Bangladesh, Oct. 17 -- Among the reasons for treating Bangladesh as development model has been its success to reduce poverty from a high level to a tolerable scale with the prospect of further reduction. By this token, poverty reduction became a trend rather than a random event. Bangladesh reduced moderate poverty from a high of 56.6 per cent in 1991-92 to 18.7 in 2022 and extreme poverty from 41.0 to 5.6 per cent during the same period setting almost an unmatched record for developing countries. A combination of public policies, poverty focussed international assistance and targeted activities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on poor, particularly women, contributed to this success story. Three recent reports of the World Bank h...