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Climbing up the ladder and watching out for the fall: Poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh

In: Securing food for all in Bangladesh

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  • Ahmed, Akhter
  • Tauseef, Salauddin

Abstract

In Bangladesh, the pace of economic growth accelerated in recent years, with real GDP growing at a rate of 6.5 percent on average per year between 2010 and 2016, reaching 7.3 percent in 2017—the highest in the country’s history. The incidence of poverty in Bangladesh was cut in half in the past 16 years, dropping from 48.9 percent in 2000 to 24.3 percent in 2016. In rural areas, poverty headcount declined from 52.3 percent to 26.4 percent over the same period (BBS 2017).

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  • Ahmed, Akhter & Tauseef, Salauddin, 2021. "Climbing up the ladder and watching out for the fall: Poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh," IFPRI book chapters, in: Securing food for all in Bangladesh, chapter 13, pages 453-482, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    JEL classification:

    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets

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