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Protecting marginalized people from food inflation
In Bangladesh, CPI (Consumer Price Index) inflation was recorded at 6.2 percent in February, which is higher than the country’s central bank’s inflation target (5.3 percent) for 2022. Prices of some food items, namely Soybean oil, coarse rice, sugar, and flour, rose 44 percent, 34 percent, 32 percent, and 21 percent, respectively, in the last quarter of 2021 compared to the pre-Covid-19 level (the final quarter of 2019). Read More
What Local Responses To Covid-19 Can Teach Us About Decolonising Development
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a renewed focus on the role of local actors and local knowledge in responding to crisis. With planes grounded and movement within countries limited to prevent spread of the disease, external actors that might normally have travelled to local communities were limited to video calls at best. While these disruptions to the ‘normal’ way of doing things have led to adaptions of research and support by distance, they also beg the question of what local communities can and should be leading themselves. Read More
Covid-19 vaccination and digital exclusion at the margins
Recently, Bangladeshi social media has been flooded with snapshots of people proudly announcing their vaccinated status in a valiant attempt to allay the vaccine hesitancy amongst the wider population. However, the impact of these online campaigns and the extent to which the online registration – a requirement for vaccination- process is accessible for people at the margins in this vaccination programme, demands a careful analysis. Read More