Transfers for Extreme Poverty Reduction: Implications for Patron-Client Relationships in the Context of Bangladesh's Agricultural Reformation

Lucy Scott

No wp-2014-029, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper investigates how a development intervention which targets extremely poor households with investment capital influences relationships between those households and the landowning elite. It places this investigation in the context of the 'agricultural reformation' of rural Bangladesh, whereby the growth of the non-farm economy and increased connectivity of rural areas are eroding the historical rigid position of the landowning elite at the top of the rural hierarchy.

Keywords: Agriculture; Poverty; Economic power; Qualitative research; Rural development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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