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Traditional Profession and Livelihood: A Study on Sweeper Community

Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development

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Title Traditional Profession and Livelihood: A Study on Sweeper Community
 
Creator Chowdhury, Syed Lutful Kabir
 
Description The study aims to find the trend of traditional profession, livelihood situation of sweeper community and causes behind the living in between poverty in Bangladesh. Survey and focus group discussion (FGD) were taken as method. The findings show that all household of the sweeper are being deprived from socio economic advantages, comparatively with general community. Most of the sweeper's households are burden by excess expenditure over income. They are depending on loan from informal sector. Over the generation, they have not been changing their profession radically due to several causes. Government and non- government sector should take more initiative that ensures sweeper communities access to same rights and services enjoyed by mainstream society. Immediate action is necessary to uplift and reform their livelihood and profession
 
Publisher The International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE)
 
Date 2011-08-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Peer-reviewed Article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JEDS/article/view/240
 
Source Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development; Vol 2, No 3 (2011); 87-93
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JEDS/article/view/240/125
 
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