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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.