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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Main Author: World Bank
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2013
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CDF
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/12/2300143/bangladesh-poverty-bangladesh-building-progress
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spelling okr-10986-153032021-04-23T14:03:15Z Poverty in Bangladesh : Building on Progress World Bank ACCOUNTABILITY AGED AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ARSENIC BENEFIT INCIDENCE BUDGETARY ALLOCATIONS CDF CHILD LABOR CHILD NUTRITION CHILDBIRTH CITIZENS COMMERCIAL BANKS COMMODITIES COMMON PROPERTY COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS DEVELOPMENT REPORTS DIRECT IMPACT DISASTERS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMISTS EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION EXPENDITURE SURVEY EXTREME POVERTY FAMILIES FARM ACTIVITIES FARMS FINANCIAL ASSETS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL SECTOR FISHERIES FISHING FULL PARTICIPATION GIRLS GROWTH INCIDENCE GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE SERVICES HEALTH EXPENDITURES HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SURVEY HEALTH SURVEYS HEALTH WORKERS HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSING HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT IMPORTS INCOME COUNTRIES INCOME GENERATION INCOME LEVELS INEQUALITY INFANT MORTALITY INFANTS INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS LABOR FORCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LITERACY RATES LIVING STANDARDS MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MALNUTRITION MIGRANTS MORBIDITY MORTALITY MOTHERS NON-AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES NON-FARM EMPLOYMENT NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NUTRITION NUTRITION POOR CHILDREN POOR GAIN POOR HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION GROWTH POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY LINE POVERTY PROJECTIONS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY ~LINE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRODUCTIVE ASSETS PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC RESOURCES REDUCING POVERTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS RURAL AREAS RURAL ECONOMY RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL POOR RURAL POPULATION RURAL POVERTY SAFETY SAFETY NET SAFETY NETS SAVINGS SCHOOLS SECTORAL COMPOSITION SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL SERVICES STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES STRUCTURAL REFORMS TARGETING PERFORMANCE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS URBAN ONES URBANIZATION WAGE INCOME WAGES WORKERS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES ECONOMIC PLANNING POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES JOB CREATION CHILD LABOR HEALTH PLANNING MATERNAL MORTALITY ECONOMIC GROWTH RURAL AREAS AGRICULTURE HUMAN CAPITAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING POLICY GOVERNANCE LIVING STANDARDS INDICATORS INCOME INEQUALITIES SCHOOL ENROLLMENT HOUSING CONDITIONS UNEMPLOYMENT RATES 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. 2013-08-22T20:56:33Z 2013-08-22T20:56:33Z 2002-12 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/12/2300143/bangladesh-poverty-bangladesh-building-progress http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15303 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC South Asia Bangladesh
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topic ACCOUNTABILITY
AGED
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
ARSENIC
BENEFIT INCIDENCE
BUDGETARY ALLOCATIONS
CDF
CHILD LABOR
CHILD NUTRITION
CHILDBIRTH
CITIZENS
COMMERCIAL BANKS
COMMODITIES
COMMON PROPERTY
COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
DEVELOPMENT REPORTS
DIRECT IMPACT
DISASTERS
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
ECONOMISTS
EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION
EXPENDITURE SURVEY
EXTREME POVERTY
FAMILIES
FARM ACTIVITIES
FARMS
FINANCIAL ASSETS
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL SECTOR
FISHERIES
FISHING
FULL PARTICIPATION
GIRLS
GROWTH INCIDENCE
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HEALTH CARE
HEALTH CARE SERVICES
HEALTH EXPENDITURES
HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTH SURVEY
HEALTH SURVEYS
HEALTH WORKERS
HOUSEHOLD HEAD
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSING
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT
IMPORTS
INCOME COUNTRIES
INCOME GENERATION
INCOME LEVELS
INEQUALITY
INFANT MORTALITY
INFANTS
INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS
LABOR FORCE
LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
LABOR MARKET
LABOR MARKETS
LITERACY RATES
LIVING STANDARDS
MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY
MACROECONOMIC STABILITY
MALNUTRITION
MIGRANTS
MORBIDITY
MORTALITY
MOTHERS
NON-AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
NON-FARM EMPLOYMENT
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUTRITION
NUTRITION
POOR CHILDREN
POOR GAIN
POOR HOUSEHOLDS
POPULATION GROWTH
POVERTY ASSESSMENT
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY PROJECTIONS
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
POVERTY ~LINE
PRIMARY EDUCATION
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRODUCTIVE ASSETS
PRODUCTIVITY
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW
PUBLIC HEALTH
PUBLIC RESOURCES
REDUCING POVERTY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS
RURAL AREAS
RURAL ECONOMY
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
RURAL POOR
RURAL POPULATION
RURAL POVERTY
SAFETY
SAFETY NET
SAFETY NETS
SAVINGS
SCHOOLS
SECTORAL COMPOSITION
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
SOCIAL JUSTICE
SOCIAL SERVICES
STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
STRUCTURAL REFORMS
TARGETING PERFORMANCE
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
UNEMPLOYMENT
URBAN AREAS
URBAN ONES
URBANIZATION
WAGE INCOME
WAGES
WORKERS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
ECONOMIC PLANNING
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
JOB CREATION
CHILD LABOR
HEALTH PLANNING
MATERNAL MORTALITY
ECONOMIC GROWTH
RURAL AREAS
AGRICULTURE
HUMAN CAPITAL
GOVERNMENT SPENDING POLICY
GOVERNANCE
LIVING STANDARDS INDICATORS
INCOME INEQUALITIES
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
HOUSING CONDITIONS
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES
spellingShingle ACCOUNTABILITY
AGED
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
ARSENIC
BENEFIT INCIDENCE
BUDGETARY ALLOCATIONS
CDF
CHILD LABOR
CHILD NUTRITION
CHILDBIRTH
CITIZENS
COMMERCIAL BANKS
COMMODITIES
COMMON PROPERTY
COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
DEVELOPMENT REPORTS
DIRECT IMPACT
DISASTERS
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
ECONOMISTS
EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION
EXPENDITURE SURVEY
EXTREME POVERTY
FAMILIES
FARM ACTIVITIES
FARMS
FINANCIAL ASSETS
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL SECTOR
FISHERIES
FISHING
FULL PARTICIPATION
GIRLS
GROWTH INCIDENCE
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HEALTH CARE
HEALTH CARE SERVICES
HEALTH EXPENDITURES
HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTH SURVEY
HEALTH SURVEYS
HEALTH WORKERS
HOUSEHOLD HEAD
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSING
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT
IMPORTS
INCOME COUNTRIES
INCOME GENERATION
INCOME LEVELS
INEQUALITY
INFANT MORTALITY
INFANTS
INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS
LABOR FORCE
LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
LABOR MARKET
LABOR MARKETS
LITERACY RATES
LIVING STANDARDS
MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY
MACROECONOMIC STABILITY
MALNUTRITION
MIGRANTS
MORBIDITY
MORTALITY
MOTHERS
NON-AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
NON-FARM EMPLOYMENT
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUTRITION
NUTRITION
POOR CHILDREN
POOR GAIN
POOR HOUSEHOLDS
POPULATION GROWTH
POVERTY ASSESSMENT
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY PROJECTIONS
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
POVERTY ~LINE
PRIMARY EDUCATION
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRODUCTIVE ASSETS
PRODUCTIVITY
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW
PUBLIC HEALTH
PUBLIC RESOURCES
REDUCING POVERTY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS
RURAL AREAS
RURAL ECONOMY
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
RURAL POOR
RURAL POPULATION
RURAL POVERTY
SAFETY
SAFETY NET
SAFETY NETS
SAVINGS
SCHOOLS
SECTORAL COMPOSITION
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
SOCIAL JUSTICE
SOCIAL SERVICES
STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
STRUCTURAL REFORMS
TARGETING PERFORMANCE
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
UNEMPLOYMENT
URBAN AREAS
URBAN ONES
URBANIZATION
WAGE INCOME
WAGES
WORKERS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
ECONOMIC PLANNING
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
JOB CREATION
CHILD LABOR
HEALTH PLANNING
MATERNAL MORTALITY
ECONOMIC GROWTH
RURAL AREAS
AGRICULTURE
HUMAN CAPITAL
GOVERNMENT SPENDING POLICY
GOVERNANCE
LIVING STANDARDS INDICATORS
INCOME INEQUALITIES
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
HOUSING CONDITIONS
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES
World Bank
Poverty in Bangladesh : Building on Progress
geographic_facet South Asia
Bangladesh
description 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.
author World Bank
author_facet World Bank
author_sort World Bank
title Poverty in Bangladesh : Building on Progress
title_short Poverty in Bangladesh : Building on Progress
title_full Poverty in Bangladesh : Building on Progress
title_fullStr Poverty in Bangladesh : Building on Progress
title_full_unstemmed Poverty in Bangladesh : Building on Progress
title_sort poverty in bangladesh : building on progress
publisher Washington, DC
publishDate 2013
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/12/2300143/bangladesh-poverty-bangladesh-building-progress
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15303
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