Poverty trends for Division

For all It's progress, however, Bangladesh remains a poor country- with an estimate 47 million people in poverty in 2010 and disparities in incomes and huma capabilities across income and occupational groups, gender, and regions. Underlying the National poverty story are significant difference between regions. Dhak, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions in the eastern part of the country experienced rapid poverty reduction Between 2000 and 2005. In the west, the grains were much similar for rajshahi and nonexistent for Barisal and Khulna.   This pattern was substantially reversed over 2005-2010. Khulna, over 2005-2010. Khulna, Rajshahi and Barisal Divisions all registered unpressive reduction in rural poverty that allowed them to catch up considerably with their Eastern division.  In contrast reduction in rural poverty was much more modest in Chittagon,  and Sylhet while it remained stagnant in Dhaka. These results are partly explained by in- migration from  the Western divisions to the Eastern Divisions, especially to Dhaka, but also reflect grains from policy attention to agriculture and rural development as well as improved road transport linkages between the Western divisions and the growth centres in Dhaka and Chittagon.  However and improving the peace of poverty reduction and addressing the constraints faced by economically lagging regions and cushioning therefore remain challenge.