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Rising like the Phoenix
Friday, May 27, 2011 Marufa Haque I have visited the ashy remnants of the fire that destroyed their homes. Where the flames burnt everything they had, that was all that they could claim as their own....
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Water-body Management Policy 2009: Does it benefit fishers?
Thursday, July 28, 2011 Sonia Kabir To meet the targets of millennium development goals, Bangladesh needs to reduce the number of poor people by half of that of 2000 by 2015. But the latest reports...
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Reviving dialogue on anti-eviction Bill
Thursday, June 16, 2011 Photo: Trond Soras Kishore Kumar Singh and Peter Bossink Slum settlements are the visible face of urban poverty in Bangladesh. In the absence of initiatives by the public and...
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Subsidise food not energy
Sunday, June 19, 2011 Photo: Quddus Alam/ Drik News Zahin Hasan In “Development as Freedom” (1999), Nobel laureate Dr. Amartya Sen points out that famines are not simply caused by low food...
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New policy settlement for poverty reduction
Saturday, February 12, 2011 Photo: MUNEM WASIF/DRIK NEWS Geof Wood I argued in my previous article (The Daily Star Jan. 30, page 15) that poverty reduction would always require provision from...
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Adivasis’ unheard voices
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Sk. Zakir Hossain Adivasis of plain land districts in north western Bangladesh are surviving far below the so-called poverty line. With an average family size of 3.12...
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Access to khas land: Alleviating poverty
Sunday, September 25, 2011 Photo: Munem Wasif/ Drik news Shahidul Islam Fifty year old Bishwanath Ghughu’s life changed forever in April 2010 when he became the proud owner of an acre of khas land from...
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Our food security
Friday, January 20, 2012 Muhammad Abdur Razzaque Food security plays an important role in social and political stability of a country. But sustaining agricultural growth and food security is a...
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Plight of the people in the south
Thursday, January 26, 2012 Shaveena Anam Bangladesh’s southern coastal belt is a beautiful and surreal place; trees on either side of the road and beyond them, a completely flat and waterlogged...
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What hope for the poor?
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Marufa Haque Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty,” Mother Teresa. We are all familiar with the words poor or poverty. We have different...
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