This book examines rural poverty in Bangladesh. Based on detailed
empirical research and surveys of households in Bangladesh, it
provides an accurate portrait of the everyday situations faced by
the rural poor in Bangladesh today, covering all aspects of
household behaviour. All of the key issues are explored, including
health, nutrition, housing conditions, human capital, household
asset and liabilities, gender issues, livelihood strategies,
distribution of household income and expenditure, social capital,
intergenerational mobility of the chronically poor, women's
mobility, shocks and coping strategies, and vulnerability to
poverty. The book focuses in particular on the poorest of the poor
households, the chronically poor, seen by many in the development
community to be the core of the problem of poverty. It shows that
the basic characteristics of the chronically poor households in
rural Bangladesh are: more heavily female-headed households, higher
dependency ratio of children in demographic composition, and
dominated by lower levels of assets, shorter years of schooling and
limited employment opportunity. Throughout, it draws precise
conclusions on the basis of quantitative data, which makes this
book an important resource for policy-makers and development
practitioners, as well as students and researchers.
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