Poverty Alleviation

Garrett Cullity claims that his formal account of fairness has widespread practical application.  Using an appeal to fairness, Cullity claims to have limited the extreme moral demand proposed in Peter Singer’s, ‘Famine, Affluence and Morality’. However, I draw on scientific studies in psychology that explore the impact of the self-serving bias on judgements about fairness to argue that judgements made according to Cullity’s account of fairness are particularly vulnerable to the self-serving bias unless steps are taken to neutralize the bias. I argue that Cullity’s solution to extreme moral demandingness is threatened by these findings. Research suggests that the self-serving bias is less effective when there is clear guidance about what fairness consists in. However, I argue not only that such guidance is not available from Cullity’s account, but also that it is impossible to give.

This paper explores the pro-poor tourism literature's proposition that businesses "at all levels and scales of operation" can contribute to poverty alleviation, and questions the view that small-scale "alternative" forms of tourism development are preferable in delivering wide-ranging benefits to the poor. Based on research in Fiji, it uses the multidimensional view of poverty modelled on Zhao and Ritchie's integrative research framework for "anti-poverty tourism" that identifies three determinants: "opportunity", "empowerment" and "security". The paper reveals that both small-and large-scale tourism make positive contributions to revenue generation, job creation and community development, but there is considerable potential for local procurement and labour conditions to improve. Poverty has increased in Fiji, despite rising tourism arrivals, but this problem is complex and is linked to agricultural decline. An underlying concern is that tourism policy in Fiji encourages development of large, foreign-owned resorts, while indigenous businesses often do not receive the support they require to be successful in the long term. Thus, indigenous Fijian participation in the tourism sector is predominantly as employees or as recipients of lease monies, and rarely as those directly involved in tourism planning and development, therefore limiting the pro-poor potential of the sector in Fiji.

Based on the failure to cut down poverty rate to 7% by 2019, I argue that the Indonesian Government needs not only planning and identifying targets, but also look for ways to realise its objectives. The State Budget spent through social spending only have a minuscule impact on poverty reduction, which I strongly suspect to eventuate because the poor lacks the capability to decide on which aspects they should utilise the funds.

I then explained two underlying aspects of blockchain technology: smart contracts and digital identity, and how these two could help the Government achieve its development objectives.

The Government must be both a planner and a searcher. Identify what needs to be resolved and search for ways to resolve it.

Diarrhea and respiratory infections account for more than two-fifths of all deaths among children under five. Parental education and economic status are well-known risk factors for child morbidity, but little is known about whether education and economic status operate synergistically or independently to influence children's health. Confirming the presence and direction of such interactions is important to better target education and development policies. Our objective is to test for interactions between parental education and economic status in predicting the risk of diarrhea and respiratory illness among children under five, before and after adjusting for key proximate risk factors.

A commonly stated reason for low adoption rates of precision agriculture (PA) is that its benefits are insufficient to justify the costs. Ostensibly, this seems to preclude any possibility of PA in developing countries, where profitability is much lower than in developed economies, and where there is only localised prospect of supporting high technology. We question this assertion, and postulate that the basic purpose of PA -to provide spatial information to reduce the uncertainty -far from being a luxury, could be viewed as essential to accelerate change in the developing world, even if it is used in a different form to that offered in Europe or North America.

This paper explores the range of likely and potential progress on poverty eradication in fragile states to 2030. Using the International Futures model and recently released 2011 International Comparison Program data, this paper calculates current (2015) poverty for a US$1.90 poverty line, and subsequently runs three scenarios. The estimates suggest that there are 485 million poor in fragile states in 2015, a 33.5 per cent poverty rate. This paper's Base Case scenario results in a forecasted 22.8 per cent poverty rate in fragile states by 2030. The most optimistic scenario yields a 13.1 per cent poverty rate for this group of countries (257 million). An optimistic scenario reflecting political constraints in fragile states yields a 19.1 per cent poverty rate (376 million). Even under the most optimistic circumstances, fragile states will almost certainly be home to hundreds of millions of poor in 2030, suggesting that the world must do things dramatically differently if we are to reach the high hanging fruit and truly 'leave no one behind' in the next fifteen years of development.

This paper attempts to focus on some of the issues and problems related to poverty and sustainable development in Bangladesh from the perspective of environmental protection and ecological balance. It has been argued that poverty alleviation and environmental protection are in harmony to reinforce sustainable development. This paper is an attempt to analyze the development scenario that aims at reducing poverty. However, in spite of the best efforts of government and NGOs the various indices of development in the developing countries have already faced difficulties in the context of achieving their goals and targets. This paper argues that instead of contributing to sustainability most of the development programs having a negative effect on overall environment and society.

This paper examines whether poor and vulnerable groups in society share in the benefits of a foreseen economic expansion in the demand for fruit, vegetables and flowers from consumers at home and abroad. Primary survey data is collected on the differentiated position of low-income households in different supply structures (with varying levels of vertical coordination) and markets (national, regional and international markets). The data support the following hypotheses: (i) For many resource-poor agents, horticulture-related activities make substantial contributions to their livelihood security-certainly in the short term. (ii) Farming, trading services, small-scale retail, and farm labour are activities to which members of resource-poor and economically vulnerable households have the best access given their endowments. (iii) A move from food production for home consumption towards cash crops or off-farm labour is supported when there are sufficient options to reduce livelihood risk in the household. (iv) Both value creation and the generation of opportunities for (self-) employment in domestic marketing channels are substantial, and possibly outweigh the economic impact of overseas export marketing. Policy support is best tailored to specific conditions and specific actors to achieve a maximum impact on poverty alleviation. For that purpose, a three-tiered grouping of marketing channels for livelihood development is proposed.

Jacques Ellul argued that modernity's nearly exclusive reliance on science and technology to design society would threaten hunan freedom. Of particular concern for Ellul was the prospect of the technical milieu overwhelming culture. The commodification of the Volta River in order to modernize Ghana illustrates the Ellulian dilemma of the autonomy of technique. Displacing a commons way of life, the Volta River Project has imposed an energy commodity regime and a technocratic management scheme to rule the basin, which now includes modern aluminum manufacturing. But after 50 years of modernization, there is little evidence of poverty alleviation or an advance of freedom.

We study the effects on accountability in government service delivery of decentralizing administration of an antipoverty program. While governments at both central and local levels are vulnerable to antipoor policy biases owing to political capture, centralized delivery systems are additionally prone to bureaucratic corruption, owing to problems in monitoring bureaucratic performance. Decentralizing the delivery system promotes cost-effectiveness and improves intraregional targeting at low program scales. But interregional targeting may deteriorate, as central grants to high-poverty regions shrink, owing to high capture of local governments by local elites in such regions. D

There is increasing pressure in international development to demonstrate that aid spending has an impact. This includes spending on policy research. While there is much debate about appropriate methods and evidence for demonstrating impact, ‘a more recent development is the movement to include practice-based evidence alongside more traditional scientific evidence in the accumulation of knowledge about what works, when, and why?’ (Forss, Marra and Schwartz 2011: 5).

The concept of practice-based evidence accepts that the world is a complicated, messy place that cannot be easily controlled. Those promoting its use suggest that it can provide additional insight about impact. Impact evaluation is an assessment of both the intended and unintended outcomes of a given intervention, where ‘the proper analysis of impact requires a counterfactual of what those outcomes would have been in the absence of the intervention’ (OECD 2001).

This paper explores the challenge of using practice-based evidence gathered with civil society organisations – and agencies that support them – to learn more about the impact of policy-related work. Specifically, it uses the work undertaken in the Sexuality, Poverty and Law programme at the Institute of Development Studies, and focuses on one case study that looked at sex workers’ experiences of economic empowerment programmes in Ethiopia. The purpose is not to assess the case study or particular interventions, but to better understand what policy impact might look like.

The difficulties most Latin American countries have experienced in returning to sustained growth after the world recession and debt crisis of 1982 have surprised and frustrated many observers. Concern is increasingly expressed about the social costs of this period of recession and adjustment, especially for the poorest sectors of the population. Nowhere is this concern better placed than Brazil, with roughly 45 million people living in households below the poverty line in1987. By effectively failing to adjust internal demand to the decline in external funds, Brazil set records with respect to its neighbors in per capita growth and inflation between 1982-88. Brazil, by choosing an expansionary fiscal path, traded growth in the middle years of the decade for inflation and a larger debt three years later. This study looks at the impact of that tradeoff on poverty alleviation in Brazil. Macroeconomic policy affects few people directly. Instead, macroeconomic policy operates through fact...

It is widely accepted that biodiversity loss and poverty are linked problems and that conservation and poverty reduction should be tackled together. However, success with integrated strategies is elusive. There is sharp debate about the social impacts of conservation programs and the success of community-based approaches to conservation. Clear conceptual frameworks are needed if policies in these two areas are to be combined. We review the links between poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation and present a conceptual typology of these relationships.

Current payment for environmental service (PES) schemes face challenges in the form of evaluation of opportunity costs and ecosystem service delivery, high transaction costs, and difficulties in ensuring conditionality. Even when these conditions are met, PES may be undermined by a lack of inclusivity, leading to societal conflicts over land use. We propose a new PES-type approach that we call

Using panel data econometric techniques and propensity score matching procedures, this study evaluates the impact of the MAUNLAD agricultural development program - a program designed to help alleviate poverty in Philippine coconut-producing communities. Our results ...

This article elaborates on an action research undertaken by three researchers from a business school of a leading university in the Philippines on the contribution of non-formal education programs in poverty alleviation, aimed to initiate women empowerment and youth development among selected women and youth in the parishes they belong to. Non-formal education programs such as home-based livelihood program, parenting for women, leadership, character building, values clarification, and priority setting for women and youth were administered as a way to reduce the selected parishioners’ vulnerabilities arising from poverty. Using outcome mapping as a project cycle management tool, changed behaviours, attitudes, and values were identified not as final indicators but as an indicator of progress in empowerment and development to which the non-formal education programs contribute.

Adherence Policy does two things. First it signals a strategy that seeks to systematize the synergies in policy options that can best respond to the challenges of inequality and poverty reduction. More importantly, however, it strengthens the policy dialogue with NGOs, local parliaments and other stakeholders, by providing them with a platform to gather evidence on either the lack of consistency or coherence of purpose or fairness in application of government policies that impact on poverty and inequality.

Contributing to and providing links between environmental variability and adaptive livelihood strategies, household well-being and development policy, this paper presents an analysis that explores theoretical and policy debates on whether livelihood adaptations and emerging strategies within the context of current environmental change have received the required policy attention and intervention. Livelihood diversification as a poverty reduction strategy has been argued to result in improved well-being or perpetuates a cycle of impoverishment. The paper focuses on communities in vulnerable environments with limited well-being and poor assets. The study examines the changing livelihood strategies and livelihood options of households located within ecosystems perceived to be experiencing environmental change in Northeastern Ghana. On-farm and non-farm diversification and migration as livelihood strategies considered as survival strategies in environments experiencing rising temperatures and erratic rainfall patterns. It is argued that diversified livelihoods are operated within a cycle of impoverishment. The paper calls for geographically and locally sensitive policy intervention approaches that can sustainably expand the livelihood options of the poor in changing environments.

In developing countries poultry rearing has been practiced for many years. The study focused on revealing the level of empowerment of rural women and food assurance through poultry farming especially chicken. Data was collected from one hundred and one respondents through semi structured interview form Chakwal city. The research was conducted over a period of six weeks. The data was entered and then analyzed by correlating it through SPSS. Scope of the study was to observe the effects of poultry rearing on the life of rural women and the way it has contributed to her empowerment and food security at household level. It was observed that poultry rearing at household level has not much enhanced the overall household income yet plays role in contributing to sustain household economy. Besides being healthy and nutritious source of food, it somehow contributes in securing dietary needs especially of the young ones. It has made the women self-employed, more confident, socially empowered and more valued not only in their families but also in their community.

We construct and parameterize an overlapping generations model for an open economy with individuals who differ in innate ability. Key endogenous variables are hours worked, investment in human and physical capital, and per capita growth. The model replicates important data in Belgium since 1960 remarkably well. Simulating it, we observe that behavioral adjustments by households and firms contribute to reverse the negative arithmetical effect of future demographic change on per capita growth. Individuals work and study more. However, with unchanged policies, there remains a net negative effect on annual per capita growth of almost 0.3%-points on average in the next 25 years. This is mainly due to adverse consequences of reduced fertility and a declining working-age population on (the return to) physical capital investment. Model projections also point to rising income inequality induced by demographic change. Differences in the capacity of individuals to respond to increasing life ex...

In seeking ground-up understandings of heart health disparities
facing low-income Malay women in Singapore, this paper locates
their meanings of heart health. Their health narratives reveal the
insidious communicative and structural barriers women face. The
findings show how shame, conceptualized as malu, remains a
barrier to accessing health and help structures. Everyday food
insecurity and stress from caregiving while in impoverishment
also undermine heart health equity. The intersections of gender
and class reveal how caregiving can have a crippling effect on
health outcomes in the low-income context. Low-income women
face multiple burdens that impede heart health care and
management. Women’s heart health interventions should heed
how a culture of shame and structural manifestations of stress
and food insecurity prevent women in low-income settings from
seeking equitable health opportunities.

Microfinance has broadened rapidly since its inception in the late 1970s. However, scholars have divergent views on whether and how much it helps to lift the poor from the economic quagmire. This research investigates the assessment of the impact of participation in micro-finance. It is difficult to disentangle the impact on poverty reduction of microfinance as an anti-poverty intervention scheme and establish a causal relationship between participation and poverty indicators, because of unobserved heterogeneity and reverse causality problems. Using the 2009 data set, first, we estimated propensity scores for participation on several pre-treatment variables. We then matched clients and non-clients on the basis of these variables. Next, we estimated the average treatment effect, considering participation as a treatment, and participants as the treated group. Finally, we employed different matching methods to establish the robustness of the utilized methods. In addition, for the year (2007 and 2009) panel data sets, we used the fixed effect (FE) and random effect (RE) panel data analysis techniques to fully address the two major problems stated above. Although we found significant impact of microfinance on household productive assets, its impact on fixed assets and monthly expenditure is insignificant. The propensity score matching and the panel data analyses identified microfinance as having direct temporary effects on household productive assets but limited (no) effect on households' fixed assets and monthly expenditures.

The carnage and wanton destruction of lives and property in northeastern Nigeria is one that has left an indelible mark, and no doubt affected adversely the northeastern part, leaving in its wake death, fear, hunger, illness, decreased productivity, insecurity and a further plunge into poverty, as an inestimable amount of human and capital resources have been lost to the deadly Boko Haram insurgency. This informs the need for alleviating poverty and developing the capacity of individuals through human capital development. These however are not attainable unless pivotal factors such as security and peace building are put in place. To this end, the paper seeks to establish that security and peace building are necessary ingredients in poverty alleviation and human capital development. The methodology employed is documentary analysis of literatures on the concepts of security and peacebuilding and showing how it influences poverty and human capital development. The paper was able to establish that security serves as a beacon for peace building within a society and provides a favorable environment for government and non-governmental efforts in poverty alleviation and developing human capital. To lay a solid foundation for poverty alleviation and human capital, the paper recommends that structures must be put in place to answer the questions of security.

The book highlights important urban development issues in Punjab such as urbanisation, slums, housing, poverty, urban governance, development, infrastructure/ services etc and suggests major reforms to improve quality of life in urban areas.

The main objectives of this study are to examine the role of public private partnership projects on infrastructure development and economic growth and explore the challenges facing public private partnership projects managed Turkish companies in Somalia. A descriptive research design was used; the study population was the employees of airport and seaport and merchants in Mogadishu and a sample size of 87 were drawn.  A self administered questionnaire was employed to collect the data from respondents and then analyzed by using descriptive statistics with the aid of SPSS. The findings indicated the role of public private partnership played a significant role on the social and infrastructure developments. Establishment of joint ventures under government and privates boosted economic growth significantly through investment and employment creation in Somalia. Finally, the challenges included not only less knowledge to public private partnership undermined and delayed the implementation of these projects directly and it affected on the infrastructure developments currently and  in the long run but also inefficiency from the government intervention and its fragile administration causes delays in the projects’ implementations. Therefore, the study underlined public private partnership could be fruitful if the awareness is promoted as well as government refrains from improper involvements.
Keywords: Public Private Partnerships, Albayrak and  Favori

This book presents the contributions of African and Latin American experts on economic development to the seminar Strategies against poverty: Designs from the North and Alternatives from the South organized by the Conferencia Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO, the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, CROP and the South- South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of development, SEPHIS. The purpose of the seminar was to open space for debate, from a historical perspective, alternative theoretical approaches on the causes of poverty and to explore the, sometimes diverging, strategies to its eradication as proposed by the North, donors and multilateral organizations, and by the South, governments and non-governmental organizations. The particular interest in studying poverty in the context of developing countries, often called the South, is to show the profound socio-economic inequalities existing in these countries and the problems that result when the progr...

The aim of this chapter is to describe how the MNCs can contribute to alleviate poverty and improve the well-being of the workers and  communities, focused in two issues: job creation and CSR practices. For this purpose, the authors analyzed the case of the Mexican MNC FEMSA in Latin America. The results show that FEMSA plays an important role in job creation, with around 250,000 direct jobs in 2015 being created with Mexico and Brazil the most benefitiated with around the 84% of
the jobs. In the case of CSR, 40 programs were identified under three main headings: “our people”, “our community” and “our planet”. Most of the programs are focused in “our community” (25) and the major receiver is Mexico with the 31 programs, the results of these programs show some benefits in the level of life and well-being of the people that has used these.

fit ethics teaching even more closely. Though surely the tale has prior history, it was shared by General Charles C. Krulak, USMC (Ret.) who explained, [t]he word integrity itself is a martial word that comes to us from an ancient Roman army tradition. During the time of the 12 Caesars, the Roman army would conduct morning inspections. As the inspecting centurion would come in front of each legionnaire, the soldier would strike with his right fist the armor breastplate that covered his heart. The armor had to be strongest there in order to protect the heart from the sword thrusts and from arrow strikes. As the soldier struck his armor, he would shout 'integritas,' which in Latin means material, wholeness, completeness, and entirety. The inspecting centurion would listen closely for this affirmation and also for the ring that well-kept armor would give off. Satisfied that the armor was sound and that the soldier beneath it was protected, he would then move on to the next man.

Drawing from the problem of typology creation in its current forms that can be found mainly in policy papers, Berescu offers a critical overview of some of the ways in which the places where impoverished Roma live are named, then labelled and categorized. The delimitation and counting of extreme poverty areas is a highly contentious issue in itself, but admitting that racial segregation exists is an even more difficult one. This is why official documents tend to circumvent the problem of slums and ghettos in Romania and, to a lesser extent, in Eastern Europe. By analysing the underlying methods and the language of reports and strategies we can comprehend the ways in which new ghettos are formed and concealed, and how they will be governed.

Micro-finance and its (purported) capacity to empower women is by now a wellexplored field all over the world. We now have several tools by which micro-finance programmes may be assessed. However, here we attempt to critically assess the claims of the Kerala government's poverty eradication programme, the Kudumbashree, which combines a micro-finance model with other elements through critical feminist lenses. Further, we attempt to place this programme within Kerala's own historical experience of empowering the poor. Given the fact that this major effort to popularise microfinance in Kerala has the twin aims of poverty alleviation and women's empowerment, this seems justified. We try to place the 'micro-finance revolution' in Kerala within the larger historical trajectory of successive 'regimes of empowerment' in order to understand the different political stakes in each, and their implications for gender politics. While using some of the available tools that employ indicators of gender effectiveness to assess the impact of micro-finance in empowering women is certainly a basic exercise, the present approach allows us to draw lessons for effective gender politics through a comparison with earlier modes of empowering the deprived classes in Kerala. Micro-finance and micro-enterprises are undoubtedly among the most keenly researched issues within the broad area of gender and development all over the world. In general, the concern of most researchers interested in gender equity has been to probe the extent to which such enterprises have contributed to advancing

This paper uses systems thinking to explore the palm oil industry, particularly oil palm cultivation in Indonesia. Palm oil is a major commodity in global trade, but oil palm cultivation results in catastrophic environmental destruction. There may be means, however, by which palm oil production might become more sustainable.

This study assesses which agricultural subsectors have the strongest capacity to drive economic growth and poverty reduction in Ethiopia, and what kind of agricultural and nonagricultural growth is needed to achieve the millennium development goal of halving the 1990 poverty rate by 2015. A spatially disaggregated, economywide model was developed under the study, enabling the analysis of growth and poverty reduction linkages at national and regional levels using national household surveys, agricultural sample surveys, geographic information systems, and other national and regional data. The study reveals that agriculture has the potential to play a central role in decreasing poverty and increasing growth in Ethiopia, primarily through growth in staple crops and livestock. Agricultural growth also requires concurrent investments in roads and other market conditions. At the subnational level, similar rates of agricultural growth have different effects on poverty, necessitating regiona...

Pigeonpea is a tropical grain legume grown mainly in India. Though largely considered an orphan crop, pigeonpea has a huge untapped potential for improvement both in quantity and quality of production in Africa. More than any other legume adapted to the region, pigeonpea uniquely combines optimal nutritional profiles, high tolerance to environmental stresses, high biomass productivity and most nutrient and moisture contributions to the soil. The legume can be utilized in several diverse ways while the high genetic variability that exists within the cultivated and wild relatives remains to be explored for further uses. This article highlights the need for popularizing pigeonpea as a major legume crop in Africa. The main constraints to productivity are discussed and recent breeding efforts in Africa highlighted. Important opportunities for improvement are further provided.

The Nobel Prize winning model of micro-lending to the poor has triggered the rapid growth of microfinance industry and it is largely projected as a key enabler for poverty alleviation and supports macro economic growth for the poor regions. This view is challenged by many academic scholars and the press, based on analysis and empirical evidence to support their arguments. Some even argue that microfinance is counterproductive and works against global poverty programs. Based on studying some of these reports, I present a summary view of the concept, growth and the evolution of the microfinance industry and submit that while microfinance initiatives do support the poor and provide a safety-net, these alone cannot provide the benefits in the long run and may even be counterproductive, unless they are implemented and managed as part of other state-driven poverty programmes.

Land degradation is a crucial challenge affecting developing countries and it has been predicted to become a severe limitation and restriction in the near future (Chisholm and Dumsday, 1987; Eckholm, 1976; USAID, 1979; Ward, 1979; Brown and Wolf, 1984; Bennett, 1931; Barbier and Burgess, 1992; Pimentel et al., 1995). Wellbeing has been linked with growths in dependence on ecological resources (e.g. Shackleton and Shackleton, 2012), and because the livelihoods of the poor appear to depend most directly on the supply of ecological services. The objective of this paper is to investigate the problems of land degradation and rural poverty in Nigeria and also, explain the link between rural poverty and land degradation in the region. This paper will suggest new and long lasting solutions to the problem of land degradation in Northern Nigeria. The study was done by analysing secondary source data, a lot of the analysis was solely based on the published report of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The study revealed the rate of poverty in Nigeria has generally skyrocketed since 2000 (with an average 60% of the total population). Study showed that the amount of people living underneath the country’s poverty line of $1 per day is greater in the areas affected by land degradation. The percentage of people living below the poverty line was greater between the years 2004 and 2006. Rapid increase was also noticed between the year 2005 and 2006 in the number of people living in the affected areas and rural areas.  This study recommends that government should enact policies that protect the land and spread awareness about the problem of land degradation.

This paper examines theoretical rationales for the development of complementary, subnational currencies in tandem with the upward adoption of supranational money (for example the Single European Currency) and globalised, stateless finance. It discusses the ideological foundations of competing perspectives on money and society, which are here termed 'orthodox' and 'alternative' approaches. From each of these worldviews derives value-laden claims advocating the adoption of a range of monetary alternatives. The policy objectives of many contemporary regional and local currencies include poverty alleviation, financial deregulation, local economic development, independence from the state or from global economic processes, community development, strengthening social capital and capacity building and redefining economic values. The most common form of local currency in the UK, the Local Exchange Trading Scheme (LETS), appears relevant to each of these agendas, and is consequently gaining support among policymakers and Local Authorities. LETS and other complementary currencies are thus a creative, innovative and increasingly mainstream policy tool with a potentially important role to play in the development of localities, alongside national and international currencies. The policy implications of this are twofold: first, policymakers should support the growth of complementary currencies; second, state welfare policy should be rethought to encourage the jobless and the poor to engage in self -help activities of this sort and so tackle social exclusion within the global economy at a grassroots level. Finally, while LETS appears to be a pluralistic initiative, its 'mainstreaming' is not unproblematic: it risks the neglect and erosion of the 'alternative' aspects which make this local currency so distinctive.

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have proliferated in the past two decades. Bangladesh is one of the world's thirteen most impoverished nations. While agriculture is the largest source of income, it has mostly failed to provide job opportunities for landless people. NGOs are attempting to eradicate poverty via direct engagement with impoverished people. Bangladesh has made tremendous progress in eradicating poverty over several decades. The paper illustrates the impact of BRAC, Grameen Bank, ASA, TMSS, YPSA to support the development of Bangladesh. Since the independence of Bangladesh, the country has witnessed different policylevel changes. The present study highlights how NGOs became a catalyst in the development of Bangladesh.