Newsrooms from Bangladesh continue to produce outstanding investigations in an increasingly challenging media environment, with stories exposing political disinformation, human rights violations by police, online abuse of women, and exploitation of agriculture workers.
As of now, the extreme poverty rate in Bangladesh stands at 5.6 percent. But even so, at the district-level, there are a number of areas which have consistently found their place in the high-poverty lists referred to in several of the five-year plans.