Poverty Reduction Strategy in Bangladesh

Download or read book Poverty Reduction Strategy in Bangladesh written by Palash Kamruzzaman and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, aimed at postgraduate level students, analyzes government relationships with international financial institutions to evaluate the role of citizen participation in formulating national poverty reduction policies. Palash Kamruzzaman first explores the rhetoric of participation in development policies and goes on to examine how such citizen participation efforts were outlined in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper of Bangladesh, where local development brokers play an important economic role. Ultimately, he argues that participatory policies are not enough; we need an entire overhaul of poverty reduction thinking and enough political will—from citizens and politicians alike—to implement it.