The government agencies and non-govern-ment organisations need to speed efforts to lift millions of urban people out of poverty, Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed said yesterday.
The country's fast-expanding major cities are home to 80 lakh urban extreme poor, with Dhaka alone accommodating more than half.
Every year, a large number of people migrate to the cities to make a living due in
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