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Bangladesh 32nd in world’s fragile state

Bangladesh is ranked 32nd in the list of fragile states, according to the newly released Fragile States Index (FSI) by the Fund for Peace. The annual FSI was published on Fund for Peace’s website highlighting global political, economic and social pressures experienced by the states. fragile stateAccording to the report, among the 178 countries in the list, seven out of ten top fragile states are from Africa: South Sudan (1st), Somalia (2nd), Central African Republic (3rd), Sudan (4...

How Bangladesh became a model for reducing hunger

A recent UN report on global hunger highlights Bangladesh – a onetime food basket case – for having cut chronic hunger by more than half since 2000.

Four decades ago, the newly formed and desperately poor South Asian nation of Bangladesh saw its already-high levels of extreme poverty and chronic hunger skyrocket with floods, leading to the Bangladesh famine of 1974. street-children-300x196Farmers and farmland were swallowed up in rampaging waters, distribution of the imported ...

Indo-Bangla Rail Project on track

National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog will hold a meeting in New Delhi on June 18 in a bid to break the deadlock on the proposed India-Bangladesh railway project, Tripura Transport Minister Manik Dey said today. “NITI Aayog has called a meeting on Thursday (June 18) to break the deadlock on the 15-km Agartala-Akhaura rail project along Tripura,” Mr Dey told reporters here. Meanwhile, a senior state official said that the central government was “yet to provide funds for the project”. trainNITI Aayog’s chief executive officer...

Govt to further strengthen delta management with WB, Netherlands

The government of Bangladesh signed an agreement on Tuesday with the Netherlands and the World Bank Group including its private sector arm, International Finance Corporation (IFC) with the 2030 Water Resources Group to strengthen management of the Bangladesh Delta, Asia’s largest and the world’s most populated delta. The partnership will help to develop and implement the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, a long term and holistic vision for the Bangladesh Delta, and help to realize Bangladesh’s goal of becoming a middle-income country by 2021 while maintaining the unique biodiversity and physical characteristics of the delta.

Reducing violence against women through religious leaders

The Asia Foundation Bangladesh, with support from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), organized project-closing workshop on “Reducing Violence against Women through Religious Leaders in Rangpur” initiative on Tuesday at Baridhara in the capital featuring 60 participants from Rangpur and Dhaka, and discussants from University of Dhaka, BRAC University and Development Research Initiative (DRI). 08To address this issues, The Asia Foundation (the Foundation) initiated a project on Reducing Violence against Women (RVAW) in Rangpur S...

Revenue, investment major challenges: WB

Financing may be a major constraint for implementation of the proposed budget, in view of revenue earning scenario, the World Bank said on Monday. It observed that the government’s growth target may also be affected by investment shortage and persistent weakness in business regulation and service delivery. In its budget analysis, the lending agency stuck to its earlier projection of Bangladesh growth at 6.3 per cent for 2015-16 fiscal year, as against the budget target of 7 per cent. wbThe WB earlier estimated the GDP growth for 2014-15 fiscal at 5.6...
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