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Measuring Inequality and Poverty in Bangladesh: An Assessment of the Survey Data

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  • Azizur Rahman Khan

    (Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of California, Riverside)

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The paper analyses the usefulness o'% the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey data in measuring inequality and poverty trends by comparing the four such surveys between 1991/92 and 2005. It concludes that the survey data provide reasonable measurements of income inequality that shed useful light on the sources of increasing inequality that has characterised the process of growth since the beginning of the 1990s. The surveys, however, do not provide reliable estimates of personal income (or consumption) and their changes over time.

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  • Azizur Rahman Khan, 2005. "Measuring Inequality and Poverty in Bangladesh: An Assessment of the Survey Data," Bangladesh Development Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), vol. 31(3-4), pages 1-34.
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    1. Khan, Azizur Rahman & Riskin, Carl, 2001. "Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780195136494, Decembrie.
    2. Ravallion, Martin & Sen, Binayak, 1996. "When Method Matters: Monitoring Poverty in Bangladesh," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 44(4), pages 761-792, July.
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    4. Osmani, S. R. & Sen, Binayak, 2011. "Inequality in Rural Bangladesh in the 2000s:Trends and Causes," Bangladesh Development Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), vol. 34(4), pages 1-36, December.
    5. S. R. Osmani & Muhammad Abdul Latif, 2013. "The Pattern and Determinants of Poverty in Rural Bangladesh: 2000-2010," Bangladesh Development Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), vol. 36(2), pages 1-41.
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    Keywords

    Income inequality; Income estimates; Poverty; Gross domestic product; Consumer information; Personal;
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