Rural Poverty in Bangladesh: Trends and Determinants

Mahabub Hossain and Binayak Sen

Asian Development Review (ADR), 1992, vol. 10, issue 01, 1-34

Abstract: Studies on poverty in Bangladesh have focused on the measurement of the poverty level and trends based on income and nutrition deficiency. Most studies agree that poverty is widespread, and that the poverty situation deteriorated alarmingly in the 1970s. There is, however, controversy about the poverty trend in the 1980s, and few studies have looked in depth into the determinants of poverty…

Date: 1992
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