By Akhter Ahmed, Country Representative, IFPRI-Bangladesh The latest findings from the 2022 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in December 2023, reveal remarkable reductions in poverty... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
27.51 lakh Bangladeshis go below poverty line for food price hike, economic slowdown: IFPRI researcher
The poverty situation in Bangladesh was higher than expected in 2020-21 as the COVID constrained economic activity and reduced incomes. The situation worsened further amid spirals in global food prices in 2022. And the global economic slowdown could pu... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
Global Food Policy Report 2023 launched
The International Food Policy Research Institute has published the Global Food Policy Report 2023 at Kathmandu in Nepal. IFPRI’s South Asia Regional Office, in partnership with the Institute for Integrated Development Studies, the Bay of Bengal Initiat... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
Food inflation rate in BD lower than in Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Report
In September 2022, the year-on-year consumer inflation rate for food was 66 per cent in Sri Lanka, 36 per cent in Pakistan, and about 8 per cent in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The inflation in Pakistan and Sri Lanka is attributed mainly to macroeconom... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
Blog – Resilience and COVID-19: Insights into fish and shrimp value chains in Bangladesh
By Razin Iqbal Kabir1, Sudha Narayanan1, Nahian Bin Khaled2, and Shahidur Rashid1 1 International Food Policy Research Institute 2 Michigan State University The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns disrupted agri-food value cha... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
