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1、RisingConsumptionInequalityinBangladesh*BadalKumarGhosh*TheauthorisanAssociateProfessor,SchoolofBusinessandEconomics,AtishDipankarUniversityofScienceandTechnology,MainCampus.Gulshan,Dhaka,Bangladesh.TheAuthorwantstoexpresshisdeepgratitudeandindebtednesstoDr.HaripadaBh
2、attacharjee,ProfessorandChairman,MarketingDepartment,UniversityofDhaka,forhispricelesssuggestions,commentsandinspirations.AbstractThispaperattemptstoanalyzetheconsumptionpatternofBangladeshafteritsliberation,fromaperiodof1973/74to2005aspertheavailabilityofsecondarydat
3、asources.Italsoattemptstoshowthepatternandtrendofincome,expenditureandconsumptionexpenditurefromthedifferentpointsofviewconsideringdifferentrelevantfactorsorvariables.Sinceindependence,Bangladeshhasachievedsomeprogressinitsgrowthanddevelopmentandatthesametimeithasexpe
4、riencedariseininequalityinincomeandinconsumptionbetweentherichandthepoor.Thepatternofconsumptionespecially,thefoodhasbeenchangedovertheperiodmentionedabove.Moreover,therehasbeenincreaseinfoodandnon-foodconsumptiondisparities1betweenruralandurbanareasandalsoamongthedif
5、ferentsocio-economicgroupsofBangladeshwhichhavealsobeenworkedoutinthisstudy.KeyWords:Consumption,foodconsumption,Non-foodconsumption,Consumptionpattern,Consumptioninequality,Consumptionexpenditure,rural-urbanareas,socio-economicgroup.INTRODUCTION‘Inequality’and‘develo
6、pment’aremuchdebatedtermstoday.Nowwhatisdevelopment”Isitsimplytheincreaseinnationalincomeofacountry?Certainlynot.Inwhateversortofanation-developedordeveloping,developmentshouldbeapositivechangeinthelivingstandardsoftheaverageindividual.Developmentwhichresultsinaccumul
7、ationofwealthinthepocketsofafewrichelitesisnottruedevelopment.Althougheconomicgrowthtodayisnottheonlyimportantindicatorofdevelopment,thereareotherfactorsinvolvedsuchaseducation,training,skills,health,nutrition,safety,environment,sanitation,politicalfreedom,choiceetc.N
8、everthe-lessitremainstheleadingindicatorofdevelopment.Wecandeducethatwhereeconomicgrowthisoccurring,developmentisbeingexperi