Bangladesh Development
Research Center (BDRC)
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2006  
(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/yunus-lecture-en.html)  
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“Poverty is a Threat to Peace”
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Bangladesh, a country with 40 million persons living
below $1 a day, deserves debt relief and more aid.

As the following figure shows, the share of aid (net official development assistance
(ODA)) provided to Bangladesh has fallen drastically since 1987.