Poverty in Bangladesh : Building on Progress
Bangladesh has made recent progress in reducing poverty, but still faces the reality that roughly half its citizens live in deprivation. This report examines the record of advances during the 1990s, major challenges still to be overcome and priorit...
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Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/12/2300143/bangladesh-poverty-bangladesh-building-progress http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15303 |
Summary: | Bangladesh has made recent progress in
reducing poverty, but still faces the reality that roughly
half its citizens live in deprivation. This report examines
the record of advances during the 1990s, major challenges
still to be overcome and priority measures to accelerate
poverty reduction. The report suggests that changes in
practices an policies, to realize healthy economic growth
designed to benefit the rural poor as well as more rapid,
sustained movement toward greater social justice.
Dramatically lowering the incidence of poverty requires
significantly higher levels of economic performance, it also
requires that growth reaches the poor and expands their
opportunities. Primary education managed to enroll nearly
equal proportions of boys and girls and of urban and rural
children. Drinking and cooking water now come from tube
wells rather than from less sanitary surface water.
Prioritizing use of governmental resources, correcting the
deterioration that has taken place in government finances in
recent years, and imposing strong discipline on the many
wasteful state-owned enterprises would help restore fiscal
order and macroeconomic stability. |
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