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 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...