Extreme Poverty, Growth and Inequality in Bangladesh

Devine, Joe; Wood, Geof; Ali, Zulfıqar; Alam, Shamsul

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“…In 2015, Bangladesh achieved the status of lower middle‐income country (World Bank, 2022) as classified by the World Bank—currently defined as having a GNI per capita of between USD 1046–4095 (World Bank, n.d.). The country's per capita income is now USD 2824 a year (Bangladesh's per capita income rises to $2,824, 2022), but so far, economic growth has failed to guarantee social policies that improve the welfare of the poorest (Hall et al, 2004; and for Bangladesh, see Devine et al, 2017). Consequently, people in Bangladeshi society mostly age within evolving systems of exchange organized through the family (functional or otherwise).…”

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Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh

Akram

Maîtrot

2023

Development Policy Review

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Motivation: Many mainstream welfare theories developed by social scientists and applied by economists and policy-makers underestimate families' roles in providing welfare to citizens. This is surprising given that the family constitutes one of the main welfare pillars across typologies of the welfare state.Purpose: This article seeks to explore the role of the family as a welfare pillar with an ageing perspective. We aimed to test whether the family serves as a space for negotiations to improve wellbeing and achieve security in the absence of effective formal mechanisms Methods and approach: Applying the framework of "informal security regimes," this article draws on 37 life-history interviews collected from older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh. Recurring themes are identified and analysed to explore the relationship between family and wellbeing/security. Findings: We find that family relationships are often central in the pursuit of security. This shows how welfare delivery in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), in this case Bangladesh, is deeply rooted in reciprocal family systems where all members actively fulfil moral and material expectations.Pursuing this collective goal can take different forms relative to each member's physical and mental capacity, position, gender, and age. Building on the empirical evidence,

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Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh

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2023

Development Policy Review

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Introduction – Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change: Policy Responses in Asia

Mok¹,

Kühner²,

Yeates³

2017

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The question whether Asian welfare types can be classified as distinctly 'productivist' has remained subject to lively debates: in East Asia, the recent implementation of social rights-based public policy innovations -including working family support -as a response to rising inequalities, welfare expectations and accelerating social change has been well documented; similarly, South East Asian and South Asian economies have featured much more frequently in comparative social policy analysis as policymakers have sought to address persisting chronic poverty, a diminishing demographic dividend and burdensome epidemiological transitions via integrating human capital formation with social protection measures. Yet, far from a unifying convergence of these social policy trends in the post-Millennium Development Goals era, the global perspective we take in this article suggests continued variation and difference, with a multiplicity of forms of globalizations encountered and/or engendered in diverse contexts. As a consequence, variegated and path-dependent patterns of social development continue to persist across Asian economies. These findings, in turn, address major issues of our time, for they speak to the broader question of what analytical bases and research strategies can best reveal the complexities of (and interactions between) national, extra-national and transnational drivers of welfare formation and development under contemporary but diverse conditions.

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CHAPTER 10 Conclusion: sharing the well

Ali¹,

Wood²

2017

Extreme Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in Bangladesh

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Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh

Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh

Introduction – Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change: Policy Responses in Asia

CHAPTER 10 Conclusion: sharing the well

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