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

Paci, Pierella; Sasin, Marcin

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

2008

Paci, Pierella | Sasin, Marcin

The objective of this report is to analyze the important roles of labor markets, employment, productivity, and labor income in facilitating shared growth and promoting poverty reduction in Bangladesh. First, the report provides a background discussion of poverty, reform, and growth in Bangladesh. Following that, it gives an overview of the labor market, describing the country's demographics, the institutional structure of the labor market, and the labor market indicators. Then a poverty profile of the labor market is developed, followed by a discussion of the income sources and a decomposition of poverty reduction. A number of selected issues are discussed in the final section, including rural versus urban conditions; women, and children in the labor market; self-employment and household employment; and socioeconomic inequalities.

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accounting agricultural development agricultural production agricultural sector agricultural workers balance of payments community organizations crop production debt depreciation diversification economic activities economic growth employment exchange rate fertility formal education gross domestic product household budget household income household surveys human capital income distribution industrial production infant inflation informal sector insurance irrigation labour land ownership legal status literacy living standards malnutrition market analysis migration natural resources occupation occupations old age pension population growth poverty reduction primary education private enterprises private investment private sector product markets public investment questionnaires real estate rural areas rural population sanitation savings secondary education social protection social security trade unions unemployment urban population urbanization wage rate war

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Washington, DC : World Bank

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Investment climate; Inflow of remittances; Poverty lines; Earning; Employment generation; Laborers; Present study; Gender gap; Subsistence farmers; Productivity gains; Labor market indicators; Earnings; Buyers; Business community; Life expectancy; Inequality; Age category; Labor costs; Salaried workers; Landless workers; Minimum wage; Firing restrictions; Daily wage; Commodity; Economic transition; Job losses; Child mortality; Poverty rate; Female education; Private sector wage; Private sector investment; System of preferences; Progress; Income levels; Productivity components; Level of education; Social programs; State-owned enterprises; Consumer price index; Labor market; Currency; New jobs; Labor market characteristics; Total factor productivity; Low-income; Working age population; Labor productivity; Education for girls; Infant mortality; Employment rate; Rural; Labor force; Poverty profile; Estimates of poverty; Poor households; Term contract; Average earnings; Economic activity; Other assets; Labor statistics; Household enterprise; Poverty analysis; Self-employment; Wage sector; Investment climate assessment; Firing costs; Open unemployment; Poor people; Productivity increase; Rents; Access to education; Union activity; Working-age population; Poverty measures; Salaried employment; Competitive pressure; Drivers; Poverty reduction efforts; Salaried worker; Poverty incidence; Labor market regulations; Unemployment rate; Working age; Work income; Poor; Human development; Dissemination; Saving behavior; Living standard; Termination; Productivity growth; Income growth; Consumer; Labor cost; Household enterprises; Job creation; Wage employment; Current account; Children per woman; Poverty rates; Worker; Poverty assessment; Annual income; Salary; Productive employment; Productivity component; Wage growth; Poverty line; Employment growth; Union activities; Child workers; Income increases; Employment rates; Live births; Employment opportunities; Rapid growth; Incomes; Skill groups; Research assistance; Total employment; Employment status; Investment climate assessments; Social assistance; Export processing zone; Direct investment; Average wage; Fertility rates; Labor market segmentation; Socioeconomic inequalities; Family members; Total productivity growth; Development bank; Productivity improvement; Capital goods; Jobs; Labor relations; Private employment; Public expenditures; Labor force growth; Minimum wages; Low earnings; Contributions; Labor regulations; Labor markets; Foreign direct investment; Term contracts; Income sources; Sources of income; Macroeconomic stabilization; Collective bargaining; Export processing zones; Private transfers; Employment in agriculture; Income shares; Contribution; Rural infrastructure

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Directions in Development; Povertyhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/World BankCreative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0

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8213-7532

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Directions in Development; Poverty

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

2008

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