Hands not land: how livelihoods are changing in rural Bangladesh

This book provides some ideas for development practitioners on how to approach the challenge of the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh. Its origins lie in a study of rural livelihoods commissioned in 2000-2001 by DFID UK

This book is an overview of research papers that examine the life and livelihoods of people living in rural Bangladesh. It draws together the following papers:

• Rural development trends: what the statistics say, by Bimal Kumar Saha
• Agricultural and non-agricultural livelihoods in rural Bangladesh: a relationship in flux, by Kazi Ali Toufique
• Frontiers of change in rural Bangladesh: natural resources and sustainable livelihoods, by Mohammed Asaduzzaman
• Rural development policy in Bangladesh, by Sattar Mandal
• Rural poverty: patterns, processes and policies, by Rushidan Islam Rahman
• Migration and rural livelihoods, by Rita Afsar
• The informal institutional framework in rural Bangladesh, by S.Aminul Islam
• The formal institutional framework of rural livelihoods in Bangladesh, by Paul Thornton
• Re-thinking local governance: towards a livelihoods focus, by Hossain Zillur Rahman
• Gender dimensions of rural change, by Santi Rozario
• The causes of vulnerability in rural livelihoods, by S.Aminul Islam