Much has been written about the impact of various interventions, including microfinance, on poverty in rural Bangladesh, and yet many issues still remain poorly understood. The main analytical problem is that in order to appreciate the impact of interventions, it is first necessary to understand...

This paper investigates the link between asset accumulation and poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh by using a recently conducted large-scale household survey and applying a conceptual framework that adapts the well-known entitlement approach to the dynamic context. The study found evidence of...

This paper uses a novel conceptual framework and a large-scale household survey to study the phenomena of crisis and coping in rural Bangladesh. The empirical exercise is composed of two parts. The first part examines the prevalence of various kinds of shocks in rural Bangladesh and identified a...

This paper investigates the patterns of inequality that have emerged in rural Bangladesh in the decade of the 2000s. Two findings stand out clearly –distribution of income has become more unequal over the decade, but, somewhat surprisingly, distribution of consumption has remained more or less...

Three aspects of rural poverty in Bangladesh have been examined in this paper: the trend of poverty over the decade of the 2000s, the evolving pattern of poverty among different population groups over the same decade, and identification of the major determinants of poverty in rural Bangladesh....

This paper seeks guidance for future directions of a social protection system in rural Bangladesh on the basis of lessons learnt on the ground. For this purpose, an attempt was made to glean insights about the strengths and weaknesses of the existing social protection system by utilising a...