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...