Environmental Concerns for Bangladesh

Title
Environmental Concerns for Bangladesh
Publication Date
2003
Author(s)
Metcalfe, Ian
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/0085640032000178961
UNE publication id
une:1258
Abstract
Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated and poorest countries in the world. Per-capita income is very low, as is life expectancy (Table 1). In terms of poverty, 35.6 percent of the population falls below the national poverty line, of which 29.1 percent is below the international poverty line of US$1 per day — 1993 Purchasing Power Parity. Annual population growth in Bangladesh was about 2.5percent in the 1960s to 1980s but this has slowed to about 1.7 percent in the last decade. Despite an average Gross National Product (GNP) growth in recent decades of 3.9 percent, GNP per-capita growth in Bangladesh remains low — at about 1.4 percent. Bangladesh's Human Development Index (HDI) value is 0.478 and it has an HDI Rank of 145 out of 173 countries. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has stated that Bangladesh’s main problems include civil unrest and political instability, natural disasters, and inadequate infrastructure.
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Citation
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 26(3), p. 423-438
ISSN
1479-0270
0085-6401
Start page
423
End page
438

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