Bangladesh living costs: How long will these 18 lakh people continue to lead such precarious lives, where they face daily uncertainties about how many meals they and their children can have? About when they can afford to seek medical treatment for their own ailments, as well as those of their loved ones? What haunts them at night?
The overall poverty headcount decreased by 4.3 percentage points in Dhaka city between 2019 and 2022, according to a survey of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).