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POVERTY ALEVEATION
Contents1. What Is Poverty?2. General Overview of the Bangladesh
Economic3. Rural and Urban Poverty4. Causes of Rural and Urban Poverty5. Steps for Poverty Alleviation in
Bangladesh
POVERTY
Poverty is the deprivation of food, shelter, money and clothing when people can’t satisfy their basic
needs. Poverty can be understood simply as a lack of money or more broadly in terms of
barriers to everyday human life.
TYPES OF POVERTY
(1) Absolute Poverty : (Destitution) It refers to the state of severe deprivation of basic human needs.
(2) Relative Poverty : It is defined contextually as Economic inequality in location or society
in which people live.
VICIOUS CIRCLE OF POVERTY
Low Income
Low saving
Low investmen
tLow
capital
Low producing
power
Vicious circle of poverty there are five main causes.such as..
Low per capita Population explosion Unemployment
Non qualitative Technology Low Wages Social & Religious reasons
Illiteracy Political instability Largeness of family
High inflation rate Inequitable distribution of land
Misuse of natural resources
Inadequate employment Under developed
communications systemAbsence of food
reserves
Causes of poverty in Bangladesh
Illiteracy
• Poor people can not afford to send their children to school
• Thus a bigger part of society remains illiterate.
Malnutrition
• Poverty affected people are unable to buy nutritious food.
• Sometime they can not manage three meals a day and that’s why they suffer from malnutrition.
Shelter Problem
• Poverty affected people do not have proper living place.
• Sometime poverty compel them to sleep under open sky.
Impacts of Poverty
Lack of Clothing
• Poor people can not manage proper clothing for them.
• They wear rag dress. During winter many poor people suffer from cold, even some of them die for want of warm cloth.
Lack of Health Service
• Because of poverty many people do not get proper medical treatment.
• They suffer a lot from various diseases even die without any treatment.
. Increasing Crime
• When people are unable to fulfill their basic needs they are compelled to involve in various crime
Increasing Child Labor
• : Because of poverty many parents send their children to do different types of work at an early age instead of sending them to school.
• Thus child labor is increasing day by day.
Slowdown Development
• As poverty affected people can not contribute to national income thus they slowdown development process of our country.
Social Discriminati
on
• Poverty creates discrimination between rich and poor.
LITERACY RATES IN BANGLADESH
In 2005, the national literacy rate in Bangladesh was 51.9 percent; in rural areas, 46.7 percent of the population is literate and in urban areas 67.9 percent.
POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROCESS IN BANGLADESH
Although poverty alleviation process in Bangladesh is very slow but the happy news is that Bangladesh is progressing. We can easily understand progress of poverty alleviation process of Bangladesh by comparing the previous two decade’s poverty rate that are given below.
Ways of poverty alleviation in Bangladesh
1.Education•Education is compared to light and poverty is compared to darkness. Poverty can not affect us if we are educated. Educated nation is never underdeveloped.
•So education is a must for us if we want to get rid of the curse of poverty.
2. Employment Opportunity
•Unemployment is one of the most important causes of poverty in our country.
•In order to eradicate poverty, employment opportunity must be enhanced in government sector as well as in private sector.
3. Population
Check
•: We know that Bangladesh is an over populated country. It is very difficult for the government to ensure proper facilities to the excess population and that’s we can not lead a standard life style.
•So we should convince people to accept family planning in order to control birth rate to check population.
Ways of poverty alleviation in Bangladesh
4. Proper Utilization of
Natural Resources
•Almighty Allah has blessed our country with huge amount of natural resources. Our prosperity depends on proper utilization of those natural resources.
•So we should make the best use of our natural resources to erase poverty from our fate.
5. Train up Manpower
•We regretfully say that our country is over populated! But population of a country can never be a problem.
•If we can train them up properly they will surely turn into asset and will play a vital role in eradicating poverty from society.
7. Promotion of Gender Equality •Women fall into poverty more easily and more frequently than
men. They constitute majority of the people living in poverty.
Ways of poverty alleviation in Bangladesh
8. Self-employment
•self-employment played a central role in poverty eradication. Access of the poor to land, capital and other productive resources must be improved.
9. Reduction of Hunger
and Malnutrition
•Hunger and malnutrition were the worst manifestations of poverty. The chronically hungry cannot grow out of poverty.
10. Social Service
•Social services must be developed with more social investments by governments and less military expenditures, if poverty is to be defeated.
11.Jakat12. Micro-credit Program13. Allowance Scheme
14. Helping Peasantry 15. Good Governance and Effective Administration
By achieving universal primary education. By promoting gender equality and
empowering women. By removing unemployment problem. By improving maternal health. By eliminating corruption. By developing a global partnership. By ensuring increased local govt.
participation to evaluate & eradicate poverty.
Another most imprtant ways of removing poverty
By exporting manpower.
Flowchart of poverty reduction strategy
Poverty Reduction
Vison for the poverty reduction strategyKey issues in building
strategies
4 supporting Strategies
Block 1:Enhanching
Pro-poor growth
Block 2:Bosting critical sectors for pro-Poor economic
growth
Block 3:DevisingEffective
Safety Nets &Targetedprograms
Block 4:Ensuring
SocialDevelopment
Ensuring participation ,social inclusion and empwerment Promoting good govermance
Providing service deliveryCaring for Environment and sustainable Development
Consultation at various levels
Monitring and
evaluation of PRSImplementation
Medium-term
Macroeconomic
framework
4 strategic Blocks
STEPS TAKEN BY BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY
1. Emphasize
on Education
2. Job Creation
3. Immigration Scheme
4.Training
5. Developme
nt in Agriculture
6. Birth Rate
Control
7. Old-age Allowance Scheme
8. Food-for-Work
Program
9. Encourage
NGO
1. Shortage of fund
2. Lake of proper
planning.
3. Slow economic growth
4. Corruption
in every sector
5. Lack of Proper
monitoring
6. Lack of sufficient
infrastructure
7. Slow industrial
development
8. Political instability
11. Lake of
technology
Government Barriers to Alleviate Poverty:
COMPARISON WITH SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRIES
Rank(Subcontin
ent)
Rank (Asia)
Rank World Country 2011 GDP(PPP)Billions of USD
1 2 3 India $4,469.7632 11 27 Pakistan $489.4363 17 42 Bangladesh $282.9454 25 65 Sri-Lanka $115.2205 34 96 Nepal $37.7996 38 106 Afghanistan $30.0127 46 155 Bhutan $4.2858 49 164 Maldives $2.735
Country PopulationHuman
Development
index
Literacy Rate
Corruption
perception index
Unemployment
Rate
GDPPer
Capita(US)
Bangladesh 161,083,804 0.524 43.1% 2.1 5.00% $1,700 Malaysia 29,179,952 0.823 88.7% 5.1 3.10% $15800Bhutan 716,896 0.613 47% 5.2 4.00% $6,200Maldives 394,451 0.749 96.3% 2.8 14.50% $8,800 India 1,205,073,612 0.609 61% 3.4 9.80% $3,700
Pakistan 190,291,129 0.562 49.9% 2.5 5.60% $2,800
Comparison of parameters which effects poverty
Chart of poverty around the world
Map of world poverty by country, showing percentage of population living on less than $1.25 per day. Information is based on different years (2000-2006) for different countries. Data is missing for countries coloured grey.
Poverty population grows over the years.
Conclusion Poverty can be reduce if jobs creation for
the poor family so they can earn a living and provide more opportunity for more children to be educated.
Therefore, social entrepreneur are helping out, trying to prevent poverty from increasing.
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