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Proceedings of

International Conference on Advances In Economics, Management and Social Study EMS 2014

"A BRIDGE BETWEEN POVERTY REDUCTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS: PERSPECTIVE BANGLADESH"

RAFEA KHATUN
DOI
10.15224/978-1-63248-007-1-114
Pages
73 - 83
Authors
1
ISBN
978-1-63248-007-1

Abstract: “As a least developed country our county is also not free from the problem of poverty. Above half of our population are still living their life below poverty line. They are sometimes deprived of their basic necessaries of life for which their physical and mental growth can’t be flourished according to their needs. Besides these people can’t effectively participate in development project and they are also becoming victim of discrimination in distribution of that project’s outcome. So that they lag behind in many other sectors also. Recent shocks to the Bangladeshi economy in the form of natural disasters and rising food prices have partially dampened the rapid progress in reducing poverty. The year 2007 saw two natural disasters, floods and a devastating cyclone within a few months of each other. Another significant shock has beenthe steep rise in food prices, including the main staple, rice, which has revealed the risk posed by global price volatility for a net food-importing country li”

Keywords: deficiency, scarcity, shortage, dearth, paveity, nsufficiency, denial one or many things.

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