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Dynamics of food‐assisted development strategies in Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Dowlah C. A. F.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2397.00193
Subject(s) - summit , poverty , malnutrition , economic growth , mainstream , food security , chronic poverty , development economics , food insecurity , community development , national development , political science , human development (humanity) , order (exchange) , business , economics , geography , agriculture , poverty reduction , archaeology , finance , physical geography , law
This paper examines the dynamics of food‐assisted development strategies in Bangladesh focusing on the ultra‐poor women and children. The magnitude of poverty and malnutrition has been examined to determine how chronic food insecurity and malnutrition deter the ultra‐poor from taking active part in the mainstream development programmes in Bangladesh. Forces and factors that led to policy and programme shifts over the years, including the imperatives of national development experience, World Food Summit 1996 and the Enabling Development Approach of World Food Program, have been scrutinised in order to suggest strategies for directing food assistance more intensely towards community and human resource development, instead of physical or infrastructure development, as done in the past benefiting more the non‐poor than the poor.