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Ramgarh (Khagrachhari)

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A northern border upazila of Khagrachhari on the Feni river frontier with India, the site of a land port linking hill trade to the plains.

Wealth rank 69/452 (1 = poorest upazila)

Indicators: Meta RWI (HDX); ERA5-Land; MODIS; Sentinel-5P; VIIRS night-lights; GHSL; Hansen v1.11; CHIRPS v2.0. Exposure: GloFAS v2.1, FABDEM, MODIS LST, ACAG PM2.5, WorldPop 2020.

Problems and issues

  1. governance As a frontier land-port upazila on the Feni river border, cross-border trade and informal movement require strong oversight that remoteness makes difficult. So what: Border trade and services are harder to formalize and regulate. Source: Bangladesh Land Port Authority
  2. climate disaster Heavy monsoon rainfall on deforested hill slopes drives flash floods and landslides in the wet season. So what: Hillside settlements and the border corridor face slope failure and flooding. Source: Department of Disaster Management
  3. poverty Mean Relative Wealth Index of -0.246 (national rank 69 of 452, decile 2) marks Ramgarh as among the poorer upazilas nationally. So what: Hill-farming households have limited non-farm income. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)

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