Government and Rural Transformation : Role of Public Spending and Policies in Bangladesh
The British finally granted independence to India in 1947 but the British India was divided into two independent states, India and Pakistan, in the acrimonious process of granting independence. Twenty four years after this landmark episode, another dramatic episode occurred in 1971 in the sub-contin...
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Absolute Poverty Accountability ADB Agricultural Development agricultural economy Agricultural Extension Agricultural growth Agricultural Labour agricultural production agricultural products Agricultural Research Agricultural Research Institute Agriculture AntiCorruption Aquaculture ARI Asian Development Bank average income Budget Deficit budgetary process Bureaucracy business development cash crops child mortality child nutrition chronic poverty civil society clean drinking water clean water collusion Commercial Bank comparative advantage Competitiveness consumers Corruption crime crop varieties data collection DECENTRALIZATION democracy development economics development strategy Direct Investment distributional effects dysfunctional governance Economic Cooperation economic development economic growth economic implications economic policies Economic Relations Elasticity exports FAO farm activities farm employment farm households farm income farm production farm products Farm Sector farm size farmers female education female literacy fiscal policies Fish Fish Production Fisheries food commodities Food for Education food needs Food Policy food prices food products Food Security Foreign Aid Forestry Forestry Research Forests free press GDP global markets GOOD GOVERNANCE grain Gross Domestic Product growth performance Growth Rate Growth Rates Harvest household consumption Household Income Household Survey household surveys human resource HYV IFDC IFPRI impact on poverty Incidence of Poverty Income Income Elasticity of Demand income groups income growth income level income levels inefficiency Inequality Infant mortality inflation rate institutional framework Insurance interest rate International Development International Fertilizer Development Center International Food Policy Research Institute International Rice Research Institute inventory Investment in Agricultural Research investment rates IRRI Irrigation lack of knowledge Livestock Livestock Products Livestock Research Local Governance macro-economic policies macroeconomic policies Macroeconomic Policy malnutrition Microfinance middle income countries middle income country MOA NARS National Agricultural Research National Agricultural Research System National Income National Policies National Research nominal income nonfarm income nongovernmental organisations NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS open economy Per Capita Income political development political economy political institutions political leaders political leadership political system Poor poor governance Potato Poultry Poverty Estimates poverty impact poverty line Poverty Reduction poverty reduction impact poverty reduction strategies Poverty Reduction Strategy Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper price levels primary school Principal Agents production inputs Public Expenditures Public Spending Purchasing Power Purchasing Power Parity regulatory institutions Rice Rice Research Rural Rural Areas Rural Credit Rural Development rural economy Rural electrification Rural Employment rural farm Rural Growth Rural Households rural income rural infrastructure rural life rural people rural producers Rural Road rural roads rural sector rural towns Rural Transformation sanitation savings secondary schools small farms Social Development socioeconomic development Structural Change subjective perceptions Sugarcane Targeting Taxation Telephones Total Factor Productivity Transparency UNDP United Nations United Nations Development Programme USAID valuation Value Added Wages war Water Resources Wheat World Trade Organisation WTO Mudahar, Mohinder S. Ahmed, Raisuddin Government and Rural Transformation : Role of Public Spending and Policies in Bangladesh |
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The British finally granted independence to India in 1947 but the British India was divided into two independent states, India and Pakistan, in the acrimonious process of granting independence. Twenty four years after this landmark episode, another dramatic episode occurred in 1971 in the sub-continent's history that saw the emergence of another independent state, the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The same people, who played a vigorous role in the struggle for Pakistan, became desperate to separate from West Pakistan to emerge as an independent nation. Even though the population of East Pakistan was larger than the population of West Pakistan, usurpation of political power by the West through military and dictatorial governments resulted in egregious economic discriminations against the people of East Pakistan. The average per capita income in East Pakistan in 1948-50 was only about 3 percent lower than per capita income in West Pakistan. The income of the people of Bangladesh was stagnant during the Pakistani era. Poverty was widespread. The war of independence caused extensive damage to infrastructure and interrupted economic relations. Poverty level further widened as well as deepened. People, who did not sympathies with the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country, expressed explicit as well as implicit doubt on the viability of this new country. This book provides an analysis of long-term transformation of the e c o n o m y, particularly for agriculture and rural development, since independence. Thus the book fills a gap arising from the change in planning approach and enables Bangladesh to look at transformation during the last 3 decades and develop a vision for the coming decades in the area of agriculture and rural development. Past progress has been phenomenal, particularly when viewed within the background of dismal initial conditions. But, though the general direction of policies has been right, there are many deficiencies in the areas of institutional, infrastructural, technological, and political developments. The progress would have been even faster without these deficiencies. However, what matters now are the future prospects if these deficiencies are not corrected in the coming years. Bangladesh is at the crossroad of the trajectory towards the status of a middle-income economy. Without the corrective measures at this stage, the possibility of economy missing the upward trajectory is very real. |
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Government and Rural Transformation : Role of Public Spending and Policies in Bangladesh |
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okr-10986-163562021-04-23T14:03:28Z Government and Rural Transformation : Role of Public Spending and Policies in Bangladesh Mudahar, Mohinder S. Ahmed, Raisuddin Absolute Poverty Accountability ADB Agricultural Development agricultural economy Agricultural Extension Agricultural growth Agricultural Labour agricultural production agricultural products Agricultural Research Agricultural Research Institute Agriculture AntiCorruption Aquaculture ARI Asian Development Bank average income Budget Deficit budgetary process Bureaucracy business development cash crops child mortality child nutrition chronic poverty civil society clean drinking water clean water collusion Commercial Bank comparative advantage Competitiveness consumers Corruption crime crop varieties data collection DECENTRALIZATION democracy development economics development strategy Direct Investment distributional effects dysfunctional governance Economic Cooperation economic development economic growth economic implications economic policies Economic Relations Elasticity exports FAO farm activities farm employment farm households farm income farm production farm products Farm Sector farm size farmers female education female literacy fiscal policies Fish Fish Production Fisheries food commodities Food for Education food needs Food Policy food prices food products Food Security Foreign Aid Forestry Forestry Research Forests free press GDP global markets GOOD GOVERNANCE grain Gross Domestic Product growth performance Growth Rate Growth Rates Harvest household consumption Household Income Household Survey household surveys human resource HYV IFDC IFPRI impact on poverty Incidence of Poverty Income Income Elasticity of Demand income groups income growth income level income levels inefficiency Inequality Infant mortality inflation rate institutional framework Insurance interest rate International Development International Fertilizer Development Center International Food Policy Research Institute International Rice Research Institute inventory Investment in Agricultural Research investment rates IRRI Irrigation lack of knowledge Livestock Livestock Products Livestock Research Local Governance macro-economic policies macroeconomic policies Macroeconomic Policy malnutrition Microfinance middle income countries middle income country MOA NARS National Agricultural Research National Agricultural Research System National Income National Policies National Research nominal income nonfarm income nongovernmental organisations NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS open economy Per Capita Income political development political economy political institutions political leaders political leadership political system Poor poor governance Potato Poultry Poverty Estimates poverty impact poverty line Poverty Reduction poverty reduction impact poverty reduction strategies Poverty Reduction Strategy Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper price levels primary school Principal Agents production inputs Public Expenditures Public Spending Purchasing Power Purchasing Power Parity regulatory institutions Rice Rice Research Rural Rural Areas Rural Credit Rural Development rural economy Rural electrification Rural Employment rural farm Rural Growth Rural Households rural income rural infrastructure rural life rural people rural producers Rural Road rural roads rural sector rural towns Rural Transformation sanitation savings secondary schools small farms Social Development socioeconomic development Structural Change subjective perceptions Sugarcane Targeting Taxation Telephones Total Factor Productivity Transparency UNDP United Nations United Nations Development Programme USAID valuation Value Added Wages war Water Resources Wheat World Trade Organisation WTO The British finally granted independence to India in 1947 but the British India was divided into two independent states, India and Pakistan, in the acrimonious process of granting independence. Twenty four years after this landmark episode, another dramatic episode occurred in 1971 in the sub-continent's history that saw the emergence of another independent state, the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The same people, who played a vigorous role in the struggle for Pakistan, became desperate to separate from West Pakistan to emerge as an independent nation. Even though the population of East Pakistan was larger than the population of West Pakistan, usurpation of political power by the West through military and dictatorial governments resulted in egregious economic discriminations against the people of East Pakistan. The average per capita income in East Pakistan in 1948-50 was only about 3 percent lower than per capita income in West Pakistan. The income of the people of Bangladesh was stagnant during the Pakistani era. Poverty was widespread. The war of independence caused extensive damage to infrastructure and interrupted economic relations. Poverty level further widened as well as deepened. People, who did not sympathies with the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country, expressed explicit as well as implicit doubt on the viability of this new country. This book provides an analysis of long-term transformation of the e c o n o m y, particularly for agriculture and rural development, since independence. Thus the book fills a gap arising from the change in planning approach and enables Bangladesh to look at transformation during the last 3 decades and develop a vision for the coming decades in the area of agriculture and rural development. Past progress has been phenomenal, particularly when viewed within the background of dismal initial conditions. But, though the general direction of policies has been right, there are many deficiencies in the areas of institutional, infrastructural, technological, and political developments. The progress would have been even faster without these deficiencies. However, what matters now are the future prospects if these deficiencies are not corrected in the coming years. Bangladesh is at the crossroad of the trajectory towards the status of a middle-income economy. Without the corrective measures at this stage, the possibility of economy missing the upward trajectory is very real. 2013-12-05T14:44:10Z 2013-12-05T14:44:10Z 2010-04 978-984-8815-13-7 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16356 en CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Dhaka: The University Press Limited Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research South Asia Bangladesh |