Poverty-elimination & infrastructural implications

World Bank reports 736 million people live in "extreme poverty" today, one-half in South Asia (Bangladesh and India), the other in Sub-Sahara Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Nigeria). Its 2018 "Poverty and Shared Poverty" report projects both Bangladesh and India will eradicate poverty by 2030: having come close...

Preparing young people for the job market

With regard to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Bangladesh is lagging behind on a number of core SDG indicators--including revenue generation and foreign direct investment, according to the latest SDG progress report of the country. Revenue generation is there in Goal 17 ('Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the...