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This is a list of slums in Bangladesh.. Begun Bari [1]; Bhola (Dhaka North) [2] City Palli (Dhaka South) Driver Colony (Dhaka South) Duaripara (Dhaka North) Kawnia; Korail slum (Dhaka North)
This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...
Slums exist in many countries and have become a global phenomenon. [275] A UN-Habitat report states that in 2006 there were nearly 1 billion people settling in slum settlements in most cities of Central America, Asia, South America and Africa, and a smaller number in the cities of Europe and North America. [276] [page needed]
About 3,000 people in Bangladesh were left homeless after a massive fire consumed several hundred shanties in a slum on the northern outskirts of the capital city of Dhaka, government officials ...
List of slums in Bangladesh; List of favelas in Brazil; E. ... List of slums in Sri Lanka This page was last edited on 1 August 2022, at 12:24 (UTC). Text ...
Bangladesh's per capita has increased almost threefold between 2010 and 2020, from under $700 [5] to $2,068, [6] (the highest GDP per capita in South Asia) moving Bangladesh into the ranks of middle-income economy. At current growth, Bangladesh is projected to enter upper-middle income status by 2041.
In contemporary times, squatting since the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War has resulted from factors such as migration from rural areas to urban ones, the lack of affordable housing, bad governance and natural disasters. [1] [2]: 17–18 As well as informal settlements on the ground, there are rooftop slums and boat squatters. [1]
List of slums in Bangladesh This page was last edited on 9 July 2024, at 17:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...