In April 2024, IFPRI researcher Salauddin Tauseef and co-authors published the article, "Mobile phones, income diversification, and poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh" in Review of Development Economics. Abstract The widespread adoption of mobile phones presents the possibility of creating employment and self-employment opportunities. Although several studies have documented the impact of mobile phones on income, […]
Op-Ed: Agricultural growth key to accelerated poverty reduction in Bangladesh
By Akhter Ahmed, Country Representative, IFPRI-Bangladesh The latest findings from the 2022 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in December 2023, reveal remarkable reductions in poverty. The official headcount rate for moderate poverty (the proportion of people living below the upper poverty line) decreased by 23.0 per […]
US sanctions could threaten SDG financing: Economists
If the US imposes sanctions on Bangladesh centring the upcoming elections, it could seriously impact overall food security in the country, affecting financing for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), economists and experts have warned. Besides, slow global growth could push more people into poverty this year as well as malnutrition rate may also increase, they said […]
27.51 lakh Bangladeshis go below poverty line for food price hike, economic slowdown: IFPRI researcher
The poverty situation in Bangladesh was higher than expected in 2020-21 as the COVID constrained economic activity and reduced incomes. The situation worsened further amid spirals in global food prices in 2022. And the global economic slowdown could push more people into poverty this year. A researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) […]
2019 GFPR: Bangladesh excels in rural dev, food, nutrition security
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), an international agricultural research centre based in Washington, D.C., yesterday (Thursday) released its Global Food Policy Report 2019, which highlighted Bangladesh as one of South Asia’s leaders in improving rural development indicators and food and nutrition security. The report also pointed out the need to close persistent rural-urban […]