Poor purchasing power parity
Bangladesh is the nation most vulnerable to global climate change in the world, according to German Watch’s Global Climate Risk Index (CRI) of 2011. This is based on the analysis of impacts of major climate events that occurred around the world in the twenty-year period since 1990. The reasons are complex and extremely intertwined.
Located at the bottom of the mighty GBM river system (comprising the Padma, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna), Bangladesh is watered by a total of 57 trans-boundary rivers coming down to it, 54 rivers from neighbouring India and three from Myanmar.
The country, which has no control of the water flow and volume, drains to the Bay of Bengal over 90 pc of the total run-off generated annually. Coupled with the high level of widespread poverty and increasing population density, limited adaptive capacity and poorly funded, ineffective local governance have made the region one of the most adversely affected in the planet. There are an estimated one thousand people in each square kilometer, with the national population increasing by two million people each year.
Almost half the population is in poverty (Purchasing Power Parity of $1.25 per person a day). Hence these people do not have the ability to respond to a natural disaster. In this situation, the government has to take up comprehensive plan to save the people of the own country though negotiation and other measures.
A Citizen
Dhaka
