Bangladesh is fighting the dual burden of nutrition — stunting and obesity — when it comes to teenagers, and the World Bank is designing a nutrition intervention particularly targeted at this age…

Anurag Banerjee, Sayan Kundu, Tasmia Rahman |

Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in reducing undernutrition. Yet much remains to be done as a third of all children in Bangladesh under the age of five are stunted, and nearly one in five…

Seenithamby Manoharan, Samina Yasmin, Jean Saint-Geours, Wameq Azfar Raza, Deepika Chaudhery |

Bangladesh has made impressive human capital gains in the past two decades. But with rapid urbanization and pockets of poor increasing, the country faces new challenges which can impede its goals…

Dr SM Mustafizur Rahman, Wameq Azfar Raza, Deepika Chaudhery |

With the help of technology and World Bank support, the Bangladesh government was able to immediately give out emergency cash transfers to 400,000 vulnerable farmers during the pandemic.

Elma Zahir, Wesley De Witt, Eun Joo Allison Yi, Christian Berger |

Animal disease control through vaccination is the most cost-effective way to reduce disease incidence and minimize economic losses. Bangladesh government efforts to step up animal vaccination is…

Marimuthu Swaminathan, Izabela Leao, Samina Yasmin |

Over the past decade, Bangladesh has improved its human capital. Child and maternal mortality reduced, the rate of stunting for children under 5 dropped from 43 percent in 2007 to 31 percent in…

Mercy Tembon |

The World Bank Group's 2020 Human Capital Index reminds us that much still needs to be to done to strengthen human development outcomes such as health and education.

Hartwig Schafer |

As we address pandemic-related food security in the region, this is a good time to revisit important lessons learned from the South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative.

Cecile Fruman, Yinan Zhang |

Bangladesh has made it a priority to combat the scourge of stunting by focusing on improving access to quality nutrition and health services, adopting a series of multi-year strategies, programs…

Deepika Chaudhery |