Social Development in Bangladesh: Pathways, Surprises and Challenges

Mahmud, Wahiduddin

doi:10.1177/0973703020080104

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“…An effective human development strategy combining health, education and training will be key to the economy's competitiveness as it tries to break into middleincome country status. Therefore, our study supports Mahmud (2008), which calls for greater allocation of public funds to social causes, continuous public awareness campaigns and improved governance in public service delivery systems.…”

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“…The trends in the government's budgetary allocations show that the shares of expenditure on both health and education out of the total budget expenditure have increased steadily from the early 1980s to the late 1990s (Mahmud, 2008). However, as a percentage of GDP, spending on education and health still remains rather low when compared to other developing countries.…”

Section: Does Public Expenditure Matter?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rather, the progress may be attributed to using low-cost solutions to providing public goods. In the case of Bangladesh, Mahmud (2008) argued that the public provision of health and education has been engineered by NGOs, combining low-cost solutions with public awareness campaigns.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Paths to Development: Is there a Bangladesh Surprise?

2013

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Is Bangladesh's development progress surprising, given its level of economic development? Using aggregate indices of education, health, demographic and gender equality outcomes, we empirically investigate the hypothesis that Bangladesh made exceptional gains in human development compared with countries with similar level of per capita income. Stylised facts and cross-country regression results indicate that, for a broad range of dimensions, there is a human development surplus. Further tests show that such surplus does not reflect the role of economic growth and public expenditure programmes. We conclude by speculating on the role of Bangladesh's human development to sustain the process of growth and on the implications of governance and institutional quality for the nexus between growth and human development.

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Paths to Development: Is there a Bangladesh Surprise?

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“…Some authors have speculated that the answer to this question could be affirmative (Mahmud, 2008;Devarajan, 2008). The Bangladeshi economy has recorded a remarkable economic performance in the new millennium, but its per capita income remains low (World Bank, 2012a).…”

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Paths to Development: Is there a Bangladesh Surprise?

Asadullah

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2014

World Development

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“…Although good governance facilitates economic growth, the case of Bangladesh, despite the non-existence of the majority of the elements of good governance, the country has shown remarkable economic and social development that can be a model of development for other developing countries. This has been achieved despite many growth retarding factors such as lack of resources and land scarcity, natural disasters, widespread corruption, and governance failure (Asadullah et al, 2014, Mahmud, 2008, Mahmud et al 2008. Scholars, particularly economists from the World Bank have termed this "Paradox" or "Development Surprise."…”

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Three essays on public management capacity building in Bangladesh

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This thesis consists of three self-contained essays on public management capacity building in Bangladesh. In recent years, public management capacity building has been widely discussed and recognized as a necessity for sustainable development in the developing countries. It has taken on added importance by both international development partners and developing countries as a vital tool for growth and development. The lack of good governance in many developing countries has corrosive effects on the development process such as entrench corruption, lack of rule of law, lack of transparency etc. In this aspect, improving the governance environment, more particularly public management capacity building is necessary. Public management capacity building is enhancement of competency of public sector organizations. In developing country, public management capacity building means enabling government's ability to deliver vital services. The public management capacity in Bangladesh has been under scrutiny for many years. The colonial legacy, politicization of bureaucracy, military intervention, and many other factors have had a worsening effect on overall public management systems in Bangladesh, which is perceived by its citizens as inefficient and ineffective, centralized, and unaccountable, corrupt and not transparent. Despite a number of reform efforts, traditional bureaucratic cultures are still in place. Moreover, globalization has placed immense challenges on this system. With the rapid flourishing of the private sector, there has been a widening gap between public

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Social Development in Bangladesh: Pathways, Surprises and Challenges

Cited by 33 publications

References 8 publications

Paths to Development: Is there a Bangladesh Surprise?

Paths to Development: Is there a Bangladesh Surprise?

Paths to Development: Is there a Bangladesh Surprise?

Three essays on public management capacity building in Bangladesh

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