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Bangladesh agriculture: Growth, stability and poverty alleviation
Author(s) -
Islam Nurul
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.4010030403
Subject(s) - poverty , agriculture , rural poverty , public distribution system , business , order (exchange) , distribution (mathematics) , food security , economic growth , rural area , economics , agricultural economics , development economics , geography , political science , finance , mathematical analysis , mathematics , archaeology , law
The challenges facing Bangladesh are: (a) how to accelerate agricultural growth through labour‐intensive technological progress and enlarged access to inputs, credits and assets on the part of the poor farmers, and (b) to prevent acute short‐term food deprivations by achieving a reasonable degree of stability of food supplies and prices. In order to make a dent on rural poverty the expansion of non‐farm rural employment in trade, services and rural industries and innovative public employment projects, as well as public food distribution schemes, targeted towards the poorest, are needed.