Bangladesh agriculture: Growth, stability and poverty alleviation

Nurul Islam

Journal of International Development, 1991, vol. 3, issue 4, 447-465

Abstract: The challenges facing Bangladesh are: (a) how to accelerate agricultural growth through labour‐intensive technological progress and enlarged access to inputs, credits and assets on the part of the poor farmers, and (b) to prevent acute short‐term food deprivations by achieving a reasonable degree of stability of food supplies and prices. In order to make a dent on rural poverty the expansion of non‐farm rural employment in trade, services and rural industries and innovative public employment projects, as well as public food distribution schemes, targeted towards the poorest, are needed.

Date: 1991
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