Returns from Education in Rural Bangladesh

Mahabub Hossain

Chapter 13 in Trade, Planning and Rural Development, 1990, pp 199-219 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The most dismal performance of the Bangladesh economy since independence is perhaps in the field of basic education. The literacy rate is very low and has remained stagnant for a long time: 23.8 per cent in 1981 compared to 24.3 per cent in 1974 and 22 per cent in 1961.1 About 40 per cent of the primary school age population never attend school, and among those who enrol in school about 31 per cent drop out by Grade 2, and 70 per cent by Grade 5.2 According to the 1981 census, in the prime school age group of 10–14, 33 per cent of the population attended school in 1981 (31 per cent in rural areas, compared to 45 per cent in urban areas); and 38 per cent among male population, compared to 28 per cent among females. For the male population there was in fact a decline in the school attendance rate during the 1974–81 period.

Keywords: Household Head; Modern Variety; Agricultural Income; Universal Primary Education; Large Landowner (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11415-3_14

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