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Rangpur still remains the poorest division, Mymensingh follows: BBS

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Jahidul Islam
25 April, 2023, 10:20 pm
Last modified: 25 April, 2023, 10:37 pm

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The Rangpur division still sees the highest concentration of poor people, which means that infrastructural development has barely made a dent in the poverty rate in the region due to poor industrialisation.

With over 44% of households in the poorest quintile, the historically poverty-prone northern region stands the lowest in wealth among all of the eight divisions, followed by Mymensingh having 39.57% households in the poorest quintile in terms of wealth and socio-economic indicators , reveals a Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) survey.

Rangpur division had the highest over 47% poor population in the 2016 Household Income and Expenditure Survey, followed by Mymensingh with nearly 33%.

The official statistical agency released the "Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2021" report on 17 April which found the highest 20.97% households in the richest quintile in the Dhaka division.

At the national level, a total of 24.18% of households are in the poorest quintile, revealed the report while the number of households in the richest quintile is 13.62%.

Experts and economists said that regions historically known as poor still remain poorer. BBS officials urged government initiative to increase the income of people in lagged-behind areas by creating employment through industrialisation.

Dr Fahmida Khatun, executive director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) told TBS that public initiatives in the name of economic inclusion and infrastructure development in the last decade failed to reduce poverty in the historically poverty-prone areas.

"Transportation infrastructure could help to increase trade and mobility of the people. But production of tradable items should be boosted to increase income and reduce poverty," she said adding, "There is no alternative to creating an environment for industrialisation to reduce poverty.

The economist also said that the average data seems a significant achievement in poverty reduction for the last decade, but the disaggregated data represents how inequality is increasing in several areas.

She said that the incidence of poverty in the Mymensingh region could not have been identified while it was included in the Dhaka division. Becoming a separate division, it appears that Mymensingh has become the second most poverty-stricken region in the country.

Alamgir Hossain, the director of the Sample Vital Registration System project, said that the wealth quintiles are useful to understand relative wealth and equity within a country, they do not give one a sense of absolute wealth.

He said that the BBS introduced the indicator to find how the households in several areas are distributed in the ranking of wealth.

The BBS introduced the Wealth Quintile Index for the first time with its Sample Vital Statistics in the 2021 report, which is considered as one of the key parameters to see the socioeconomic condition of the households, said BBS officials.

They said that quintiles are derived from a series of questions about household construction materials, water and sanitation access, and ownership of various items like television, and refrigerator, to form a wealth index score.

This score is used to rank households by wealth, and the population is then subdivided into five quintiles to produce a relative indicator of socioeconomic status within the country at the time of the survey.

The report found the highest 20.97% households of Dhaka division in the richest quintile, and only 12.30% of households in the poorest quintile, least in all divisions.

The report provided the national level wealth quintile index with a breakdown of rural areas, city corporations, pourashava and division level.

Only 7.17% of the rural household are in the richest quintile, while 29.29% of rural households are in the poorest quintile.

The report also found only 3% of households of city corporations in the poorest quintile and 47.86% of households in the richest portion. The number of richest households in the city areas is the highest and the rate of poorest in these areas are lowest.

The survey was conducted with data collected from more than three lakh households in over 2000 sample survey areas across the country, he noted and added that data collection ended in December 2021.

 
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How Sylhet have so many poor people? Non Sylhetis flooding our Division can be a reason but by that margin? wow...

We are even behind Khulna! Really? Cant believe it man...
 
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How Sylhet have so many poor people? Non Sylhetis flooding our Division can be a reason but by that margin? wow...

We are even behind Khulna! Really? Cant believe it man...
Look at the top of the column. Sylhet division has the 2nd highest percentage of richest people, only slightly lower than Dhaka. No other division comes close to that. Chattogram is distant 3rd.
 
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Look at the top of the column. Sylhet division has the 2nd highest percentage of richest people, only slightly lower than Dhaka. No other division comes close to that. Chattogram is distant 3rd.
We are ranked behind Khulna! wtf...
 
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We are ranked behind Khulna! wtf...
Overall, Sylhet comes 2nd when it comes to per capita income after Dhaka. Chattogram is the 3rd. Both Sylhet and Khulna have 47% population in poorest and poorer categories but when it comes to the richest category, Khulna is only 10 percent while Sylhet is 19 percent. This is almost twice. Bangladesh has low regional economic disparity compared to other regional countries. So, Sylhet having twice the richest persons than Khulna is significant. This is the segment of population where most of the wealth is concentrated.
 
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Overall, Sylhet comes 2nd when it comes to per capita income after Dhaka. Chattogram is the 3rd. Both Sylhet and Khulna have 47% population in poorest and poorer categories but when it comes to the richest category, Khulna is only 10 percent while Sylhet is 19 percent. This is almost twice. Bangladesh has low regional economic disparity compared to other regional countries. So, Sylhet having twice the richest persons than Khulna is significant. This is the segment of population where most of the wealth is concentrated.
How Sylhet got this massive amount of poor people? Immigration from other parts of Bangladesh is a factor but by that much? Sylhet is not the capital of Bangladesh!
 
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How Sylhet got this massive amount of poor people? Immigration from other parts of Bangladesh is a factor but by that much? Sylhet is not the capital of Bangladesh!
People in Haor areas are quite poor. Sunamganj is a poor district. Sunamganj has a lot of haors.
 
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How Sylhet have so many poor people? Non Sylhetis flooding our Division can be a reason but by that margin? wow...

We are even behind Khulna! Really? Cant believe it man...


What do you mean "flooding", it's their country too, do you think people of Sylhet are different to the rest of Bangladesh?
 
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What do you mean "flooding
Literally flooding...
it's their country too,
Yah. Bangladesh is an unitary state that is becoming a problem for our wellbeing. Sylhet doesn’t even get a penny from our own natural resources revenue.
do you think people of Sylhet are different to the rest of Bangladesh?
Yah. Whenever there is a disaster we are remained that we are different from rest of Bangladesh and we have to carry our own *** by ourself.
 
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Literally flooding...

Yah. Bangladesh is an unitary state that is becoming a problem for our wellbeing. Sylhet doesn’t even get a penny from our own natural resources revenue.

Yah. Whenever there is a disaster we are remained that we are different from rest of Bangladesh and we have to carry our own *** by ourself.


Those are your claims though, completely anecdotal in nature or can you or present any evidence to the contrary?
 
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Are you Sheikh Hasina? If not, why should I waste my time and care about your opinion? Bangladesh isn’t a democracy...


Then don't post your "I'm better than the rest of yous" typa tripe on here.


Sylhetis aren't whatever you picture yourselves to be, lie all you want to yourselves about what you are but when you die you go six foot deep like all other Bangladeshis including the "immigrants" who are apparently "flooding" into whatever heaven you guys have got going there.



I will make dua so there is more internal migration to Sylhet. 😇



Bangladesh is for all Bangladeshis, please keep your childish us and them rhetoric to yourself or try and stop people from moving freely within their own country, if you can that is.
 
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Then don't post your "I'm better than the rest of yous" typa tripe on here.


Sylhetis aren't whatever you picture yourselves to be, lie all you want to yourselves about what you are but when you die you go six foot deep like all other Bangladeshis including the "immigrants" who are apparently "flooding" into whatever heaven you guys have got going there.



I will make dua so there is more internal migration to Sylhet. 😇



Bangladesh is for all Bangladeshis, please keep your childish us and them rhetoric to yourself or try and stop people from moving freely within their own country, if you can that is.
We know what we are, we never bothered about anyone else's opinion and our financial and back channel influence is the testament of our capacity.

Sylhet isn’t even an industrialised Division and GoB is yet to build a highway here, entire governance and infrastructure sucks. Still, Sylhet is a heaven because of us Sylhetis.

Encroachment of governments land (Railway, haor, forrest) isnt free movement. How many non Sylhetis can afford to buy privately owned land from us? As a group we maintain highest per cap income and wealth in Bangladesh.

We always gave more than we took if GoB ever bothered to give us anything at all. Since Independence GoB is mining natural resources from Sylhet without even building a Dhaka-Sylhet Highway.

We did better in British era than being a part of Pakistan and currently Bangladesh. And Bangladesh isn’t even a democracy! lol...
 
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We know what we are, we never bothered about anyone else's opinion and our financial and back channel influence is the testament of our capacity.

Sylhet isn’t even an industrialised Division and GoB is yet to build a highway here, entire governance and infrastructure sucks. Still, Sylhet is a heaven because of us Sylhetis.

Encroachment of governments land (Railway, haor, forrest) isnt free movement. How many non Sylhetis can afford to buy privately owned land from us? As a group we maintain highest per cap income and wealth in Bangladesh.

We always gave more than we took if GoB ever bothered to give us anything at all. Since Independence GoB is mining natural resources from Sylhet without even building a Dhaka-Sylhet Highway.

We did better in British era than being a part of Pakistan and currently Bangladesh. And Bangladesh isn’t even a democracy! lol...


Wake up bro, that's just how countries work, should the people of Dhaka complain that their city has been taken over? Or should I as a person from Chittagong riot because my roads are being wrecked (by container trucks) so that the country can afford to put food on the table for ALL the people in Bangladesh (essentially).




Think before you post such stuff, the logic you're using belongs in Pakistan and India, not here, not in Bangladesh, where we're one people, one culture and one way of life.
 
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