Forty-two percent of 5,577 households covered by a nationwide survey in Bangladesh were found below the poverty line, according to the findings of the study released yesterday.

South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) carried out the survey over November and December last year to find out how the socio-economic condition of the families changed because of the pandemic

The non-profit organisation had interviewed the same group of households in 2018 and had found 21.6 percent of them to be below the poverty line. This shot to 42 percent last year.

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