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Plan includes over 110 measures estimated to cost $230 billion Small and rural businesses say they get little state support Climate-resilient infrastructure could shield productivity, jobs By Md. Tahmid Zami and Mehedi Hasan DHAKA, Oct 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Khaleda Sultana's small workshop in Dhaka, where she makes homeware and handicrafts from jute and other plant fibres, is far from the coastal areas of Bangladesh that are struggling to cope with rising seas and powerful storms. But, she says, her business still needs to adapt to worsening climate change impacts.
Poor households headed by women spend a higher share of their budgets on protecting their families from worsening floods, storms and other impacts of global warming