Some 2.45 crore vulnerable non-poor people or 14.7 per cent of the country’s total population slipped into poverty due to the Covid fallout, according to a joint study conducted in 2021 by the Power and Participation Research Centre and the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development. The International Labour Organisation in January projected that the number of unemployed people in Bangladesh would stand at 3.6 million in 2022 while the pre-pandemic figure was 0.5 million.
Some 2.45 crore vulnerable non-poor people or 14.7 per cent of the country’s total population slipped into poverty due to the Covid fallout, according to a joint study conducted in 2021 by the Power and Participation Research Centre and the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development. The International Labour Organisation in January projected that the number of unemployed people in Bangladesh would stand at 3.6 million in 2022 while the pre-pandemic figure was 0.5 million.
