Income generation possibilities for landless rural low-income groups (Noakhali District, Bangladesh)
Lasson, A. de
CDR Project Paper, Centre for Development Research, Denmark (A.82.7): 72
1982
Document Number: 334597
The aim of the project was to find out how the rural poor of the area could improve their situation in terms of improved living standards, i.e. to meet the basic needs of food, clothing and shelter 'within' the framework of the existing society. In the longer term the problem is rather to bring about the structural changes needed to abolish such rural poverty. Concentration is on the short term 'surface' measures, since they constitute the here-and-now possibilities for relieving the desperate situation, and because long term fundamental changes seem to be influenced to some extent by the short term 'surface' activities.