Population Pressure and Livelihood Dynamics: Panel Evidence from Bangladesh

Since the publication of the World Development Report 2008, two related strands of research have emerged-one on the validity of smallholder-led development strategy and the other on agricultural intensification under population pressure. The former casts doubt about the role of agriculture in econom...

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Autores principales: Rashid, Shahidur, Tefera, Nigussie, Lemma, Solomon, Yunus, Mohammad
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149977
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author Rashid, Shahidur
Tefera, Nigussie
Lemma, Solomon
Yunus, Mohammad
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Tefera, Nigussie
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Yunus, Mohammad
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description Since the publication of the World Development Report 2008, two related strands of research have emerged-one on the validity of smallholder-led development strategy and the other on agricultural intensification under population pressure. The former casts doubt about the role of agriculture in economic development in smallholders dominated countries and the later provides evidence that are contrary to earlier findings on induced innovation theory. Using a unique panel dataset, we examine whether these arguments are valid for Bangladesh--a densely populated country that has experienced significant growth in recent decades. The results suggest that (1) agriculture as a source of income declined significantly over the past two decades; (2) the operated farm size stopped declining in the late 1980s; and (3) that population density relates positively with a host of agricultural intensifications indicators with no evidence of threshold.
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spelling CGSpace1499772025-11-06T06:07:35Z Population Pressure and Livelihood Dynamics: Panel Evidence from Bangladesh Rashid, Shahidur Tefera, Nigussie Lemma, Solomon Yunus, Mohammad innovation rural economics agricultural development development theory Since the publication of the World Development Report 2008, two related strands of research have emerged-one on the validity of smallholder-led development strategy and the other on agricultural intensification under population pressure. The former casts doubt about the role of agriculture in economic development in smallholders dominated countries and the later provides evidence that are contrary to earlier findings on induced innovation theory. Using a unique panel dataset, we examine whether these arguments are valid for Bangladesh--a densely populated country that has experienced significant growth in recent decades. The results suggest that (1) agriculture as a source of income declined significantly over the past two decades; (2) the operated farm size stopped declining in the late 1980s; and (3) that population density relates positively with a host of agricultural intensifications indicators with no evidence of threshold. 2014 2024-08-01T02:50:22Z 2024-08-01T02:50:22Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149977 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153437 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153564 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154006 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Rashid, Shahidur; Tefera, Nigussie; Lemma, Solomon and Yunus, Mohammed. 2014. Population Pressure and Livelihood Dynamics: Panel Evidence from Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1326. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149977
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rural economics
agricultural development
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Tefera, Nigussie
Lemma, Solomon
Yunus, Mohammad
Population Pressure and Livelihood Dynamics: Panel Evidence from Bangladesh
title Population Pressure and Livelihood Dynamics: Panel Evidence from Bangladesh
title_full Population Pressure and Livelihood Dynamics: Panel Evidence from Bangladesh
title_fullStr Population Pressure and Livelihood Dynamics: Panel Evidence from Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Population Pressure and Livelihood Dynamics: Panel Evidence from Bangladesh
title_short Population Pressure and Livelihood Dynamics: Panel Evidence from Bangladesh
title_sort population pressure and livelihood dynamics panel evidence from bangladesh
topic innovation
rural economics
agricultural development
development theory
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149977
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