As Covid-19 relief starts rolling out, the urban poor find themselves in a grey area
As the government rolls out a financial assistance scheme in the country to support the poor in the face of the economic fallout of the pandemic, the urban poor are finding themselves in a tight spot.
According to a recently published study, Bangladesh now has 16 million new poor and a lot of them belong to the urban poor category. "The workers' wages declined by 42 percent in Dhaka and 33 percent in Chattogram districts. The decline in income of salaried workers was much higher at 49 percent due to a sharp reduction in demand for the services," reported this daily earlier in April, citing the study.