WIDER Webinar | The Odds Revisited: Overcoming Underdevelopment – Lessons from the Bangladesh Journey | 24 May | 16:00 UTC+3 | Register here

The United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is proud to invite you to join us for the last WIDER Webinar of the spring: The Odds Revisited: Overcoming Underdevelopment – Lessons from the Bangladesh Journey. We are joined by K.A.S Murshid who presents ways to overcome vulnerabilities through the example of the Bangladesh development story. The webinar will be joined by Darlene K. Mutalemwa as a discussant.

Bangladesh has been highly praised for its development performance across many sectors and indicators — for its record on sustained growth, poverty reduction, gender equality, nutrition, education of girls, and maternal and infant mortality. Its performance has been exceptional in comparison with not just South Asia but globally.

The Bangladesh journey, however, was not easy. It was a product of policy, donor money and induced engagement with the neo-liberal agenda, the push from  NGOs, technology, markets, and change convergences. Most critically, however, there was an overwhelming response from private stakeholders, i.e. the people themselves – women, girls and men who were able to thwart the influence of ‘local power elites’, the opposition of ‘fundamentalist Islam’ to modernization, or of deeply entrenched patriarchy, and circumvent ‘urban bias’, defeat the large-farmer dominated political economy bias, and overcome constraints from a backward, ‘semi-feudal agrarian structure’ characterized by deep poverty and illiteracy to deliver outstanding outcomes.

Register for the free event here.

Leeni Varis Communications Team Assistant
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research Phone +358 (0)9 615 99257 Email varis@wider.unu.edu Web wider.unu.edu Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, FI-00160 Helsinki, Finland