Climbing up the Ladder and Watching Out for the Fall: Poverty Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh

Autor:	Akhter Ahmed, Salauddin Tauseef
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science Poverty Safety net General Social Sciences Fixed effects model Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Rural poverty Women's empowerment Developmental and Educational Psychology Remittance Demographic economics Business Rural area Panel data
Zdroj:	Social Indicators Research. 160:309-340
ISSN:	1573-0921 0303-8300
DOI:	10.1007/s11205-021-02808-2
Popis:	This paper analyses poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh using a nationally representative panel dataset of 5,020 rural households interviewed in 2011/12, 2015, and 2019. Findings show that education, savings, assets, international remittance, non-farm employment, substantial safety net transfers, and women’s empowerment are key factors in breaking chronic and transient poverty. Rural infrastructure development and market access through improved connectivity are also critical for sustained poverty alleviation. On the other hand, woman-headed households (widowed, divorced or abandoned) are found to be particularly vulnerable to impoverishments. The results are consistent across multinomial logit, simultaneous quantile regression, and panel fixed effects models. Thus, policies and programs that address the determinants of chronic and transient poverty identified in this study hold promise for sustained poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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