Given the challenges that our economy is going through, the government needs to prioritise its development targets.

In a record inequality gap, the top five percent of Bangladesh's income earners have taken home 121 times more than the bottom five percent of the population in 2016, up from 31.5 times in 2010.

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics unveiled the report “Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2016” on October 17. It is the most exhaustive nationwide survey carried out and is usually brought out every five years or so.