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 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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2002-12
Subjects:	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, 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, HEALTH PLANNING, MATERNAL MORTALITY, AGRICULTURE, GOVERNMENT SPENDING POLICY, GOVERNANCE, LIVING STANDARDS INDICATORS, INCOME INEQUALITIES, SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, HOUSING CONDITIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT RATES,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/12/2300143/bangladesh-poverty-bangladesh-building-progress http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15303
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