
Women are both the target and the “agency” for the microfinance interventions; yet, curiously, most research on microfinance focuses on the household-level impact, and not on the well-being of the women themselves within the household. This book is an important contribution to fill this gap. Rich in both analytical rigour and the quality of empirical evidence, the book ingeniously applies
কৃষি অর্থনীতি অনেকগুলো পৃথক জ্ঞানের একটি সমন্বিত শাখা। কৃষির উৎপাদন, বিপণন, প্রতিষ্ঠান ও আধুনিকায়নের বিভিন্ন অর্থনৈতিক দিকে নিয়ে তাত্ত্বিক ও তথ্যভিত্তিক আলোচনা নিয়ে বাংলাভাষায় উল্লেখযোগ্য খুব বেশি প্রকাশনা নেই। অথচ বিশ্বব্যাপী জাতীয় বিকাশের স্বার্থে কৃষি অর্থনীতি বিষয়টিকে অত্যন্ত গুরুত্ব দিয়ে পাঠ করা হয়।
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There has been a remarkable transformation of the rural economy in Bangladesh during the last decades leading to significant reductions in poverty. National statistics and other reports have documented the progress in agriculture, infrastructure, health, education and the improved condition for women in rural Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has recently turned out to be an intriguing model of economics. It warrants faster growth to help the economy achieve the next level of development. The book argues how macro policymaking and institutions can empower growth to make this graduation possible. This work shows how the market economy along with the spirit of liberalization has energized Bangladesh to be a growth story and how further reforms and apt investment strategies can make the country’s development sustainable in the twenty-first century.
This book comprises a selection of studies from the research team of the Extreme Poverty programme (EEP-Shiree), sponsored by GOB-DFID during 2008-16. Its core premise is that extreme poverty is significantly different as a socio-economic, political and cultural experience from being moderately poor in the society.