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Ecology, Inequality, and Poverty: The Case of Bangladesh

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This paper explores the connections between environmental damages, inequality, and poverty for Bangladesh. Starting with a new concept of national income and its distribution, which takes ecological damages into account, standard measures of poverty and inequality are modified by using the adjusted income distribution for their measurement. Under fairly conservative assumptions of modest environmental damages and a uniform distribution of the damages among the population, it is shown that both inequality and poverty worsen when environmental deterioration is taken into account. From a policy perspective, since there is no inevitable environmental Kuznets curve, developing countries like Bangladesh can enhance the poverty alleviation effects of growth by improving environmental quality through effective interventions.

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  • Haider Ali Khan, 1997. "Ecology, Inequality, and Poverty: The Case of Bangladesh," Asian Development Review (ADR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 15(02), pages 164-179.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:adrxxx:v:15:y:1997:i:02:n:s0116110597000109
    DOI: 10.1142/S0116110597000109
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    1. Khan, Haider, 2024. "Development Orders and Disorders: Real Competition in Complex Global Capitalist System, China’s Ambiguous Case, and the Need for Democratic Socialism in the 21st Century," MPRA Paper 119640, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Khan, Haider, 2024. "Japanese Aid and Economic Development of Bangladesh," MPRA Paper 119877, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Khan, Haider, 2024. "Ecological Crisis and the Global South Internationalist Ecosocialism : A Strategy for Comprehensive Sustainable Non-capitalist Development in the Global South," MPRA Paper 119639, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Khan, Haider, 2024. "Women’s Socially Embedded Capabilities and Development: A Theory-based Empirical Investigation," MPRA Paper 119908, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Khan, Haider, 2024. "Africa as Part of a New Non-neocolonial Global South: A Strategy for African Development beyond the East Asian Model in the 21st Century : Integrating Markets and the Enabling Developmental State," MPRA Paper 120309, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Khan, Haider, 2024. "Trans-development and the Global South: Counter-hegemonic Strategy for Building an Ecological Global Civilization," MPRA Paper 120325, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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