@article{737050da8d564cf88b90ca4046676b5b,
title = "Climbing up the Ladder and Watching Out for the Fall: Poverty Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh",
abstract = "This paper analyses poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh using a nationally representative panel dataset of 5,020 rural households interviewed in 2011/12, 2015, and 2019. Findings show that education, savings, assets, international remittance, non-farm employment, substantial safety net transfers, and women{\textquoteright}s empowerment are key factors in breaking chronic and transient poverty. Rural infrastructure development and market access through improved connectivity are also critical for sustained poverty alleviation. On the other hand, woman-headed households (widowed, divorced or abandoned) are found to be particularly vulnerable to impoverishments. The results are consistent across multinomial logit, simultaneous quantile regression, and panel fixed effects models. Thus, policies and programs that address the determinants of chronic and transient poverty identified in this study hold promise for sustained poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh.",
keywords = "Bangladesh, Non-farm employment, Panel data, Poverty dynamics, Rural poverty, Social safety net, Women{\textquoteright}s empowerment",
author = "Akhter Ahmed and Salauddin Tauseef",
note = "Funding Information: This work was undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Funding for this research was provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSSP) in Bangladesh through USAID Grant Number: EEM-G-00-04-00013-00. We thank Bob Baulch and Agnes Quisumbing at IFPRI for their valuable comments on this study, Julie Ghostlaw for her editorial services, and the survey enumerators and other staff of Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA) for careful data collection. Tauseef also acknowledges financial support from the University of Manchester. All errors and interpretations are our sole responsibility. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1007/s11205-021-02808-2",
language = "English",
journal = "Social Indicators Research",
issn = "0303-8300",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
}