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FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Mixed performance of 2012 Aus season Record level paddy crop production in 2011 Wheat prices declined in the recent months while rice prices remained generally stable at low levels Localized food insecurity persists Mixed performance of 2012 Aus…
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DHAKA, JUNE 26 -- U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Nicholas Dean, and USAID Mission Director Richard Greene handed-over 60,000 metric tons of wheat today in Chittagong to the Government of Bangladesh. Today’s shipment is the first…
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(extract) Bangladesh was not violating international laws by sending Rohingyas back to Myanmar since they were forced to cross into Bangladesh by a particular religious group, not by the state itself, National Human Rights Commission Chairman Prof…
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(extract) Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the prices of various food items have marked a fall by 37 per cent due to various time-befitting steps taken by the government. She made the remarks when leaders of…
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PLACE: Geneva DATE: 15 June 2012 UNHCR is deeply concerned that people fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State are not able to find the safety and security they desperately need. The UN refugee agency has first-hand, credible accounts…
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A massive cyclone which hit Bangladesh in May 2009 is still having a devastating effect on the lives of many people in the country three years after the event, international humanitarian agency Oxfam said today. To coincide…
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HIGHLIGHTS The countrywide retail price of rice has declined from last quarter by 4 percent and from the same quarter of the previous year by 17 percent. There has been a 6 percent and 4 percent increase…
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DHAKA – A 2 million euro (BDT 20 crore) donation from ECHO, the humanitarian aid department of the European Union, has allowed the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to move quickly to address emerging hunger…
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Contents In Focus The facts: children in urban slums Down the urban road – lessons from Brazil Malnutrition in urban slums on film My life in an urban slum In Focus Cash transfers In The Field Hazards of an urban slum Catching them young: Pre-primary ‘sibling’ schools Events State…
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Launch Ceremony of Piloting Conditional Cash Transfers through Local Government For Human Development (“Shombhob”) in Narayanganj City Corporation Remarks by Ellen Goldstein Country Director, World Bank Bangladesh May 27, 2012 Honorable Advisor to the Prime Minister, Dr. Gowher Rizvi Honorable Mayor…
