The study of poverty dynamics is important for effective poverty
alleviation policies because the changes in income poverty are also
accompanied by changes in socioeconomic factors such as literacy,
gender parity in school, health care, infant mortality, and asset
holdings. In order to examine the dynamics of poverty, information
from 1,212 households in 32 rural villages in Bangladesh was
collected in December 2004 and December 2009. This book reports the
analytical results from quantitative and qualitative surveys from
the same households at two points of time, which yielded the panel
data for understanding the changes in situations of poverty.
Efforts have been made to include the most recent research from
diverse disciplines including economics, statistics, anthropology,
education, health care, and vulnerability study. Specifically,
findings from logistic regression analysis, polychoric principal
component analysis, kernel density function, income mobility with
the help of the Markov chain model, and child nutrition status from
anthropometric measures have been presented. Asset holdings and
liabilities of the chronically poor as well as those of three other
economic groups (the descending non-poor, the ascending poor, and
the non-poor) are analyzed statistically. The degrees of
vulnerability to poverty are examined by years of schooling,
landholding size, gender of household head, social capital, and
occupation. The multiple logistic regression model was used to
identify important risk factors for a household's vulnerability. In
2009, some of the basic characteristics of the chronically poor
were: higher percentage and number of female-headed households,
higher dependency ratio, lower levels of education, fewer years of
schooling, and limited employment. There was a low degree of
mobility of households from one poverty status to another in the
period 2004-2009, implying that the process of economic development
and high economic growth in the macroeconomy during this time
failed to improve the poverty situation in rural Bangladesh.
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