Income inequality rises amid declining poverty: BBS report

Despite a drop in poverty, the country has seen a worrying rise in income inequality between 2016 and 2022, according to the latest survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Unveiled at the BBS auditorium yesterday, the Household Income and Expenditure Survey-2022 reveals that the income Gini coefficient was 0.499 at the national level in 2022 – with 0.446 in rural

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