Disasters have posed significant economic costs to Bangladesh, and financing needs associated with disaster response are estimated to be substantial. Bangladesh has put in place fiscal mechanisms, ...

Dengue has long been endemic in Bangladesh, but the past two years have seen a sinister turn, and numbers may be even worse than official figures suggest. Rahat Touhid reports At the beginning of ...

The contamination of drinking water with naturally occurring arsenic threatens the health of millions of people in southern Asia. The problem is particularly acute in Bangladesh, where 13% of the ...