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Up to 200,000 coastal people may be forced to migrate annually to the country's inland areas to find alternative livelihoods due to climate change induced salinity and sea level rises, according to a new study. Researchers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Ohio State University jointly conducted...

On 21st October 2015, there are 90 regional and national NGOs working in LDCs has signed a letter demanding TRIPS waiver for LDCs. Among the signatory NGOs, 28 are from Bangladesh alone. This letter has been sent to Ambassador Michael Froman and Ambasador Punke asking them to support LDCs'...

Dhaka, 3 August 2014: Today in a press conference at the National Press Club 12 right based organizations urge the Trade Minister of Bangladesh to strongly stand for the food security of the poor through agriculture price support, public stockpiling of grain and subsidised distribution of food among the poor...

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This is a very essential bangla reading in respect of understanding on how and why MNCs goes to or transfer capital to tax havens. Strange that now even IMF also telling this, as because now developed / OECD countries are also sufferer in this regard, along with developing countries....