The basic needs approach : its place in planning for core needs in Bangladesh's development strategy
Abstract
This study is concerned with exploring the prospect of adopting the
Basic Needs Approach as a tool of development strategy for Bangladesh.
It is suggested that food, health and education constitute the core of a
basic needs programme. Also, development planning should be reoriented
to meet these core needs as a step to economic development.
As a method of examining the magnitudes of these core needs at the
end of the century, as a guidance to target-setting and planning, the
study uses projections under varying assumptions. In this illustrative
study attempts have been made to bring out the relevant policy directions.
The major conclusion of this study is that the key to successfully
meeting basic needs lie in curbing population growth, and increasing
productivity of food output. Redistributing income in favour of the poor
is obviously required but has not been explicitly examined in the study.
The major policy implication is that detailed policies should be
formulated and rigorously implemented for population control and raising
productivity of the food sub-sector, aiming also at increasing the valueadded
share of the poor.
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