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Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said he did not admit that around 2.4crore people had become new poor in Bangladesh due to Covid crisis.
Answering to a question on the country new poor after a meeting of the cabinet committee on government purchases, he wanted to know how the number was calculated.
Local think-tank Power and Participation Research Centre put the number of new poor at 2.45 crore while another think-tank Centre for Policy Dialogue said that 1.6 crore people became new poor.
In its ‘Bangladesh Development Update-2021’ World Bank estimated the upper poverty rate would increase by 7 percentage points to 30 per cent due to the novel coronavirus spread.
Inflation reaches 5.32pc in February
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increased slightly last month (February) as it went up by 0.30 percentage
point to 5.32 percentage point in February, 2021.
“The General point-to-point inflation rate in February 2021 reached 5.32
percentage point,” said Statistics and Informatics Division Secretary
Mohammad Yamin Chowdhury.
conference at the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in city’s Agargaon
area today.
January, 2021.
February, 2021 from 5.23 percent in the previous month, while the non-food
inflation rate, also increased to 5.17 percent last month from 4.69 percent
in January, 2021.
the last month from 5.00 percent in last January.
The general inflation rate also increased to 5.30 percent in February from
5.05 percent in January in the urban areas.
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