Dimensions of Poverty among the Lower Income People in Dhaka City

Abstract

Poverty has become a part of human history, but its meaning has changed through time. Most people in traditional societies were poor, and this was accepted as natural and unavoidable, and that is should be possible to find ways to eradicate it. It can be said that poverty is multidimensional and complex issue but the dynamics of poverty are indeed very much complex, involving many inter-related and often interaction variables, the relative importance of which varies from place to place are any given time. In this study, poverty is defined as the condition of lack of education, inequality in land ownership, landlessness, inequality in income distribution, lack of income opportunities and poor government policies. In Bangladesh, thousands of NGOs are working with micro financing and most of them are based on rural area. The urban poverty is only focused on media to just only focus not take steps to reduce or any preventional steps. Both the limited and lower-income earning people of the cities like Dhaka are facing the atrocious scenario of poverty. So its time to establish a proper education system, taking suggestion form the experts, working against beauracracy, corruption, and ensuring political stability for a poverty free Bangladesh.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jsf.v10i1.16276

J Sci Foundation, January-June 2012;10(1):29-37