Bangladesh's second chance

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  Murshed, Yasmeen ^a   Choudhury, Nazim Kamran ^b  

^a Centre for Analysis and Choice   (Bangladesh)

^b Center for Anal and Choice

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EID: 16744368813     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (7)

1. Brenda Trenowden and Dvai Ghoah, Bangladesh: Strength in Adversity (Hong Kong: Peregrine Brokerage, Ltd., 1996)
2. Bangladesh: World Bank Country Report (Dhaka: World Bank, 1994).
3. World Bank, Government That Works: Reforming the Public Sector (Dhaka: World Bank Development and Finance Division, 1996).
4. See Trenowden and Ghoah, Bangladesh: Strength in Adversity.
5. Bangladesh: World Bank Country Report, 1994.
6. The "trickle-down" approach consists of measures designed to accelerate growth through wealth-creating activities and job creation. The idea is that growth creates jobs, jobs provide income, and this in turn stimulates more income-creating activities as workers' disposable earnings are pumped back into the economy. This approach has been criticized on the grounds that it tends to make the rich richer and does not necessarily lead to poverty alleviation on the same scale as measures that are directly targeted to help the poor, such as microcredit or skills-development programs and the like. On the question of development generally, see S. Jahan, Development Challenges in the Nineties: Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh (Dhaka: Bangladesh Institute for International and Strategic Studies, 1991).
7. R. Jahan, Women and Development in Bangladesh: Challenges and Opportunities (Dhaka: Ford Foundation, 1989).