Poverty doubles to 42%; 28.5% Bangladeshis extremely poor: survey
Published 24 Jan,2021 via The Financial Express - Upper poverty rate in Bangladesh almost doubled to 42 per cent in December 2020 from 21.6 per cent in 2018 for Covid-19, according to a latest household survey.
Lower or extreme poverty rate also increased in the meantime from 9.4 per cent in 2018 to 28.5 per cent in 2020, it showed.
The survey, conducted by the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM), was published on Saturday.
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