How Infrastructure and Financial Institutions Affect Rural Income and Poverty : Evidence from Bangladesh

• Tác giả: Shahidur R Khandker
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 332.71 Agricultural credit
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 244386
• Chủ đề: 1. Economic Development: Human Resources; 2. Factor Income Distribution D330; 3. Human Development; 4. Income Distribution; 5. Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320

Tóm tắt

The mechanisms by which the poor benefit from economic growth remain a topic of debate in development literature. We address this issue in the context of rural Bangladesh, using a pooled dataset of three household panels between 1991-2001. Expansion of irrigation, paved roads, electricity, and access to formal and informal credit have (through different veins) led to higher rural farm and non-farm incomes, accounting for exogenous local agroclimatic endowments that explain a large part of the variation in the growth of infrastructure and credit programmes. However, this has not translated into substantial reductions in poverty for the poorest households.