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This chapter outlines and justifies the main goal of the book, which is to examine the ways in which remittances contribute to social resilience of migrant households in rural Bangladesh. The chapter also discusses the multi-method research approach adopted in the book and explains how it is applied to make sense of how rural village households make use of remittance income.
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The HIES is the major source of socio-economic information at the household level in Bangladesh . It provides data on household expenditure , income, consumption , savings , housing conditions , education , employment , health, sanitation , water supply, electricity usage, and so on. Since the pre-independence period (1973–1974), the HIES has been conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS ) of the Government of Bangladesh , and the Cost of Basic Needs (CBN) method was used. Since then, including the latest survey in 2010, the BBS has successfully completed 15 rounds of HIES to date.
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Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh . The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) announced the northeastern Mymensing region as eight administrative divisional headquarters consist of six districts of the Mymensing region, on 12 January 2015.
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A village in Bangladesh consists of several mahalla or wards.
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Bangladesh is a riverine country, and it has about 700 rivers including tributaries. With a total area of 147,570 square kilometers in Bangladesh, the total length of all rivers is 24,140 kilometers. From 1986 to 2007, total 232 million, on an average 10 million people are affected by flood /erosion (GoB 2009b).
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Grameen Bank (GB) is a micro-finance organization and community development bank , providing credit to the very poorest of rural Bangladesh , without any guarantee. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 jointly to Muhammad Yunus and the GB for their efforts in fostering economic and social development.
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Sikder, M.J.U., Higgins, V., Ballis, P.H. (2017). Introduction: Migration, Remittances, and the Pursuit of Livelihood. In: Remittance Income and Social Resilience among Migrant Households in Rural Bangladesh. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57771-9_1
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