51% urban poor ‘new poor’: BIDS

Binayak Sen said in his speech, during the pandemic many children left the school. This trend was greater among low-income households. The Director General of BIDS said that the social security measures in the cities are limited, therefore more attention needs to be paid to this area. The chief guest of the program was Planning […]

The last census data shows that the population of Bangladesh has reached around 170m.

Planning Minister MA Mannan, Minister of State for Planning Shamsul Alam, BIDS Director General Binayak Sen and BBS Director General Matiur Rahman, among others attended the data release event. The Sixth National Census and House Enumeration activities began simultaneously across the country on 15 June and continued till 28 June. According to a summary released […]

Budget faces stagnation challenge

The taking flight rate of stagnation poses a vast plea prior to a economy, origination it formidable for a supervision to finalize mercantile measures for 2011-12. According to a Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), a rate of stagnation has increasing to about twenty-nine per cent in a final 4 years to 2010.There have been some-more […]