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• IMPACTS OF INTERNAL MIGRATION ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN BANGLADESH

  Md Nazirul Islam Sarker (School of Political Science and Public Administration, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang, CHINA),
  Bo Yang (School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, CHINA, and Sichuan Radio and TV University, Chengdu, CHINA),
  Wang Tingzhi (Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, CHINA),
  Aditi Chakrovorty (The East Asia Study Center, University of Dhaka, BANGLADESH),
  Md Abdus Salam (Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, BANGLADESH, and Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, JAPAN),
  Nazmul Huda (Department of Humanities, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, BANGLADESH and Department of Safety System & Construction Engineering, Kagawa University, JAPAN).
  

  Disciplinary: Multidisciplinary (Economics, Migration and Mobility Studies, Development Studies, Sociology).

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  DOI: 10.14456/ITJEMAST.2020.210

  Keywords: Rural-urban migration; Rural-city migration; Political economy; Poverty reduction; Migration factors; Migration reasons; Migration flow; Public policy; Famine-drive migration; Migration rate; Poverty-forced migration; Migration for sustainable development.

  Abstract
  Migration is an indispensable part of an economy. The purpose of this article was to explore the linkage between poverty and migration through evidence. The study was based on a quantitative approach and used a demographic household survey (1991 to 2011) data accompanied by a theoretical discussion. The theoretical evidence showed that the relationship between poverty and migration was not simple rather than vice-versa. The relationship showed three ways such as migration as a factor of poverty, poverty as a major reason for migration as well as migration as an outcome of poverty. Empirical evidence showed that migration had a great impact on the reduction of poverty at not only the individual level but also the household level, community level as well as national level. It also revealed that internal migration depended on the socio-economic, cultural, and demographic factors in Bangladesh such as low income, unemployment, social inequality, higher and quality education, unsatisfactory life leading, and natural disasters like flood, drought, and riverbank erosion. A target-oriented pro-poor policy is required to enhance the off-farm job opportunity, basic public and social services, and disaster management so that people can stay in rural areas with a sustainable livelihood.
  

  Paper ID: 11A11F

  Cite this article:

  Sarker, M.N.I., Yang, B., Tingzhi, W., Chakrovorty, A., Salam, M.A., Huda, N. (2020). IMPACTS OF INTERNAL MIGRATION ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN BANGLADESH. International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11(11), 11A11F, 1-15.