Do the Slum Dwellers Enjoy the Basic Constitutional and Economic Rights as a Citizen in Bangladesh?
Global Disclosure of Economics and Business
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Do the Slum Dwellers Enjoy the Basic Constitutional and Economic Rights as a Citizen in Bangladesh?
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Hossain, Basharat
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Slum Dwellers, Standard of Living, Basic Needs, Constitutional and Economic rights, Bangladesh
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Bangladesh is a country of about 156million people including nearly 7.81 million of slum people. This paper investigates 28 years data for 1986- 2014 periods on the living standard of slum dwellers of Bangladesh. It presents the different forms of deprivations, sufferings and miseries of slum people from basic needs including social, constitutional and economic rights. More specifically, the wretchedness of slum dwellers in housing, drinking water, sanitation, food intake, healthcare, education, employment, income patterns, social status and security, economic and public assistance has been explored in this paper. In addition, poverty scenario and services of social organization among slum people has been focused in this paper. Finally, it recommends some policies to improve the living conditions of slum dwellers in Bangladesh.JEL Classification Code: I31, I38, I13, I18, I25, E26, O18, O15, O17 Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11903/gdeb.v3n2.3
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i-Proclaim
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2014-12-15
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://i-proclaim.my/archive/index.php/gdeb/article/view/114
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Global Disclosure of Economics and Business; Vol 3, No 2 (2014): 6th Issue; 131-142
2307-9592 2305-9168 |
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eng
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http://i-proclaim.my/archive/index.php/gdeb/article/view/114/113
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Rights |
Copyright (c) 2016 Basharat Hossain
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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