Analysts stress proper use of resources to reduce poverty

Bangladesh can reduce poverty to a great extent through proper utilisation of its own resources, said Uma Chowdhury, director of Sushasoner Jonno Procharavizan (Supro), yesterday.
Uma spoke at a press meet to launch the Mass Awareness against Global Poverty Week 2011 at Dhaka Reporters Unity.
Supro organised the week where various events, including discussions, human chain and mass gathering, will take place to make people aware about poverty and what the state should do to reduce poverty.
Sharifa Khatun, member of the executive committee of Supro, said the United Nations should pressurise the international money lenders to withdraw the interests while giving loans to the least developed countries.
She also stressed the need for stopping the donor's interference in the country's development planning. The government should provide subsidy to the agriculture sector instead of taking foreign loans, she added.