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Sustainable Livelihood Approach for Poverty Alleviation: An Exploratory Study of Coasta l Fishing Communities in Bangladesh

Mohammed Solaiman
Fazlul Kabir Rabbanee
Bangladesh Journal of Political Economy Vol.17 No.2

Summary:

The paper focuses the core elements of the sustainable livelihood approach with special reference to the coastal fishing communities of Bangladesh. The data and information have been collected from six coastal fishermen villages through stratified sampling covering five districts of Bangladesh. The paper empirically

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Updated Poverty Map of Bangladesh

World Bank

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and the World Bank, in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), updated the Poverty Maps for Bangladesh. Poverty mapping is an important statistical instrument that can estimate the poverty incidence at Upazila levels. The new generation of poverty maps is based on the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) of 2005 and the Population Census of 2001. The updating exercise was financially supported by the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID).

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Addressing urban poverty: increasing incomes, reducing costs, and securing representation

Diana Mitlin
Development in Practice, Volume 10, Number 2, May 2000

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The paper considers the effectiveness of different strategies used in urban areas by development agencies to reduce poverty, including the relative merits of income generation and housing and neighbourhood improvement. Drawing on the ndings of recent case studies, it suggests that the advantages of housing and

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Determinants of Transient and Chronic Poverty: Evidence from Rural China

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion
Development Research Group, World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington DC, 20433.

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Are the determinants of chronic and transient poverty different? Do policies that reduce transient
poverty also reduce chronic poverty? We decompose measured household poverty into chronic and
transient components and use censored conditional quantile estimators to investigate the household

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Aid Allocation and Poverty Reduction

Paul Collier and David Dollar
Development Research Group, World Bank, April 11th, 1999

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This paper derives a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compares it wit actual aid allocations. We build the poverty-efficient allocation in two stages. We first utilize new World Bank ratings of twenty different aspects of national policy to establish the current relationship between aid, policies and growth. Onto this we

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