An increase in the per capita income to $2,824 in the outgoing 2022 financial year from $2,591 the financial year before, an estimate that the government has done but experts have doubted, appears not to have any reflection on living standards of citizens. A growing number of poor people, with 32.4 million surveyed by the Power and Participation Research Centre and the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development in November 2021 to have freshly slid below the poverty threshold during the still ongoing protracted Covid outbreak, and a widening income inequality make the proposition meaningless.
An increase in the per capita income to $2,824 in the outgoing 2022 financial year from $2,591 the financial year before, an estimate that the government has done but experts have doubted, appears not to have any reflection on living standards of citizens. A growing number of poor people, with 32.4 million surveyed by the Power and Participation Research Centre and the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development in November 2021 to have freshly slid below the poverty threshold during the still ongoing protracted Covid outbreak, and a widening income inequality make the proposition meaningless.
