While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.

It is not clear how the money needed to implement this ambitious budget will be sourced.

Latest BIDS survey on poverty deserves appropriate policy attention

Fifty-one per cent of the total poor in 2022 were new as the dragging fallout of the coronavirus pandemic took its toll on the country, according to a survey of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).