Bangladesh outshines high-income countries in inclusive recovery from Covid-19 economic fallout (Dhaka Tribune) 

Dhaka Tribune (Bangladesh) published an article on Bangladesh’s recovery from the economic fallout of the first wave of the pandemic has been more inclusive than even some of the high-income countries of the world, suggests a newly published survey result by IFPRI and Cornell University. In between June 2020 and January 2021, the proportion of pandemic-induced unemployment witnessed a 70% decline. used pre-pandemic data and conducted two rounds of phone surveys on the same sample of over 2,000 rural households in June 2020 and in January 2021 to track the experiences and impacts of the Covid-19 crisis over time in Bangladesh. And last week, IFPRI and Cornell came up with the findings suggesting that unlike experiences in some high-income countries, recovery has been relatively inclusive in rural Bangladesh.