Dhaka listed World’s second least resilient city

According to a report published by The Economist magazine, Dhaka is considered the second least resilient city in the world.

In the report titled “Resilient Cities Index, a global benchmark of urban risk, response and recovery”, Dhaka was ranked according to four categories – Critical infrastructure, Environment, Socio-Institutional, and Economic.

The report, which ranked 25 cities across the world, painted a gloomy picture of the world ravaged by devastated climate challenges in the form of extreme weather events – hurricanes to flooding, wildfires, and heatwaves.

Highly-populated emerging economic cities like Dhaka have the most significant challenges in maintaining their infrastructure in the next 50 to 100 years, the report said.

The need to deliver functional infrastructure to manage and cushion their growth is critical in facing the challenges of the future.

The report highlighted that high levels of corruption caused certain cities to score poorly in this aspect.