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Bangabandhu Academy for Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development (বঙ্গবন্ধু দারিদ্র্য বিমোচন ও পল্লী উন্নয়ন একাডেমি) is a government academy and research institute with the mandate to decrease poverty in rural areas of Bangladesh and is located in ...
Palli Daridro Bimochon Foundation (PDBF), or Foundation for the Elimination of Rural Poverty, was established in 1999 by the Parliament of Bangladesh. It is a statutory, non-profit organization committed to promoting the economic and social advancement of society's poorest members.
Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics classic Progress and Poverty , are those that raise, or are intended to raise, ways of enabling the poor to ...
Given that Bangladesh continued to urbanize during this time, there are now more people living in extreme poverty in urban Bangladesh (3.3 million) than in 2010 (3 million). [17] Since independence the average rate of urbanization in Bangladesh is 5% [ 18 ] (World Bank 2012) & percentage share of urban population has doubled, from 15% in 1974 ...
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are documents required by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank before a country can be considered for debt relief within the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. [1] [2] PRSPs are also required before low-income countries can receive aid from most major donors and lenders. [2]
Few development initiatives have been evaluated as rigorously as CCT programs. [1] The implementation of conditional cash transfer programs has been accompanied by systematic efforts to measure their effectiveness and understand their broader impact on household behavior, [1] a marked departure from the limited attention that was paid to rigorous impact evaluations in the past.
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In the ending years of the 1970s, the seven inner South Asian nations that included Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, agreed upon the creation of a trade bloc and to provide a platform for the people of South Asia to work together in a spirit of friendship, trust, and understanding.