Making Work Pay in Bangladesh: Employment, Growth, and Poverty Reduction

Marcin Sasin and Pierella Paci

No 6437 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: The objective of this report is to analyze the important roles of labor markets, employment, productivity, and labor income in facilitating shared growth and promoting poverty reduction in Bangladesh. First, the report provides a background discussion of poverty, reform, and growth in Bangladesh. Following that, it gives an overview of the labor market, describing the country's demographics, the institutional structure of the labor market, and the labor market indicators. Then a poverty profile of the labor market is developed, followed by a discussion of the income sources and a decomposition of poverty reduction. A number of selected issues are discussed in the final section, including rural versus urban conditions; women, and children in the labor market; self-employment and household employment; and socioeconomic inequalities.

Keywords: Social Protections and Labor-Labor Markets Health; Nutrition and Population-Population Policies Social Protections and Labor-Labor Policies Poverty Reduction-Rural Poverty Reduction Health; Nutrition and Population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8213-7532-7
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