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Strong growth, driven by consumption and public investment, has continued. Macroeconomic stability is strained. Inflation has picked up, driven by food price increases initially and by non-food inflation more recently. Notwithstanding rebound in garment exports and remittances, the current...
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Bangladesh has maintained its robust growth performance. Exports and remittances have been buoyant. Agriculture had … expansion has been short of target as private sector credit growth slowed and the Bangladesh Bank siphoned off banking liquidity … future productivity growth. This report provides an assessment of the state of the Bangladesh economy, outlook, risks, and …
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Bangladesh economic expansion continued in FY19, supported by rising exports and record remittances. Inflation remained …. The current account deficit declined with higher export and lower import growth. Bangladesh Bank interventions moderated …
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-term policy and investment priorities that will support Bangladesh to continue progress in building resilience to the effects of … climate change. Section 1 describes Bangladesh's vulnerability to the effects of climate change and outlines estimates of the … cost of mitigation and adaptation investments through 2030. Section 2 lays out the Government of Bangladesh's existing …
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Bangladesh's development progress over the past decades has been remarkable. Bangladesh has been among the fastest … health outcomes. The next years will determine Bangladesh's longer term development trajectory. The milestones ahead reflect … the deep structural transformation of Bangladesh's economy over the past decades, but also serve as a reminder that …
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Private participation in infrastructure has taken two distinct forms in the developing world. The first model, applied primarily in Latin America, focuses on privatization of existing infrastructure assets. The second, applied largely in East Asia, focuses on retaining existing assets in the...
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female labor force participation in Bangladesh. The note presents a brief overview of the status and dynamics of female labor … force participation in Bangladesh, along with a discussion of underlying causes. It identifies potential areas for …
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The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty …, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored …
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This summary report presents the findings of the Bangladesh WASH Poverty Diagnostic (BWPD) study led by the World Bank … offering recommendations for moving Bangladesh's WASH sector forward …
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Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Owing to its low-lying topography, dense river … most severe of these hazards. A key focus for improving disaster preparedness and early warning systems in Bangladesh is … for tropical cyclone forecast used by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), the main government agency …
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