Dhaka Tribune published an article writing that only in a few exceptional cases, a well-orchestrated strategy of making growth more inclusive was able to simultaneously attain higher growth and lower inequality. The article mentions a paper titled Ascent, Descent, Churning, Persistence and Permanent Escape: Contemporary Poverty Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh, the authors provided new evidence on the poverty dynamics in Bangladesh in the 2010s using the three rounds of a large-scale rural representative panel data of the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) of 5,024 households generated by IFPRI-Bangladesh.
50 years of Bangladesh: Why chase higher growth rates if even distribution can do more for the same? (Dhaka Tribune)
December 10, 2021