Food, Agriculture and Economic Situation of Bangladesh

Dr Haradhan Mohajan ()

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This study aims to investigate the food, agriculture and economic situation of Bangladesh in some details. Although it faces various problems in economic progress since the independent in 1971, in the last forty years the increase of food production, economic development and poverty reduction of the country became remarkably. Bangladesh is a densely populated developing country in the Southern Asia. The government of Bangladesh is trying efficiently to reduce poverty of the country. In Bangladesh a large mass of the populations still live below the poverty line, heavily undernourished with inadequate access to safe and nutritious food for a healthy life. The data of the study were collected through the secondary sources of the country. Debt burden is increasing rapidly over time due to increase in the budget deficit. Both the internal and external debts of the government are increasing every year. This study reveals that the country has to do more to reach the millennium development goals. In Bangladesh, during 2000 to 2005, income poverty reduced from 48.9% to 40.0% and 2005 to 2010 reduced from 40% to 31.50%. An attempt has been taken here to show the ways to increase food production and economic development of the country.

Keywords: Food prices; Poverty; Food aid; Inflation; Mother and child malnutrition; Subsidies in food; Food and cash transfer. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-02-16, Revised 2013-08-18
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/54240/1/MPRA_paper_54240.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:54240

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().