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A child walks outside makeshift shelters at the Kaxareey camp for the internally displaced people after they fled from the severe droughts in Dollow, Gedo Region, Somalia. 24 May 2022. Photo: Reuters

Why is Africa, a continent rich in resources, still so poor?

Consider Monaco, where 1.5 litres of drinking water can reportedly cost as much as $6. Meanwhile, Burkina Faso, one of the world's poorest countries, has an annual per capita income of...

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World's 500 richest add record $2.2t in 2025 as wealth gap widens

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Revolutionary Workers Party candidate Saiful earns Tk4.2 lakh a year from talk shows

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1% control 54% of country's wealth, says RAPID chair

Former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury outside his apartment in London. Photo: Al Jazeera

ACC uncovers large volume of documents linked to more foreign assets of Saifuzzaman

Speakers at a conference on recommendations by the Task Force on Re-strategising the Economy, organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in Dhaka on 25 February. Photo: TBS

Top 10% hold 58.5% of total wealth in Bangladesh: Economic task force

Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission. File Photo: TBS

ACC sues former MP Rimon for acquiring illegal wealth

Rob, Alice and Jim Walton during the annual Walmart shareholders meeting event in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 2018. Photo illustration: 731; Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images

World's Richest Families 2024: Waltons back on top after Walmart's stock surge

The logo of Swiss bank UBS is seen at a branch office in Zurich, Switzerland, June 22, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo

Billionaires' wealth more than doubles in 10 years: UBS

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Generational wealth: A silent source of insecurity for those without

106 millionaires contesting in upazila polls' 3rd phase: TIB

106 millionaires contesting in upazila polls' 3rd phase: TIB

Former inspector general of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed. Photo: Collected

Former IGP Benazir claimed he bought 4 Gulshan flats for Tk2cr; actual value around Tk22cr

Anti-Corruption Commission, Bangladesh. File Photo: TBS

ACC sues former customs officer, wife for acquiring wealth Illegally