World Bank Poverty Alleviation Projects and Income Inequality in Bangladesh and Uganda
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Megan Lonski
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Qasem, Islam
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Webster University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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78
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-87125-8
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M.A.
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Webster University
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2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This research work analyzes two comparative cases of World Bank poverty alleviation development programs in Bangladesh and Uganda. The work investigates the internal and external conditions under which poverty alleviation programs may increase in-country income inequality. It was found that both internal and external conditions may have a causal relationship with increasing income inequality. A comprehensive, holistic development approach, like that applied in the Ugandan case study, resulted in more stable levels of income inequality. Narrow economic reform programs, like that utilized in Bangladesh, drove income inequality by privileging social and political elites while disenfranchising the poor.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
International law
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Social sciences;Bangladesh;Income inequality;Poverty alleviation;Uganda;World Bank