Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
A subcommittee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) showing his concerns on the transparency of poverty survey conducted by BISP authorities has asked the authorities concerned to conduct a fresh survey within three months. A subcommittee meeting of the Public Accounts Committee was held at Parliament House under the chair …
The aim of this policy brief is to spread the word about forest and farm producer organizations and their increasing role in helping smallholders improve their economic and social well-being while managing their resources sustainably. The brief sets out a roadmap by which an international partnership can boost support for …
The Green Growth Best Practice (GGBP) initiative has issued a report to help governments transition their economies successfully to climate compatible development.
The project aims to support the government in achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 Sharmin, 15, was the class topper in Class IX. During the 2011 flood, she contracted high fever and visited a quack who prescribed medication worth Tk8,000, which failed …
India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the largest public-works based employment programme in the world. Unanimously enacted by the Indian parliament in 2005, implementation began in February 2006. With an annual budget of six billion US dollars, it now supports some fifty million rural people – …
Butana is a dry plateau in northern Sudan, east of the river Nile. Covering 65,000 square kilometres, less than 10% can be described as ‘woodland’ in the vaguest sense of the word, and even these trees are disappearing rapidly. The Butana Integrated Rural Development Project began in 2008 with the …
This report describes the progress African countries are making on strengthening the quality of policies and institutions that underpin development. It presents Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) scores for the 39 African countries that are eligible for support from the International Development Association (IDA). This year's report expands coverage …
The visiting regional director of UNDP, Haol ang Xu, on a five-day visit, here, Tuesday, applauded Bangladesh’s efforts in cutting down urban poverty by 13 percent in the last four years. “Urban poverty in seven major cities and towns came down from 42 percent to 29 percent during the period,” …
This paper explores the nature, significance and policy implications of spillovers in international corporate taxation—the effects of one country’s rules and practices on others. It complements current initiatives focused on tax avoidance by multinationals, notably the G20-OECD project on Base Erosion and Profit shifting (BEPS). The paper draws on the …
The government aims at alleviating poverty further in five districts of Rangpur division by creating employment opportunities under the new phase of a poverty alleviation scheme. Completion of the second phase of the project styled ‘Ensuring employment for the poor in Northern Region Programme’ will require Tk 94.88 crore. The …
Manila based multi-lateral funding body Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday said it would realign its operations in the Asia-Pacific region to give a thrust to inclusiveness, saying the region continues to face huge poverty challenges. "The Asia-Pacific region is changing fast- and so must ADB. The challenge for ADB …
A sum of Rs94.977 billion have been spent on alleviation of poverty from the country from the year 2008 to 2013, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatisation Muhammad Ishaq Dar said Wednesday. In a written reply to the question of Ms Khalida Mansoor in National Assembly, he …
Bangladesh has launched the third phase of 'Sharique', a programme for promoting local governance with assistance from Switzerland with an particular objective of fighting poverty, reports BSS. "The new phase will be implemented by a consortium comprising the HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation (HSI) and the Institute of Governance Studies (IGS) of …
With the appointment of community organizers in state municipal councils, plans are afoot to set up women run self-help groups for door-to-door collection of garbage, its segregation and recycling. The Goa state urban development agency (GSUDA) has appointed Vasco-based Celsa Antao as project officer to implement the centrally-sponsored Swarna Jayanti …
The rural development ministry has come out with a new base and revised index for determining wages under its flagship rural job guarantee scheme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. The move will address the concerns of at least a dozen states where NREGA wages are lower than …
India has made encouraging progress by halving its official poverty rate, from 45 percent of the population in 1994 to 22 percent in 2012. This is an achievement to be celebrated—yet it also gives the nation an opportunity to set higher aspirations. While the official poverty line counts only those …
The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) has selected six union councils here for work for poverty alleviation with the financial assistance of Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF). In a briefing to mediapersons, AKRSP regional programme manager Sardar Ayub and PPAF project manager Imtiaz Ahmed said that the initiative would …
The consistent official methodology and Pakistan Living Standards Measurement (PLSM) Survey data have registered a decline in poverty headcount from 34.5% to 12.4 % in ten years. However, a Technical Group on Poverty has been set-up by Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms to review official methodology for poverty estimation …
The government would prepare a database for the people and their households by conducting a census aimed at identifying the real status of their poverty, officials said Monday. The national statistical body --- Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) --- will conduct the census across the country by December 2017. "We …
Economic inequality is rapidly increasing in the majority of countries. The wealth of the world is divided in two: almost half going to the richest one percent; the other half to the remaining 99 percent. The World Economic Forum has identified this as a major risk to human progress. Extreme …
