Bangladesh’s rural economy, and specifically agriculture, have been powerful drivers of poverty reduction in Bangladesh since 2000. Indeed, agriculture accounted for 90 percent of the reduction in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Bangladesh is the fourth-highest rice-producing country in the world, but much of that production is threatened by salinity. More than 30% of the ...

DHAKA, June 7, 2023 – The government of Bangladesh and the World Bank today signed two financing agreements totaling $858 million to enhance climate-resilient agricultural growth, food security, and ...

The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 35, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 75-86 (12 pages) This empirical study on factor substitution and technical change in Bangladesh agriculture uses the translog ...

One of the dominant aspects of the Bangladeshi economy is its structural change featuring a declining share of agriculture in GDP over the last four decades. The share of agriculture has declined from ...

India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the European Union, the US, and the UK all maintain dedicated agencies to forecast demand and production and guide policy accordingly.

Bhola, in southern Bangladesh, has been called climate change’s ‘ground zero’, where its effects add to impoverishment and ...