Cushioning the fall: The urgent need to protect Bangladesh’s new poor
Bangladesh is navigating a deeply troubling period in its national life. Poverty is on the rise, yet neither the chronically poor nor the newly poor are being provided with adequate economic cushions to absorb the shocks. Worse, nearly 62 million people live just above the poverty line -- just one s
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Bangladesh is navigating a deeply troubling period in its national life. Poverty is on the rise, yet neither the chronically poor nor the newly poor are being provided with adequate economic cushions to absorb the shocks. Worse, nearly 62 million people live just above the povert