World Bank2013-08-222013-08-222002-12https://hdl.handle.net/10986/15303Bangladesh has made recent progress in reducing poverty, but still faces the reality that roughly half its citizens live in deprivation. This report examines the record of advances during the 1990s, major challenges still to be overcome and priority measures to accelerate poverty reduction. The report suggests that changes in practices an policies, to realize healthy economic growth designed to benefit the rural poor as well as more rapid, sustained movement toward greater social justice. Dramatically lowering the incidence of poverty requires significantly higher levels of economic performance, it also requires that growth reaches the poor and expands their opportunities. Primary education managed to enroll nearly equal proportions of boys and girls and of urban and rural children. Drinking and cooking water now come from tube wells rather than from less sanitary surface water. Prioritizing use of governmental resources, correcting the deterioration that has taken place in government finances in recent years, and imposing strong discipline on the many wasteful state-owned enterprises would help restore fiscal order and macroeconomic stability.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOACCOUNTABILITYAGEDAGRICULTURAL SECTORARSENICBENEFIT INCIDENCEBUDGETARY ALLOCATIONSCDFCHILD LABORCHILD NUTRITIONCHILDBIRTHCITIZENSCOMMERCIAL BANKSCOMMODITIESCOMMON PROPERTYCOMMON PROPERTY RESOURCESDEVELOPMENT GOALSDEVELOPMENT INDICATORSDEVELOPMENT PROGRAMSDEVELOPMENT REPORTSDIRECT IMPACTDISASTERSECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC MANAGEMENTECONOMIC PERFORMANCEECONOMISTSEDUCATIONEMPLOYMENTENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATIONEXPENDITURE SURVEYEXTREME POVERTYFAMILIESFARM ACTIVITIESFARMSFINANCIAL ASSETSFINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSFINANCIAL SECTORFISHERIESFISHINGFULL PARTICIPATIONGIRLSGROWTH INCIDENCEGROWTH RATEGROWTH RATESHEALTH CAREHEALTH CARE SERVICESHEALTH EXPENDITURESHEALTH SERVICESHEALTH SURVEYHEALTH SURVEYSHEALTH WORKERSHOUSEHOLD HEADHOUSEHOLD INCOMEHOUSINGHUMAN CAPITALHUMAN DEVELOPMENTHUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTIMPORTSINCOME COUNTRIESINCOME GENERATIONINCOME LEVELSINEQUALITYINFANT MORTALITYINFANTSINTERNATIONAL COMPARISONSLABOR FORCELABOR FORCE PARTICIPATIONLABOR MARKETLABOR MARKETSLITERACY RATESLIVING STANDARDSMACROECONOMIC INSTABILITYMACROECONOMIC STABILITYMALNUTRITIONMIGRANTSMORBIDITYMORTALITYMOTHERSNON-AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIESNON-FARM EMPLOYMENTNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONSNUTRITIONNUTRITIONPOOR CHILDRENPOOR GAINPOOR HOUSEHOLDSPOPULATION GROWTHPOVERTY ASSESSMENTPOVERTY LINEPOVERTY PROJECTIONSPOVERTY REDUCTIONPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGYPOVERTY ~LINEPRIMARY EDUCATIONPRIMARY SCHOOLPRODUCTIVE ASSETSPRODUCTIVITYPUBLIC EXPENDITUREPUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEWPUBLIC HEALTHPUBLIC RESOURCESREDUCING POVERTYRESEARCH INSTITUTERESOURCE ALLOCATIONSRURAL AREASRURAL ECONOMYRURAL HOUSEHOLDSRURAL POORRURAL POPULATIONRURAL POVERTYSAFETYSAFETY NETSAFETY NETSSAVINGSSCHOOLSSECTORAL COMPOSITIONSOCIAL ASSISTANCESOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMSSOCIAL JUSTICESOCIAL SERVICESSTATE-OWNED ENTERPRISESSTRUCTURAL REFORMSTARGETING PERFORMANCETECHNICAL ASSISTANCEUNEMPLOYMENTURBAN AREASURBAN ONESURBANIZATIONWAGE INCOMEWAGESWORKERS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIESECONOMIC PLANNINGPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIESJOB CREATIONCHILD LABORHEALTH PLANNINGMATERNAL MORTALITYECONOMIC GROWTHRURAL AREASAGRICULTUREHUMAN CAPITALGOVERNMENT SPENDING POLICYGOVERNANCELIVING STANDARDS INDICATORSINCOME INEQUALITIESSCHOOL ENROLLMENTHOUSING CONDITIONSUNEMPLOYMENT RATESWorld Bank10.1596/15303