EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Are the Enclaves on the Same Boat? An Investigation on the Development Indicators of Dahagram–Angarpota of Bangladesh

Farjana Misu, Mst. Asma Khatun and Mohammad Amirul Islam

South Asian Survey, 2021, vol. 28, issue 2, 318-340

Abstract: Enclaves are the most distressed areas in the world where the ray of development hardly reaches. This study aims to evaluate the progress in the development in Dahagram–Angarpota enclave of Bangladesh after the initiation of 24-h open corridor access through the Indian territory in 2011. The study reveals that after 24-h open access through the corridor, the enclave achieved substantial positive changes in all the five indicators, namely, economic, social and infrastructural, technological, health and demographic indicators. However, the achievement in the four influential factors of development such as income, wealth, poverty and food security are still below the national level. Binary logistic regression model identified a positive change in income–wealth index of households through the changes in corridor access, education, electricity supply, number of livestock and involvement with micro credit. In the process of raising income–wealth, achieving food security and alleviating poverty, this study has suggested some policy recommendations that would guide different development programmes in the area.

Keywords: Regional economy; security issues; Southeast Asia; trans-border co-operation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0971523120947318 (text/html)

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:sae:soasur:v:28:y:2021:i:2:p:318-340

DOI: 10.1177/0971523120947318

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in South Asian Survey
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().

 
Page updated 2025-03-19
Handle: RePEc:sae:soasur:v:28:y:2021:i:2:p:318-340