A Macro Policy for Poverty Eradication through Structural Change

Bangladesh, cooperatives, institutions, land, micro-credit, women

Low Income Countries and International Monetary System: Report of a Group of Experts

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Régimes intermédiaires et développement du capitalisme industriel dans le Tiers Monde

Sobhan Rehman. Régimes intermédiaires et développement du capitalisme industriel dans le Tiers Monde. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 29, n°115, 1988. Industrialisation et développement. Modèles, expériences, perspectives, sous la direction de Abdelkader Sid Ahmed et Alain Valette. pp. 557-567

The Crisis Of External Dependence

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How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over the same period. This paper argues that the persistence of poverty in Bangladesh originates less in the lack of resources for its alleviation than in the failures of governance. These failures consist of a lack of a developmental vision, absence of a commitment that goes beyond rhetoric and that could translate the vision into policies and programmes, and weak capacities at the administrative, technical and political levels to implement such programmes. As a corollary of these failures, successive governments have surrendered ownership over national policy agendas in the field of poverty alleviation to international donors and NGOs. Furthermore, different areas of policy–making have been appropriated by special interest groups pursuing sectional concerns ... En 1995/96, 47.5 pour cent de la population du Bangladesh vivait encore en dessous du seuil de pauvreté. Même si la tendance est en baisse par rapport aux années 1983/84 où ce chiffre atteignait 62.6 pour cent, le nombre absolu de pauvres a néanmoins progressé au cours de cette période. Selon ce document, si la pauvreté se maintient au Bangladesh, c’est moins par insuffisance des ressources consacrées à lutter contre elle que du fait de lacunes dans la gestion des affaires publiques. Celles–ci comptent notamment l’absence d’une vision du développement à long terme et un manque d’engagement pour inscrire cette vision dans des politiques et des programmes d’action, au–delà de la rhétorique. Les capacités administratives, techniques et politiques nécessaires pour mettre en oeuvre ces programmes font également défaut. Conséquence de ces lacunes : les gouvernements successifs ont abandonné aux donateurs internationaux et aux ONG la responsabilité des actions de lutte contre la pauvreté ...

A Macro Policy for Poverty Eradication through Structural Change

This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the economy and leaves them captives in the so called informal sector, characterized by low productivity and low earning capacity. In such a system the poor remain individualized and hence disempowered which compels them to interface with the market economy on highly inequitable terms which relegates them to the lowest tiers of the value addition chain. The need for a macro-policy designed to eliminate poverty is premised on the argument that poverty originates in the structural features of society which can only be addressed at the macro-level. Policy interventions, to redesign the structural sources of poverty, bring into consideration issues of social, political as well as economic reform. [Discussion Paper No. 2005/03]Bangladesh, cooperatives, institutions, land, micro-credit, women

Bangladesh at 40 Looking Back and Moving Forward

Over the last year we have been commemorating the 40th year of Bangladesh’s independence. In these 40 years Bangladesh has registered many gains for which we should feel proud. We have established a globally competitive garment industry moved ahead of India in particular areas of human development and gender parity, extended micro-credit to 25 million women and drastically reduced aid dependence through an explosive growth in remittances by our hard working migrants. We have furthermore held four reasonably free and fair elections where incumbent regimes have been replaced by opposition parties through the ballot box. These are not inconsiderable achievements for a country once written off as a basket cast.Bangladesh, development

Public enterprise in an intermediate regime: a study in politicall economy of Bangladesh

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