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The role of training in reducing poverty: the case of the ultra‐poor in B angladesh
Author(s) -
Khan Mohammad Aktaruzzaman,
Ali Anees Janee
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of training and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.558
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1468-2419
pISSN - 1360-3736
DOI - 10.1111/ijtd.12041
Subject(s) - poverty , poverty level , training (meteorology) , human capital , intervention (counseling) , population , economic growth , psychology , socioeconomics , economics , geography , environmental health , medicine , psychiatry , meteorology
Although microcredit is considered the main vehicle for increasing the income of the poor and alleviating poverty in B angladesh, it is now well recognised that more than this is needed to reach the ultra poor in rural areas. Consequently, almost half of the B angladesh population is in some way linked to non‐governmental organizations' development programmes, at the centre of which is poverty alleviation. The study reported here developed a comprehensive cross‐sectional intervention to examine whether the income of those who participated in the training programmes of non‐governmental organizations was related to that participation. The study was carried out in three leading organizations in three districts of B angladesh using a quantitative associational research design. Three hundred responses were analysed using multiple regression analysis to elicit information from ultra poor clients who had received training. The results suggest that the post‐training income level of the trainees was negatively rather than positively related to the fact of their participation in training, the opposite of what human capital theory would lead us to expect.