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Using loopholes and fraud, brokers turn poverty in Bangladesh and demand for transplants in India into booming business.
Some Bangladeshis have sold their organs in order to pay back microcredit loans that were meant to lift them out of poverty, as journalist Sophie Cousins reports.
In total, rural families in Bangladesh are estimated to be spending 158 billion taka (almost $2bn) a year in repairing climate damage or trying to prevent it, research by IIED, the UN Development ...
40,000 people residing in saline, flood and drought prone areas have received adaptive basic needs (house, water, agriculture, health) and livelihood support. About 6,000 poor and forest dependent ...
Like 20 million other people in Bangladesh, ... describes microcredit as a "death trap" for the poor. ... House tests support of Trump's budget bill in vote after hours of delays. 10.
O ver more than four decades, Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank has disbursed some $37 billion in collateral-free loans to over 10 million of the world’s poorest people. But founder Muhammad Yunus ...
An estimated 43,000 people die each year from arsenic-related illness. Bangladesh isn’t taking basic, obvious steps to get arsenic out of the drinking water of millions of its rural poor.
People stand around the vandalized residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's former leader and the father of the country's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh ...
Kalai, like many other villages in Bangladesh, appears a rural idyll at first sight. But several villagers here have resorted to selling organs to pay back microcredit loans that were meant to ...