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    Poverty in Bangladesh in the 2010s-Progress, Drivers, and Vulnerabilities: An Introduction

    Hill, Ruth; Genoni, Maria; Sen, Binayak | September 2019
    Abstract
    Bangladesh has come a long way since it became independent in 1971. The most dramatic expression of its progress is, perhaps, revealed in impressive poverty reduction recorded over the last nearly 50 years of Independence. In 1973/74, about 71.3 per cent of rural population lived in absolute poverty (as defined by the Cost-of-Basic-Needs approach); the matched figure has gone down to just 24.3 per cent in 2016.4 Bangladesh’s development experience during this long period can be summarised as the time of the ascent of the poor and the poorest measured by both income and non-income indicators. From the employment point of view, it was an ascent underpinned primarily by the rise of the relatively unskilled labour through technology-intensive agricultural growth, rural non-farm sector development, export led industrialisation, and international migration of workers; the last two having important effects on the rapid pace of urbanisation since 2000. Bangladesh’s long-term progress is also vindicated by the recent data. In 2016, about 1 in 4 Bangladeshi were poor. The country has halved poverty rates in a decade and a half, lifting more than 25 million people out of poverty. Between 2010 and 2016, about 8 million Bangladeshi were lifted out of poverty. Bangladesh is not only a one of the top performers in poverty reduction in the South Asia region, it is equally a top performer in improving non-monetary dimensions of welfare. This special issue of the Bangladesh Development Studies on poverty includes a series of papers that explore various dimensions of poverty in Bangladesh in the 2010s highlighting progress in poverty reduction as well as pre-existing vulnerabilities. Both the strengths and weaknesses of the poverty reduction process have been highlighted by the nine papers included in this volume.
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    Hill, Ruth; Genoni, Maria; Sen, Binayak. 2019. Poverty in Bangladesh in the 2010s-Progress, Drivers, and Vulnerabilities: An Introduction. © Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/14682.
    Keywords
    Alleviating Poverty
    Anti-Poverty
    Extreme Poverty
    Fight Against Poverty
    Global Poverty
    Health Aspects Of Poverty
    Indicators Of Poverty
    Participatory Poverty Assessment
    Poverty Eradication
    Poverty Analysis
    Poverty In Developing Countries
    Poverty Reduction Efforts
    Urban Poverty
    Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
    Project Evaluation & Review Technique
    Performance Evaluation
    Impact Evaluation Reports
    Evaluation Criteria
    Development Indicators
    Environmental Indicators
    Economic Indicators
    Educational Indicators
    Demographic Indicators
    Health Indicators
    Disadvantaged Groups
    Low Income Groups
    Socially Disadvantaged Children
    Aging
    Rural Conditions
    Rural Development
    Social Conditions
    Urban Development
    Urban Sociology
    Project finance
    Resources evaluation
    Needs assessment
    Cost benefit analysis
    Poor
    Economic forecasting
    Health expectancy
    Social groups
    Political participation
    Distribution of income
    Inequality of income
    Developing countries
    Rural community development
    Mass society
    Social change
    Social policy
    Social stability
    Population
    Sustainable development
    Peasantry
    Urban policy
    Urban renewal
    Results mapping
    Risk assessment
    Participatory monitoring and evaluation
    Cost effectiveness
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    Genoni, Maria
    Sen, Binayak
    Theme
    Poverty
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