Bangladesh’s poverty rate in 2016 may have been 1.7 to 2.3 percentage points higher than the rate estimated by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics while the extreme poverty rate may have been 3.5 to 3.7 percentage points lower, according to a survey by the World Bank..The findings of the s

The poverty rate in Bangladesh has declined to 18.7 per cent and the extreme poverty rate stood at 5.6 per cent, according to the latest data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

A political economy lens is needed to understand the current situation of Bangladesh.

Foreign Minister Dr AKM Abdul Momen said the present government with its sincere efforts has successfully reduced the poverty rate by 50 percent in the last 10 years.