Climbing up the Ladder and Watching Out for the Fall: Poverty Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh

Ahmed, Akhter U.; Tauseef, Salauddin

doi:10.1007/s11205-021-02808-2

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“…The changes in nutrition and health outcomes are congruent with rapid economic growth and poverty reduction in Bangladesh over the past two decades [48]. As observed in other similar developing LMICs [49], Bangladesh has been experiencing transitions in the food supply, household food expenditures, diets, and nutrition outcomes.…”

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Underweight, overweight or obesity, diabetes, and hypertension in Bangladesh, 2004 to 2018

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Background and objectives Bangladesh is experiencing a nutrition transition with an increase in the double burden of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This study sought to: 1) examine trends and differences in underweight, overweight/obesity, hypertension and diabetes by gender, area of residence, and wealth in Bangladesh from 2004 to 2018, 2) assess what factors contributed to changes in these outcomes. Methods We used data from five rounds of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys (n = 76,758 women 15-49y and 10,900 men 18-95y in total). We calculated differences, slope index of inequality (SII) and concentration index (CIX) to examine trends over time and differences in outcomes by wealth and residence. We identified determinants and estimated drivers of changes in outcomes using regression-based decomposition. Results Between 2004 and 2018, underweight prevalence decreased in both women (33% to 12%) and men (26% to 18%), whereas overweight/obesity increased (17% to 49% in women and 21% to 34% in men). Hypertension also increased in both women (31% to 44%) and men (19% to 33%) while diabetes changed marginally (11% to 14%). In all years, underweight was concentrated in poorer and rural households while overweight/obesity, diabetes and hypertension were concentrated in wealthier and urban households. Wealth inequity decreased over time for underweight, changed little for overweight/obesity, and increased for hypertension and diabetes among men. Increases in wealth explained 35% to 50% of the reduction in underweight and 30% to 57% of the increase in overweight/obesity. Conclusion Our findings imply that double duty actions are required to sustain the decrease in undernutrition and slow the increase in overweight/obesity and NCDs across diverse socioeconomic sections of the population in Bangladesh.

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“…The estimated consumption under five imputation techniques can further be scrutinised by segregating into the poverty indicators. The poverty headcount ratio (FGT0), poverty gap (FGT1) and poverty squared gap (FGT2) are 27.2%, 5.74% and 1.71% for the total consumption data set (Ahmed & Tauseef, 2018). This means that 27.2% of the people in Bangladesh live under the poverty line.…”

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Rapid Consumption Survey Methodology: An Empirical Study in Bangladesh

Mazumder

Rayhan

2022

South Asian Survey

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Every unidimensional poverty measure is mostly based on consumption expenditure. In the household consumption expenditure survey, the questionnaire needs to record detailed information about food and non-food items. The lengthy administering time hampers the survey very often. This study applies a rapid consumption methodology on two-round panel data from the Bangladesh integrated household survey conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute. The surveyed items for each household are partitioned into the core and optional modules. Any randomly taken optional module is assigned to a household, and missing modules are then estimated by the imputation method. In estimating the poverty indicators, the multiple imputation with chained equation model shows better estimates than the ordinary least squares (OLS) and median imputation techniques. The estimated poverty headcount ratio (FGT0) is 26.72%, whereas the full consumption data show FGT0 as 27.2%. These results suggest that the rapid consumption survey methodology in a risk-prone area can be a potential approach to estimate the consumption and poverty at a lower cost and lower administrative time.

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“…1 Since our data are panel in nature, we are concerned about whether the attrition is related to any household characteristics. According to Ahmed and Tauseef (2022), attrition between 2011/12 and 2019 is random. Therefore, the estimates presented in this work are not adjusted for attrition.…”

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“…BIHS used a stratified sampling procedure in two stages. The sample design of the BIHS used stratified sampling in two stages—the selection of primary sampling units (PSUs) and the selection of households within each PSU—following the sampling framework of the 2001 Population and Housing Census of Bangladesh (Ahmed & Tauseef, 2022). The total sample size in the first wave is 6503 households in 318 PSUs allocated among seven divisions, and the total sample sizes in the second and third waves are 5430 and 4891 households, respectively.…”

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Weather shocks, livelihood diversification, and household food security: Empirical evidence from rural Bangladesh

Matsuura

Luh

Islam

2023

Agricultural Economics

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Extreme weather events have occurred more frequently because of global climate change. For farmers, diversification, including crop and income diversification, is one of the most effective strategies to improve rural livelihoods by managing risk and coping with weather shocks. We investigate the empirical linkages among weather shocks, livelihood diversification, and household food security, exploiting three waves of nationally representative rural household panel data merged with granular weather data in Bangladesh. Using instrumental variable methods to control for the possible endogeneity of livelihood diversification decisions, we find that weather shocks are significant drivers of crop and income diversification. Moreover, both crop and income diversification are found to impact per capita food expenditure, while their effects on household dietary diversity are not robust. In particular, the distributional effects of income diversification are uniformly positive and significant for all quantiles of a per capita food expenditure distribution but are more sizable for the richest households. The findings, therefore, highlight the unequal effect of livelihood diversification within the context of rural South Asia, suggesting the need for diversification interventions targeting rural low‐income groups with the goal of improving socioeconomic status, institutional conditions, and infrastructure.

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Climbing up the Ladder and Watching Out for the Fall: Poverty Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

Underweight, overweight or obesity, diabetes, and hypertension in Bangladesh, 2004 to 2018

Underweight, overweight or obesity, diabetes, and hypertension in Bangladesh, 2004 to 2018

Rapid Consumption Survey Methodology: An Empirical Study in Bangladesh

Weather shocks, livelihood diversification, and household food security: Empirical evidence from rural Bangladesh

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