As Bangladesh’s plain terrain is crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers and canals, bridges play a critical part in the country’s road transport system. For every 4.5 km of roads in unions or upazilas, a bridge...
Type: BriefReport#: 186705Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In the last decade, Bangladesh achieved a more than fourfold increase in electricity generation capacity and delivered electricity connections to more than 99 percent of its population. The Bangladesh...
Type: BriefReport#: 186700Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Conscious of both its increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels, the Government of Bangladesh committed to achieving an ambitious climate change agenda. The government revised its Nationally Determined...
Type: BriefReport#: 186702Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has made great strides in developing an extensive road transport system. Yet, poor quality of construction and maintenance of the primary, secondary and tertiary road network is common, resulting...
Type: BriefReport#: 186706Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In recent years, the manufacturing - particularly the readymade garments (RMG) sector - has been a major driver of the economic growth. It employs more than four million workers, most of whom are women,...
Type: BriefReport#: 186724Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
As per World Bank estimates, air pollution and lead exposure are responsible for more than one-fifth of the premature deaths in Bangladesh (2019). Strong environmental regulations, strict environmental...
Type: BriefReport#: 186732Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has shown great generosity by providing shelter to around 1.1 million Displaced Rohingya People (DRP) in Cox’s Bazar district. This has placed immense strain on existing infrastructure and social...
Type: BriefReport#: 186735Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
With the rapid economic progress in recent decades, and increasing adoption of technological solutions by major industries, Bangladesh will need to prepare its youth, the new entrants in the job market...
Type: BriefReport#: 186678Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Despite Bangladesh’s success in reducing poverty, a significant number of people still live below and around the poverty line. The Government of Bangladesh currently implements several cash transfer programs...
Type: BriefReport#: 186686Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The First Green and Climate Resilient Development (GCRD) Credit is a significant step by Bangladesh to embrace a future that is both clean, efficient, and prepared for the challenges of climate change....
Type: BriefReport#: 186718Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is among most disaster-prone countries in the world. It is highly exposed to a variety of hazards such as floods, cyclones, and earthquakes. The Government of Bangladesh has instituted disaster...
Type: BriefReport#: 186721Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Demand for higher education has been rising in Bangladesh. In recent years, the changing nature of work, along with technological acceleration, has increased the demand for high-level skills and technically...
Type: BriefReport#: 186679Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
While Bangladesh significantly increased power generation capacity and access to electricity in recent years, the country still faces challenges to ensure quality and reliability of power supply. Unreliable...
Type: BriefReport#: 186698Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
During the COVID-19 pandemic, communities around Bangladeshi cities and towns experienced highly negative health impacts, jobs and livelihood losses, and a deterioration of basic services. Urban local...
Type: BriefReport#: 186717Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Microenterprises diversify economic activity and contribute significantly to poverty alleviation. In Bangladesh, half of population depend on 9 million existing microenterprises for their livelihoods....
Type: BriefReport#: 186731Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The document collection provides an overview of the economic situation in a specific country in January 2024. It covers various aspects such as industrial production, retail sales, international trade,...
Type: BriefReport#: 187955Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
As Bangladesh aspires to move up the value chain and become an upper middle-income country, there have to be significant gains in quality and relevance of skills imparted by the secondary education system....
Type: BriefReport#: 186681Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is well placed to play an important role in regional trade and logistics networks, and as a transit country in South Asia. There are corridors and associated border crossing points that connect...
Type: BriefReport#: 186704Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is known for its pioneering approaches that support Micro Enterprises (MEs) to alleviate poverty. Microenterprises contribute up to 25 percent of GDP and provide 56 percent of jobs in the country,...
Type: BriefReport#: 186715Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Bangladesh economy has undergone important structural shifts, and the industrial sector has become a large contributor to growth and employment. The Export Competitiveness for Jobs (EC4J) project directly...
Type: BriefReport#: 186719Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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