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| Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2006 (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/yunus-lecture-en.html) . |
| “Poverty is a Threat to Peace” |
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| Source: Please see the BDRC's research on Aid and Debt for further details. |
| Bangladesh, a country with 40 million persons living below $1 a day, deserves debt relief and more aid. The current aid allocation across countries is highly inconsistent with the goal to reduce poverty, and Bangladesh is one of the worst discriminated countries. group of countries with populations below 1 million (see Figure below). group of countries with populations below 1 million (see Figure below). Source: BDRC calculations based on OECD and World Bank data. |
This huge misallocation of aid is even less comprehensible if considering that:
a) Bangladesh’s income per capita is far below the income of the countries shown in the Figure above,
b) Bangladesh has been one of the most effective countries in terms of reducing poverty over the last decade.
As the following table shows, the discrimination against Bangladesh in terms of aid
allocation also holds if comparing aid levels across more populous countries.
As the following figure shows, the current discrimination against Bangladesh in terms of aid
allocation is the result of a reduction in Bangladesh’s share of aid since 1987.
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| Celebrating Universal Children’s Day on November 20, 2008 the BDRC has initiated a task on Children of Bangladesh |