How Infrastructure and Financial Institutions Affect Rural Income and Poverty: Evidence from Bangladesh
利用1991-2001年孟加拉国农村家庭面板数据，研究发现灌溉、道路、电力和信贷扩张提高了农村收入，但并未显著减少最贫困家庭的贫困。
The mechanisms by which the poor benefit from economic growth remain a topic of debate in development literature. We address this issue in the context of rural Bangladesh, using a pooled dataset of three household panels between 1991-2001. Expansion of irrigation, paved roads, electricity, and access to formal and informal credit have (through different veins) led to higher rural farm and non-farm incomes, accounting for exogenous local agroclimatic endowments that explain a large part of the variation in the growth of infrastructure and credit programmes. However, this has not translated into substantial reductions in poverty for the poorest households.