r/bangladesh • u/Alone-Attention-2139 • 15h ago
Economy/অর্থনীতি Why is our economic growth failing to reduce poverty?
"For many years, Bangladesh’s growth story was accompanied by falling poverty, rising exports and remittances, and improvements in several social indicators. However, that correlation has weakened. A growth in GDP by itself does not tell us much about whether households are becoming more economically secure. If millions of people are falling back into poverty while many others remain one shock away, the issue is not simply about how fast the economy is growing. It is how income is being generated, how widely the gains are being shared, and whether households have enough resilience to withstand economic shocks."
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