Climbing up the ladder and watching out for the fall: Poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, the pace of economic growth accelerated in recent years, with real GDP growing at a rate of 6.5 percent on average per year between 2010 and 2016, reaching 7.3 percent in 2017—the highest in the country’s history. The incidence of poverty in Bangladesh was cut in half in the past 16 y...

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