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Targeted distribution

author(s) Ahmed, A
from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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  • Asia
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Ahmed, A, 'Targeted distribution', In Out of the shadow of famine: evolving food markets and food policy in Bangladesh. Ahmed, Raisuddin; Haggblade, Steven; Chowdhury, Tawfiq-e-Elahi (Eds.). Chapter 11. Pp. 213-231., Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2000

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Abstract

Despite recent economic growth, pervasive poverty and undemutrition persist in Bangladesh. According to the latest estimates, about half the population cannot afford an adequate diet (WGTFI 1994; Sen 1992; Ravallion and Sen 1996). Although long-term trends in the overall incidence of poverty show modest signs of improvement, the standard of living for those in extreme poverty has stagnated (Rahman 1994; Sen 1992). One-quarter of the population maintains a precarious existence. Chronically underfed and highly vulnerable, these people remain largely without assets (other than their own labor power) to cushion lean-season hunger or the crushing blows of illness, flooding, and other calamities. As a result, two-thirds of deaths among children under five years old are related to malnutrition (Hassan and Ahmed 1990).

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