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Regional Inequality in Bangladesh in the 2000s: Re-Visiting the East-West Divide Debate

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  • Zulfiqar Ali
  • Mohammad Yunus
  • Binayak Sen

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The term “East-West divide†as a way of describing regional disparity in Bangladesh has emerged in the policy discourse only in the 2000s. The administrative divisions belonging to the western part of the country are traditionally considered to be economically backward than the areas located in the eastern part of the country. This has been partly supported by the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) data. The successive HIES rounds since 1983/84 showed the welfare level to be higher in the East than in the West, as measured by the level of per capita consumption expenditure. Large spatial poverty differentials between the eastern and western regions have also been recorded by successive “poverty mapping†exercises starting from the late 1990s.

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  • Zulfiqar Ali & Mohammad Yunus & Binayak Sen, 2015. "Regional Inequality in Bangladesh in the 2000s: Re-Visiting the East-West Divide Debate," Working Papers id:7601, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Ahmed, Mansur & Goodwin, Barry, "undated". "Agricultural Mechanization and Non-Farm Labor Supply of Farm Households: Evidence from Bangladesh," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 236131, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    2. Mohammad Monirul Hasan & Jalal Uddin & Mohammad Habibullah Pulok & Nabila Zaman & Mohammad Hajizadeh, 2020. "Socioeconomic Inequalities in Child Malnutrition in Bangladesh: Do They Differ by Region?," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(3), pages 1-14, February.
    3. Syed Basher & Francesca Di Iorio & Stefano Fachin, 2020. "Regional Income Dynamics in Bangladesh: The Road to a Balanced Development is in the Middle," DSS Empirical Economics and Econometrics Working Papers Series 2021/1, Centre for Empirical Economics and Econometrics, Department of Statistics, "Sapienza" University of Rome.

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