Extreme poverty to fall to 3% by 2030: Foreign minister Momen

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10:44 PM, March 29, 2021 / LAST MODIFIED: 10:46 PM, March 29, 2021
Extreme poverty to fall to 3% by 2030: Foreign minister

Extreme poverty to fall to 3% by 2030: Foreign minister

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said the extreme poverty rate will come down to 3 percent by 2030 and that the country will be free of poverty after 2041.

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Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen. File photo

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen. File photo

UNB, Dhaka

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said the extreme poverty rate will come down to 3 percent by 2030 and that the country will be free of poverty after 2041.

"Once, 80 percent people were poor in Bangladesh but now the poverty rate stands at 20 percent thanks to good initiatives. The Sheikh Hasina government laid emphasis on eliminating poverty from the country in 2009," he said at the launching ceremony of the book titled "Sheikh Hasina Sarker" at Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka.

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Momen said Bangladesh needs the incumbent government for further development.

"Once our annual average growth rate was 2.2 percent. Now it's 6.9 percent. It's an unbelievable development. Bangabandhu [Sheikh Mujibur Rahman] brought freedom and his daughter fulfilled his dreams," he said.

Momen said Bangladesh once faced serious food crisis. The government announced to resolve the problem providing subsidies in the agriculture sector. Now there is no food crisis.


"Earlier, power cuts were common, [but now] the government has increased power production to 24,000MW from 2009-2020," the minister added.

The foreign minister said the government took lots of initiatives to make the population skilled to eliminate unemployment. Besides, the government took steps to tackle the impacts of climate change.

He said that is why the prime minister won the "Champions of the Earth" award and earned the respect of the global audience.

About Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka, Momen said they are honoured that he chose Bangladesh to be his first tour abroad since the coronavirus outbreak.

He added that 65 countries sent messages to appreciate Bangladesh. They also appreciated Sheikh Hasina for the response to the Rohingya crisis.

Momen highlighted Bangladesh's development and said the country currently has a forex reserve of $44 billion and is regarded as a leader in South Asia.

 

[Bilal9]

Another gem by Momen.

Not to be too cynical (I have been called out on it). But he has to at least explain the basis of his claim.

"pulled it out of my rear end" cannot be a basis.

Where are the PowerPoints showing people the plans for training the millions of unskilled youth in value addition marketable skills, that they will need to work in the hundred SEZ's the govt. is claimed to be completing? That is a crying need of the day, not tall claims of poverty reduction.

Poverty reduction is not a foreign ministry portfolio or task either.

I suspect the toupee chemicals have now seeped into his Thalamus, deep inside his brain.

Nothing else can explain the tall claims.

 

[Michael Corleone]

good initiatives.

BAL
Much of Bangladesh population if anything have turned their lives around themselves. Many didn’t take a penny from the country rather reinvested everything earned abroad so what bullshit initiatives is he talking about?

 

[Menace2Society]

It can fall 99% if they wanted to.

 

[mb444]

GOB has had very little to do with BDs progress. BAL scum and their epic nonsense

 

[xyxmt]

The proof will be no Bangladeshi gets shot while crossing border into India.

 

[Bilal9]

The proof will be no Bangladeshi gets shot while crossing border into India.

You mean India - the land of milk and honey?

That all Bangladeshis aspire to go to?

I look for the day I plan to take my lota and begin that much-anticipated journey.

 

[Destranator]

He is not wrong. The 10 fighter squadrons that BAF will induct by 2030 will create thousands of decent paying jobs resulting in poverty reduction.
@Michael Corleone @The Ronin

 

[SpaceMan18]

He is not wrong. The 10 fighter squadrons that BAF will induct by 2030 will create thousands of decent paying jobs resulting in poverty reduction.
@Michael Corleone @The Ronin

Great joke lol

 

[Homo Sapiens]

The proof will be no Bangladeshi gets shot while crossing border into India.

Only smugglers cross border illegally to smuggle cattle and goods. So even if Bangladesh achieve significant per capita gain compared to India, this smuggling and illegal border crossing will continue. Bangladeshi smugglers are not interested to settle in India. They just want quick bucks taking advantage of cheap and plentiful Indian cows, Saris, illegal drugs etc. Common Bangladeshi citizen goes to India in legal ways. Indian visa is very easy to get in Bangladesh, 2 million Bangladeshi goes to India every year for various reasons, why should any Bangladeshi citizen, whose sole intention is to settle in India, should take risks of his life crossing barbed wire fence and BSF bullet ? when he can just get visa from any of the multiple Indian consulates in Bangladesh, board a train or bus and then simply vanish once step inside India. But this is not happening. Bangladeshis goes to India for cheap shopping, treatment or just sight seeing like any normal tourists and duly come back. BSF chief himself admitted that, smuggling is the only motif of illegal border crossing from Bangladesh.

Smuggling only motive for infiltrators from Bangladesh: Border Security Force

Smuggling only motive for infiltrators from Bangladesh: Border Security Force

No other intention behind cross-border movement, according to the force’s Guwahati Frontier chief

www.thehindu.com

 

[xyxmt]

You mean India - the land of milk and honey?

That all Bangladeshis aspire to go to?

I look for the day I plan to take my lota and begin that much-anticipated journey.

you will not find a spot not already used twice for that purpose

 

[Bilal9]

you will not find a spot not already used twice for that purpose

Ha ha ha - you're probably right.

I spoke to an American guy who saw this in the beaches of India, and told me that some animals like Cats are at least far more diligent and have some shame. They dig a hole to poop - to at least cover it up.

Just sub-human behavior....animals.

 

[Shorisrip]

Ha ha ha - you're probably right.

I spoke to an American guy who saw this in the beaches of India, and told me that some animals like Cats are at least far more diligent and have some shame. They dig a hole to poop - to at least cover it up.

Just sub-human behavior....animals.

 

[fallstuff]

Another gem by Momen.

Not to be too cynical (I have been called out on it). But he has to at least explain the basis of his claim.

"pulled it out of my rear end" cannot be a basis.

Where are the PowerPoints showing people the plans for training the millions of unskilled youth in value addition marketable skills, that they will need to work in the hundred SEZ's the govt. is claimed to be completing? That is a crying need of the day, not tall claims of poverty reduction.

Poverty reduction is not a foreign ministry portfolio or task either.

I suspect the toupee chemicals have now seeped into his Thalamus, deep inside his brain.

Nothing else can explain the tall claims.

Proximity must be the reason. How close he got to Modi ?

 

[Bilal9]

Proximity must be the reason. How close he got to Modi ?

I don't know. He is the perfect sycophant to Hasina - in real sense.

He wants to keep his job, so parrots whatever she says, which in turn is what Modi also says.

Momen and Hasina both know who their savior is - at the end of the day.