What We Visualize.

Low per capita income

Worlds most densely populated country
Huge portion of population swept by devastating flood in each year
Weak Private Sector
Widely perceived as having corrupt and dysfunctional government

But surprisingly.
Bangladesh is better performer than most countries at improving the

basic standard of living of its people

Bangladeshis can expect to live four years longer than Indians even

though they are much poorer

Bangladesh has achieved some of the largest reductions in early deaths of

infants, children and women in childbirth ever seen anywhere.

So that is the puzzle.

Bangladesh combines economic disappointment with social
progress

As per The Economist

Improving the status of women

Boosting incomes in the country

Four
Factors
Maintaining basic social spending

Public spending by non-government organizations

Improving the Status of Women

Big familyplanning
programme

Reduced fertility but raised the status of women in the

family as they started to control the size of the family

Boom in the
textile sector

Leading to the financial independence of the

women as 80% of the workers were women

Boosting Incomes in the Country

Green Revolution

Remittance

Country could grow two crops a year

Around 6 million Bangladeshis work abroad,

mostly in the Gulf

Maintaining Basic Social Spending

Education

Mandatory primary education

Reduction of dropout
Stipend schemes for girls in rural areas

Poverty
Alleviation

Social Safety Net programme

Ashrayan-2
Ekti Bari, Ekti Khamar

Health

Reduction of child and infant mortality rate

Control of diarrhea
Supplementation of Vitamin-A

Public Spending by NGOs

Microcredit

Reached to 43% of all Bangladeshi households and

about 70% of poor households

Education

About 1.5 million children, approximately 8% of the

primary enrollment, are in schools run by NGOs

Sanitation

Cure rate averaged 85%in the tuberculosis program

and malnutrition rated dropped by about 20% among
the poor

Way Forward
Greater social achievements of Bangladesh than the economic ones doesnt

mean economic growth is pointless

Though Bangladesh shows that its not needed to wait for lots of growth, it

might have done even better had its economy grown faster
Bangladesh falls behind by most of the standards, but these positive

phenomenon has started to draw attention of the outsiders and its high time to
say Bangladesh.Out of the Basket

Thank You!