The Government of Bangladesh currently implements several public workfare and humanitarian assistance programs to support the poorest populations during periods of seasonal unemployment and to provide...
Type: BriefReport#: 186685Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has made significant progress in economic growth and poverty reduction over the past decades. This has been accompanied by improvements in maternal and child health outcomes. Prevalence of stunting...
Type: BriefReport#: 186688Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has long been among the leading countries to expand off-grid solar home systems in the countryside. But the country has significant potential to scale up grid-connected renewable energy for...
Type: BriefReport#: 186699Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is a country known for its resilience and vibrant culture. But despite having a distinct advantage with its demographic dividend, the country is finding it challenging to harness the untapped...
Type: BriefReport#: 186680Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in improving key health indicators, including significantly reducing maternal mortality and under-5 child mortality. The progress is not uniform throughout the country...
Type: BriefReport#: 186682Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has made commendable progress over in achieving food security, despite frequent natural disasters and population growth. Food grain production has tripled between 1972 and 2014, from 9.8 to...
Type: BriefReport#: 186689Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The deepening relationship among the countries of eastern South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal) on regional trade and transport is reflected by the increasing number of regional and bilateral...
Type: BriefReport#: 186714Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has built an extensive network of cyclone shelters that has played a crucial role in the successful effort to protect people from the cyclones in the coastal area. The Multipurpose Disaster...
Type: BriefReport#: 186722Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh’s public financial management (PFM) reform journey started in 1989-1990 with the Committee on Reforms in Budgeting and Expenditure Control (CORBEC). In 1993, the government with donors’ technical...
Type: BriefReport#: 186726Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is a deltaic country consisting of floodplains created by over 400 rivers and channels. Flooding in Bangladesh is common, recurring with varying magnitude and intensity, affecting a greater...
Type: BriefReport#: 186733Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Education develops children’s latent capabilities, contributes to a skilled workforce and acts as a powerful tool for reducing poverty, increasing shared prosperity and boosting economic growth. Education...
Type: BriefReport#: 186676Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Livestock and Dairy Development Project (LDDP) aims to improve productivity, market access, and resilience of smallholder farmers and agro-entrepreneurs in the livestock and dairy sector. It focuses...
Type: BriefReport#: 186690Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh achieved its Millennium Development Goals targets of halving the population without access to improved drinking water sources three years ahead of time and showed impressive progress in sanitation...
Type: BriefReport#: 186694Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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
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
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
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