Proceedings of 11th Asian Business Research Conference
26-27 December, 2014, BIAM Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, ISBN: 978-1-922069-68-9
Target of Improving Poverty Alleviation Trek: A
Case of Bangladesh
Md. Amzad Hossain*
Though Bangladesh has achieved considerable progress in reducing head count
poverty and poverty gap ratio but hunger poverty reduction and employment
generation should be given more attention at the present time. According to MDG
report last 2014,Bangladesh has made commendable progress in respect of
eradication of poverty and hunger. It has sustained a GDP growth rate of 6 percent or
above in recent years that has played a positive role in eradicating poverty. The
robust growth has been accompanied by corresponding improvements in several
social indicators such as increased life expectancy and lower fertility rate despite
having one of the world’s highest population densities. This inclusive growth has
resulted in impressive poverty reduction from 56.7 percent in 1991-92 to 31.5 percent
in 2010; the rate of reduction being faster in the present decade than the earlier ones
(MDG report last, 2014). The latest HIES 2010 data show that the incidence of
poverty has declined on an average 1.74 percentage points in Bangladesh between
2000 and 2010 against the MDG target of 1.20 percentage points. The estimated
poverty headcount ratio for 2013 is 26.2 percent. Bangladesh has already met one of
the indicators of target 1 by bringing down the poverty gap ratio to 6.5 against 2015
target of 8.0 (HIES Survey, 2010) .The study aims to provide a systematic overview of
Bangladesh’s development progress since its independence in 1971 to the present
epoch regarding poverty alleviation trek. The main objective of the study is to
investigate some important issues like poverty, inequality, unemployment scenery and
social instability in the context of Bangladesh. The method of the study has been used
to identify and review of Bangladesh government and UN published report
analytically. In conclusion, the challenges with regard to the dropping income disparity
and the low economic involvement of women also remain as major concerns. In
addition, reducing inequality, accelerating poverty lessening, moreover how to change
the nature of the growth process should be prioritize for Bangladesh to consider
sincerely.
Field of Research: Economics (Poverty and Human Development)
*Md. Amzad Hossain, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Green University of
Bangladesh, Email: amzad.soc@green.edu.bd
Proceedings of 11th Asian Business Research Conference
26-27 December, 2014, BIAM Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, ISBN: 978-1-922069-68-9
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