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Bangladesh’s post pandemic recovery faces continued headwinds in FY24. Economic conditions worsened in FY23 as inflation increased and the balance of payments deficit widened. The introduction of a multiple...

South Asia is expected to remain the world’s fastest-growing region, thanks to robust growth in India. However, this strong outlook is deceptive. For most countries, growth is still below...

Using newly available customs data from Bangladesh, along with additional administrative and survey data, this study examines how variation in import tariffs on key agricultural inputs...

This report highlights the role of food and diets for improved nutrition outcomes in Bangladesh and assesses the current gaps and constraints towards improving diets for better nutrition. The report takes...

Highlights: The special focus of this report deals with challenges related to poverty reduction. Preliminary analysis of the 2022 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) provides new data...

At just under six percent, South Asia is expected to grow faster than any other developing country region this year—but slower than its pre-pandemic pace and not...

This is the third in a series of three technical briefs produced by the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice to share results of a multi-country data harmonization exercise concerning forcibly...

Highlights: Across goods categories, inflation of food items has gone up or stayed high, while energy-related inflation has mostly come down more, compared...

Bangladesh navigated the COVID-19 pandemic with prudent macroeconomic policies, and real GDP growth rebounded to 7.1 percent in FY22. The recovery benefited from containment of the COVID-19 pandemic, resurgence...

Focus: Chapter 3 of the report deals more specifically with the strategy for building resilience in the agricultural sector. Key messages of this chapter are as follows: While the agricultural...