Jailed Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is celebrated around the world for helping millions of people out of poverty. Jailed Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is ...

Inequality is delivering a dual blow to Bangladesh's poorest families: children are nearly twice as likely to die before age ...

Bangladesh’s economy today is not collapsing; it is undergoing a difficult but necessary reconstruction after more than a ...

Bangladeshi Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus (C) is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering microfinance bank - Copyright AFP Munir UZ ...

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension—long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to ...

DHAKA, July 15 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund urged Bangladesh on Tuesday to curb inflation, saying spiralling costs would hurt the nation's poor hardest. "Any further sustained increases ...

A Nobel Prize winner known as the “banker of the poor” has emerged as a front-runner to lead Bangladesh after weeks of violent unrest forced the prime minister to resign. Mohammed Shahabuddin, ...

Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed on Wednesday said although Bangladesh has designed many strong and promising poverty-reduction plans over the years, their implementation has remained 'very poor' ...

Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus talks to NBC News about the legal charges he is facing in his home country of Bangladesh, despite the fact that “the whole world ...

Retired private job holder Nahid Miah finds it ‘amazing’ how Bangladesh’s annual budget continues to be a boon for the country’s rich people at the expense of ordinary, poor masses who struggle to ...

Speakers called for urgent policy reforms and structural upgrades to help Bangladesh expand beyond readymade garments ...

Jailed Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is celebrated around the world for helping millions of people out of poverty, but at home in Bangladesh he has a powerful enemy. The Barron's ...