PROMOTING SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN RURAL AREA THROUGH LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN BANGLADESH: TOWARDS AN ENCOMPASSING APPROACH FOR POVERTY MITIGATION
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Bangladesh is one of the developing countries having a huge number of populations living below the poverty line. Bangladesh has long been struggling to reduce the incidence of poverty and to improve the living standards of its millions of impoverished citizens. Although in the last decades, Bangladesh achieved a remarkable progress in reducing poverty with numerous internal and external constraints. Bangladesh is still in the quagmire of poverty. Centralized and pervasive poor standard of governance and top-down inconsistent policy implementation is considered as the main obstacle in dwindling poverty and developing socio-economic scenario. Due to weak and ineffective governance system, lack of coordination, absence of rule of law, non-participatory, non-transparent and non-accountable decision making process, government-run self-employment programs and donors supported initiatives failed to achieve optimum result. Moreover, such bad governance has adverse impact on local government. Although, Union Parishad (UP), the most grass-root local government institute in Bangladesh, has vast scope to deal directly with the poverty reduction strategies of the government but the potentialities of this local government body remained unutilized. A survey has been conducted on three Upazila under three districts to find out the problems and weaknesses of selfemployment programs, and the role of UP thereto. Based on the overall study findings, a conceptual model has been drawn focusing on present self-employment program implementation system and governance and local governance drawbacks of this system. The model has also suggested a way to overcome these problems by inputting the essences and practices of effective model of local governance system. This study has tried to prove the effectiveness of this model, identifying relevant learning points from the experiences of the research and relevant literature review for promoting selfemployment in rural area through local government in Bangladesh to accelerate poverty reduction for the local poor.
Authors and Affiliations
Mohammad Saidul Islam| (Corresponding Author) Senior Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh e-mail: saidul5277@gmail.com, Syed Mohammad Aminur Rahman| Additional District Magistrate, Sylhet, Bangladesh, Shohid Mohammad Saidul Huq| Additional Deputy Commissioner (Education and ICT), Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Sylhet, Bangladesh
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