nations weather shocks

Climate vulnerable countries are already looking to introduce debt contract clauses that allow them to suspend repayments when natural disasters strike. The UN now wants these pauses to apply to...

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Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023: How relevant is it for Bangladesh?

Zahid Hussain. Illustration: TBS

The villain is winning!

That would mean that 9.1-9.4% of the world’s population would be living under extreme poverty this year, about the same as 2017’s 9.2% and representing the first rise in the extreme poverty percentage in about 20 years Photo: Collected

165 million people fell into poverty in 3 years of crisis: UN

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Global goals on fighting poverty, inequality in peril: UN

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War-induced price shocks push 3m people into poverty: BIDS

Planning minister for wealth creation to alleviate discrimination

Planning minister for wealth creation to alleviate discrimination

Rangpur still remains the poorest division, Mymensingh follows: BBS

Rangpur still remains the poorest division, Mymensingh follows: BBS

Poverty rate declined but not the poor

Poverty rate declined but not the poor

Illustration: TBS

Poor people will be more stressed

Internally displaced Syrians walk together near tents at a camp in Azaz, Syria,1 March, 2022. Photo: Reuters

130 mln Arab population in poverty: UN survey

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A new turn in PKSF, EU's joint efforts to eradicate poverty

A starving refugee family counting their days for the war to end so they can return home. Photo: Collected

The unfortunate people who carry the wounds of the war