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Returns from Education in Rural Bangladesh

In: Trade, Planning and Rural Development

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  • Mahabub Hossain

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The most dismal performance of the Bangladesh economy since independence is perhaps in the field of basic education. The literacy rate is very low and has remained stagnant for a long time: 23.8 per cent in 1981 compared to 24.3 per cent in 1974 and 22 per cent in 1961.1 About 40 per cent of the primary school age population never attend school, and among those who enrol in school about 31 per cent drop out by Grade 2, and 70 per cent by Grade 5.2 According to the 1981 census, in the prime school age group of 10–14, 33 per cent of the population attended school in 1981 (31 per cent in rural areas, compared to 45 per cent in urban areas); and 38 per cent among male population, compared to 28 per cent among females. For the male population there was in fact a decline in the school attendance rate during the 1974–81 period.

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  • Mahabub Hossain, 1990. "Returns from Education in Rural Bangladesh," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Azizur Rahman Khan & Rehman Sobhan (ed.), Trade, Planning and Rural Development, chapter 13, pages 199-219, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11415-3_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11415-3_14
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    1. Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, 2006. "Returns to Education in Bangladesh," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(4), pages 453-468.
    2. Mohammad Niaz Asadullah (SKOPE, Department of Economics), "undated". "Returns to Education in Bangladesh," QEH Working Papers qehwps130, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.

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