Social capital and poverty alleviation: the case of Bangladesh

Abstract

Bangladesh is a country, which is facing an uphill task to alleviate its level of poverty. The huge pressure of population, frequent visit to natural calamities like flood and cyclone, wide spread political unrest and the existence of abysmal corruption at all levels of public and private sector render its development effort insignificant Besides in the absence of a suitable in fracture, prevent achieve and poor administrative mechanism, non-existence of people in the task of development did not take place as expected. It is essential to note here that social capital at micro, micro and macro to level are to be nurtured equally along with financial and or other tangible resources, in order to achieve a better sustainability for economic development.