This article argues that the extreme poor warrant specific analytical and policy focus. It attempts to identify the extreme poor in rural Bangladesh by devising sensitive targeting indicators that are effective in minimising leakage to the non-poor while ensuring broad coverage of the target...

The paper tracks spatial inequality in social progress in Bangladesh as evidenced from the district-level data. It uses a multivariate framework to explore the differential pace of social progress at the spatial level. The 'instructive' outliers and deviants are identified in terms of...

Five ideas constitute the central message of this study. First, urban rickshaw pullers come from a very poor economic background consistent with the characteristics of chronic poverty. Second, rickshaw pulling provides a route of modest upward mobility for those among the rural chronically poor...