Making Work Pay in Bangladesh : Employment, Growth, and Poverty Reduction

Paci, Pierella ; Sasin, Marcin

Washington, DC : World Bank

关键词: ACCESS TO EDUCATION;    ACCOUNTING;    AGE CATEGORY;    AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT;    AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION;   

DOI  :  10.1596/978-0-8213-7532-7
RP-ID  :  44646

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The objective of this report is toanalyze the important roles of labor markets, employment,productivity, and labor income in facilitating shared growthand promoting poverty reduction in Bangladesh. First, thereport provides a background discussion of poverty, reform,and growth in Bangladesh. Following that, it gives anoverview of the labor market, describing the country'sdemographics, the institutional structure of the labormarket, and the labor market indicators. Then a povertyprofile of the labor market is developed, followed by adiscussion of the income sources and a decomposition ofpoverty reduction. A number of selected issues are discussedin the final section, including rural versus urbanconditions; women, and children in the labor market;self-employment and household employment; and socioeconomic inequalities.