Bangladesh

14 December 2021 - Ratnakar Adhikari
How can LDCs be supported to improve their trade performance and sustainably raise their share of trade in the global economy?
4 May 2021 - Deanna Ramsay
Tourism, apparel and sustainable development strategies are covered in new series of policy briefs from the Enhanced Integrated Framework
27 April 2021 - Helen Castell
Least developed countries (LDCs) receive only 6% of the private finance mobilized globally through blended finance, and even then funds are concentrated in a handful of LDCs while ‘last mile’ countries, sectors and businesses miss out.
16 February 2021 - Désirée Van Gorp
Multinationals and governments need to recognize the trade world’s interconnectedness, and its impact
21 January 2021 - Deanna Ramsay
Photo: An apparel worker at a garment factory that reopened amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
1 December 2020 - Dr. Fahmida Khatun
In Bangladesh, COVID-19 is impacting the female labour force more
12 August 2020 - Michelle Kovacevic
In 2017, Bangladesh’s Ministry of Commerce secured US$50 million from the World Bank to address trade facilitation and export diversification issues.
29 July 2020 - Michelle Kovacevic
Recently launched ecommerce training program and portal will help hundreds of women entrepreneurs in South Asian LDCs become part of regional and global supply chains.
18 May 2020 - Rajan Sudesh Ratna
How will graduation impact countries in South Asia and the trade support they benefit from? How can they prepare?
4 May 2020 - Soo Hyun Kim Yann Duval
COVID-19 is highlighting the need for paperless trade in developing countries; a recent assessment offers recommendations for how to start
21 April 2020 - Deanna Ramsay
A roundup of recent news on the global pandemic, covering issues facing some of the world’s poorest countries – and what they are doing
18 February 2020 - Ratnakar Adhikari Fabrice Lehmann
Originally published in OECD-Development Matters on 5 February 2020
28 January 2020 - Daniel Gay
For many, graduation from least developed country status is not the end of the story.
27 July 2018 - Daria Shatskova
The EIF’s Daria Shatskova talks development in the world’s poorest countries with UNDESA’s Daniel Gay