RBA Bangladesh Report

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This document is an overview of the situation for indigenous peoples in Bangladesh. It was prepared for the World Bank's South Asia region. As stated in the Preface, the aim was to provide "World Bank staff with relevant information and practical guidelines ... to support operational work and policy implementation. This includes necessary guidance in working with ethnic minorities and understanding them better in the context of preparing and implementing projects in Bangladesh. The Profile thus aims at being practical, concrete and operationally relevant". Notes: (1) The Profile employs the broader term "vulnerable ethnic minority" instead of "indigenous people", (2) It was decided to limit the circulation of the Profile to World Bank staff, and (3) any consideration of issues that at the time could be construed as being politically sensitive do not any longer apply.

This paper deals with progress of Bangladesh in the sense of human development reviewing the Human Development Report-2014.

The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh lies on the country's international borders with Myanmar and India. The present boundaries of the CHT were carved out of the British colonial empire in 1860. CHT is about 10% of the total land area of the country. Formerly, CHT was a single unified district, but administrative reorganization has led to its division into the three districts of Rangamati, Khagrachari and Bandarban. The CHT differs from the rest of Bangladesh, which is a flat terrain. Scattered along this mountain range, there live 11 different ethnic minority groups. Customary laws and practices within these communities vary, but they share commonalities in terms of their social and political organization. The hills are relatively rich in natural resources, particularly timber and bamboo. In recent years, parts of the region have been developed for pulpwood and rubber plantation by Bangladeshi companies and investors. The paper exploresthe changes of administrative system of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and how the government policies regarding natural resources specially land and forests have created and a situation of 'dispossession' for the ethnic minority groups in Bangladesh. The field material for this paper has been collected from Bandarban and Rangamati districts of CHT during June-December 2013 through participant observation. Focusing on the period after independence of Bangladesh in 1971 it becomes evident that government initiatives to improve the situation of the multi ethnic region through land and forest governance, improvement of the transport and communication systems, the offering of more schools and better of education, creating markets and job opportunities have created mutations in citizenship and the encroaching borders of the nation has over ridden some aspects of the ethnic boundaries. The paper entails that smaller ethnic groups are in a disadvantageous, unequal and marginalized position because of the Government's differential treatment of populations through bio-politicial mechanism which have inserted different groups of people differently in the process of development. This situation sometime overlaps with pre-formed racial, gender hierarchies and creates fragmented citizenship for the people of the same country.

The Financial Express on December 21, 2014 Economic development without socio-economic challenges is inconceivable. The journey to development has never been easy for any nation and it is always a long hard battle to turn promises into achievements. Bangladesh is a developing economy growing with an annual growth rate of around 6 per cent, striving to become a member of the middle income group. The per capita income and GDP size of Bangladesh are also growing with time. The country's economy is changing from traditionally agro-based to industry-based entity. The country is making progress which is more or less visible. At the same time, it is also visibly clear that the growth is not inclusive. Economists have defined economic growth as the increase in the market value of the goods and services produced by an economy over time. It is conventionally measured as the percentage rate of increase in real gross domestic product, or real GDP. In our case, not all the people are getting...

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