Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Muhammad Badiuzzaman () and Syed Mansoob Murshed ()
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Muhammad Badiuzzaman: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Syed Mansoob Murshed: Erasmus University Rotterdam

Chapter Chapter 8 in Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia, 2015, pp 145-162 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We analyse rural household livelihood and child school enrolment decisions in the post-conflict setting of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region of Bangladesh. What makes this paper innovative is the use of current subjective perceptions regarding the possibility of violence in the future and past actual experiences of violence in explaining household economic decision-making. Preferences are endogenous in line with behavioural economics. Regression results show that heightened subjective perceptions of future violence and past actual experiences of conflict influence current consumption and child enrolment and could encourage risky mixed crop cultivation. The trauma emanating from past experiences combined with current high perceptions of risk of violenceRisk of violence may induce bolder and riskier behaviour in line with prospect theories of risk. Furthermore, a post-conflict household-level Phoenix or economic revival factor may be in operation, based partially on greater within-group trust.

Keywords: Perceptions of violence; Post-conflict reconstruction; Risk; Livelihood decision-making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-420-7_8

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