Poverty, Intra-Household Distribution and Gender Relations in Bangladesh: Evidence and Policy Implications

By Edited by Mohammad A. Razzaque Bazlul H. Khondker Selim Raihan

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Published by  : University Press Ltd. Dhaka

Pages : 472 pp

Year : 2011

ISBN : 978 984 506 030 1

As a result, poverty measures will be misleading if household resource allocation mechanisms tend to favors some members at the cost of others. This book is an outcome of a research project on Bangladesh that made an attempt to study the dynamics of household resource allocation closely. Based on a carefully designed and implemented household survey, covering both rural and urban areas, empirical assessments undertaken in various chapters of this volume deal with such issues as potential underestimation of poverty incidence due to the household
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