Poverty alleviation

Is the stone crushing job an opportunity for women? Perhaps, yes, but they do this work as the region they live in offers few other alternative earning sources for women. Photo: Mumit M
Panorama

How impoverished women keep the Nakugaon Port alive

Approximately 3,000 day labourers – mostly women – work gruelling hours at the stone crushing sites at Nakugan Port for Tk250 daily

Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

UNDP, Brac sign MoU to work on social protection

Abdullah Hil Rakib. TBS Sketch
Thoughts

Next 50 years of Bangladesh: Developing human capital is the key to success 

Rasheda Begum in her bean garden. She won the "Best Bean Farmer Award" in 2020. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

SMAP loans elevate 5 lakh farmer families from poverty

File Photo/ UNB
Economy

Next budget will focus on the poor: Finance minister

Kristof is enamored with Muhammed Yunus as the neoliberal guru of microfinance. But microfinance comes with its own share of unintended and intended consequences. Photo: Reuters
Panorama

Bangladesh: A cautionary tale of neoliberalism, not poverty alleviation