"The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and it was in 2014 halved compared to 1990, and now … the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is to a high degree the consequence of the … rapid economic development in a few countries, especially China, but in many countries around the globe poverty is still …

The present paper discusses the poverty measurement techniques being used in and the poverty profile of Bangladesh … Poverty Monitoring Survey (PMS) conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Poverty in Bangladesh was earlier measured … by direct calorie intake (DCI) method. The food energy intake (FEI) method was first used in the Poverty Monitoring …