This document discusses poverty in Bangladesh. It defines different types of poverty and identifies the main causes as illiteracy, malnutrition, lack of shelter, clothing, health services, and more. These issues are interconnected and reinforce one another in a "vicious circle of poverty." The document also provides statistics on literacy rates in Bangladesh and compares poverty rates over recent decades, showing a reduction. It outlines several steps that could be taken to further alleviate poverty, such as improving education, creating jobs, developing agriculture, and encouraging non-governmental organizations. Challenges to reducing poverty include lack of funds, planning, infrastructure, and political stability. Overall, the document analyzes the nature and causes of poverty in Bangladesh as well as potential solutions

3. Contents
1. What Is Poverty?
2. General Overview of the Bangladesh
Economic
3. Rural and Urban Poverty
4. Causes of Rural and Urban Poverty
5. Steps for Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

4. Poverty is the deprivation of food, shelter,
money and clothing when people can’t satisfy
their basic needs. Poverty can be understood
simply as a lack of money or more broadly in
terms of barriers to everyday human life.

5. TYPES OF POVERTY
(1) Absolute Poverty : (Destitution) It refers to the
state of severe deprivation of basic human
needs.
(2) Relative Poverty : It is defined contextually as
Economic inequality in location or society in
which people live.

6. Vicious circle of poverty there are five main causes.such as..

8. Illiteracy
• Poor people can not
afford to send their
children to school
• Thus a bigger part of
society remains
illiterate.
Malnutrition
• Poverty affected people
are unable to buy
nutritious food.
• Sometime they can not
manage three meals a day
and that’s why they suffer
from malnutrition.
Shelter
Problem
• Poverty affected people do
not have proper living
place.
• Sometime poverty compel
them to sleep under open
sky.

9. Lack of
Clothing
• Poor people can not manage
proper clothing for them.
• They wear rag dress. During
winter many poor people
suffer from cold, even some of
them die for want of warm
cloth.
Lack of
Health
Service
• Because of poverty many
people do not get proper
medical treatment.
• They suffer a lot from various
diseases even die without any
treatment.
.
Increasing
Crime
• When people are unable to
fulfill their basic needs they
are compelled to involve in
various crime

10. Increasing
Child Labor
• : Because of poverty many
parents send their children
to do different types of work
at an early age instead of
sending them to school.
• Thus child labor is
increasing day by day.
Slowdown
Development
• As poverty affected people
can not contribute to
national income thus they
slowdown development
process of our country.
Social
Discrimination
• Poverty creates
discrimination between
rich and poor.

11. LITERACY RATES IN BANGLADESH
In 2005, the national literacy rate in Bangladesh was 51.9 percent; in rural
areas, 46.7 percent of the population is literate and in urban areas 67.9
percent.

12. Although poverty alleviation process in Bangladesh is very slow but the
happy news is that Bangladesh is progressing. We can easily understand progress of
poverty alleviation process of Bangladesh by comparing the previous two decade’s
poverty rate that are given below.

13. 1.Education
•Education is compared to light and poverty is compared to darkness.
Poverty can not affect us if we are educated. Educated nation is never
underdeveloped.
•So education is a must for us if we want to get rid of the curse of poverty.
2. Employment
Opportunity
•Unemployment is one of the most important causes of poverty in our country.
•In order to eradicate poverty, employment opportunity must be enhanced in
government sector as well as in private sector.
3. Population
Check
•: We know that Bangladesh is an over populated country. It is very difficult for
the government to ensure proper facilities to the excess population and
that’s we can not lead a standard life style.
•So we should convince people to accept family planning in order to control
birth rate to check population.

14. 4. Proper
Utilization of
Natural Resources
•Almighty Allah has blessed our country with huge amount of natural
resources. Our prosperity depends on proper utilization of those natural
resources.
•So we should make the best use of our natural resources to erase
poverty from our fate.
5. Train up
Manpower
•We regretfully say that our country is over populated! But population of
a country can never be a problem.
•If we can train them up properly they will surely turn into asset and will
play a vital role in eradicating poverty from society.
7. Promotion of
Gender Equality
•Women fall into poverty more easily and more frequently than men.
They constitute majority of the people living in poverty.

15. 8. Self-
employment
•self-employment played a central role in poverty eradication. Access of the
poor to land, capital and other productive resources must be improved.
9. Reduction of
Hunger and
Malnutrition
•Hunger and malnutrition were the worst manifestations of poverty. The
chronically hungry cannot grow out of poverty.
10. Social
Service
•Social services must be developed with more social investments by
governments and less military expenditures, if poverty is to be defeated.
11.Jakat 12. Micro-credit Program 13. Allowance Scheme
14. Helping Peasantry 15. Good Governance and Effective
Administration

16.  By achieving universal primary
education.
 By promoting gender equality and
empowering women.
 By removing unemployment problem.
 By improving maternal health.
 By eliminating corruption.
 By developing a global partnership.
 By ensuring increased local govt.
participation to evaluate & eradicate
poverty.
By exporting manpower.

17. Poverty Reduction
Vison for the poverty reduction strategy
Key issues in building
strategies
4
supporting
Strategies
Block 1:
Enhanching
Pro-poor growth
Block 2:
Bosting critical
sectors for pro-
Poor economic
growth
Block 3:
Devising
Effective
Safety Nets &
Targeted
programs
Block 4:
Ensuring
Social
Development
Ensuring participation ,social inclusion and empwerment
Promoting good govermance
Providing service delivery
Caring for Environment and sustainable Development
Consultation at various levels
Monitring
and
evaluatio
n of PRS
Impleme
ntation
Medium-
term
Macroec
onomic
framewor
k
4 strategic
Blocks

18. 1. Emphasize
on Education
2. Job
Creation
3.
Immigration
Scheme
4.Training
5.
Development
in Agriculture
6. Birth Rate
Control
7. Old-age
Allowance
Scheme
8. Food-for-
Work
Program
9. Encourage
NGO

19. 1. Shortage
of fund
2. Lake of
proper
planning.
3. Slow
economic
growth
4. Corruption
in every sector
5. Lack of
Proper
monitoring
6. Lack of
sufficient
infrastructure
7. Slow
industrial
development
8. Political
instability
11. Lake of
technology

20. Rank
(Subcontine
nt)
Rank
(Asia)
Rank World Country 2011
GDP(PPP)
Billions of
USD
1 2 3 India $4,469.763
2 11 27 Pakistan $489.436
3 17 42 Bangladesh $282.945
4 25 65 Sri-Lanka $115.220
5 34 96 Nepal $37.799
6 38 106 Afghanistan $30.012
7 46 155 Bhutan $4.285
8 49 164 Maldives $2.735

21. Country Population
Human
Developm
ent
index
Literacy
Rate
Corruptio
n
perception
index
Unemplo
yment
Rate
GDP
Per
Capita
(US)
Bangladesh 161,083,804 0.524 43.1% 2.1 5.00% $1,700
Malaysia 29,179,952 0.823 88.7% 5.1 3.10% $15800
Bhutan 716,896 0.613 47% 5.2 4.00% $6,200
Maldives 394,451 0.749 96.3% 2.8 14.50% $8,800
India 1,205,073,612 0.609 61% 3.4 9.80% $3,700
Pakistan 190,291,129 0.562 49.9% 2.5 5.60% $2,800

22. Map of world poverty by country, showing percentage of population living on less than
$1.25 per day. Information is based on different years (2000-2006) for different
countries. Data is missing for countries coloured grey.

23. Poverty population grows over the years.

24.  Poverty can be reduce if jobs creation for the poor
family so they can earn a living and provide more
opportunity for more children to be educated.
 Therefore, social entrepreneur are helping out,
trying to prevent poverty from increasing.