The paper argues that much of the farm-nonfarm labor mobility in rural Bangladesh is in nature an intergenerational occupational choice-induced change rather than a sectoral shift within the current generation. Bangladesh has a large share of youth (aged 15-29 years) in the labor force, and it...

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...