Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurating ‘BEPZA International Investors Summit 2018’ at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) yesterday.

Landlessness main reason behind poverty among indigenous people

UNB, Dhaka :Landlessness is the main reason behind the widespread poverty among indigenous people, according to a new study reveled at a seminar here on Thursday.It shows that landlessness among the indigenous households is 79 percent compared to the national rural landlessness of about 55 percent.Three-fourth of indigenous communities host more landless households compared to the mainstream households (68 percent), the study reveals. Oxfam Bangladesh and Human Development Research Centre (HDRC) in collaboration with the European Union organised the disseminating...

28 Feb 2015, 12:00 am