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Low per capita income

Worlds most densely populated country

Huge portion of population swept by devastating flood in each

Weak Private Sector

Widely perceived as having corrupt and dysfunctional governm

What We Visualize.

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Bangladesh is better performer than most countries at improvi

basic standard of living of its people

Bangladeshis can expect to live four years longer than Indians e

though they are much poorer

Bangladesh has achieved some of the largest reductions in early

infants, children and women in childbirth ever seen anywhere.

But surprisingly.

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So that is the puzzle.

Bangladesh combines economic disappointment with soc

progress

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As per The Economist

Four

Factors

Improving the status of women

Boosting incomes in the country

Maintaining basic social spending

Public spending by non-government organiza

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Improving the Status of Women

Big family-planning

programme

Reduced fertility but raised the status of wfamily as they started to control the size o

Boom in thetextile sector

Leading to the financial independence owomen as 80% of the workers were wom

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Boosting Incomes in the Country

Green Revolution Country could grow two crops a year

Remittance Around 6 million Bangladeshis work ab

mostly in the Gulf

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Maintaining Basic Social Spending

Education

Mandatory primary education

Reduction of dropout

Stipend schemes for girls in rural areas

Poverty

Alleviation

Social Safety Net programme

Ashrayan-2 Ekti Bari, Ekti Khamar

Health Reduction of child and infant mortality ra

Control of diarrhea

Supplementation of Vitamin-A

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Public Spending by NGOs

Microcredit Reached to 43% of all Bangladeshi househo

about 70% of poor households

Education About 1.5 million children, approximately 8

primary enrollment, are in schools run by N

Sanitation Cure rate averaged 85%in the tuberculosis

and malnutrition rated dropped by about 20the poor

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Greater social achievements of Bangladesh than the economic ones mean economic growth is pointless

Though Bangladesh shows that its not needed to wait for lots of gro

might have done even better had its economy grown faster

Bangladesh falls behind by most of the standards, but these positive

phenomenon has started to draw attention of the outsiders and its

say Bangladesh.Out of the Basket

Way Forward

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Thank You!