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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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50 years of Bangladesh: Why chase higher growth rates if even distribution can do more for the same? (Dhaka Tribune)

December 10, 2021


Dhaka Tribune published an article writing that only in a few exceptional cases, a well-orchestrated strategy of making growth more inclusive was able to simultaneously attain higher growth and lower inequality. The article mentions a paper titled Ascent, Descent, Churning, Persistence and Permanent Escape: Contemporary Poverty Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh, the authors provided new evidence on the poverty dynamics in Bangladesh in the 2010s using the three rounds of a large-scale rural representative panel data of the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) of 5,024 households generated by IFPRI-Bangladesh

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