Pragmatic Household Returns, Remittance and Food Security Nexus: Consequence over the Populace of Bangladesh

Shaela Tasmina Mahbub

Pragmatic Household Returns, Remittance and Food Security Nexus: Consequence over the Populace of Bangladesh

Author(s)	Shaela Tasmina Mahbub
Country	Bangladesh
Abstract	Attaining food security remains as a major concern in the development endeavour of Bangladesh. The country has been successful in avoiding hunger through its policies of feeding the people more specifically with cereal. The Constitution of Bangladesh [Article 15(a)] recognizes the fundamental responsibility of the state is to secure to its citizens the provision of the basic necessities of life including nutritious food. Bangladesh has been successfully able to attain food security for its people emphasizing only on increasing foodgrain availability. In the last three decades, even as its population has more than doubled, foodgrain availability has kept pace with population growth. Heavy dependence on foodgrain makes the people remain nutritionally in poor condition. This situation exemplify that there is disconnect between food policy of feeding the people with foodgrain and nutrition. Therefore to achieve food security in actual sense emphasis should be given on nutrition. Household monthly income and remittance are the two most important determinant of attaining food security through their impact on accessibility dimension. Household monthly income is gradually increasing in Bangladesh and in remittance earning its position is seventh globally. Considering this view present study examine the impact of household monthly income and remittance on the intake of major macronutrients i.e. carbohydrate, protein and fat and micronutrients i.e. vitamin. In the paper, to estimate the parameter the secondary data from the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (2010) of Bangladesh has been used. The data set included daily data on food consumption for consecutive 15 days for 12,240 households. To estimate the parameters both Seemingly Unrelated Regression Equation (SURE) and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) has been used in the paper. It is found that both household monthly income and remittance have positive and significant impact on protein and fat intake. Although household monthly income does not increase carbohydrate intake but remittance significantly raise carbohydrate intake. Household monthly income has positive and significant impact on vitamin intake but remittance has no such impact. However both household monthly income and remittance momentarily improve nutrition status of the population of Bangladesh.
Keywords	Food Security, Household Monthly Income, Remittance and Nutrients
Field	Sociology > Economics
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 1, January-February 2023
Published On	2023-02-27
Cite This	Pragmatic Household Returns, Remittance and Food Security Nexus: Consequence over the Populace of Bangladesh - Shaela Tasmina Mahbub - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 1, January-February 2023.

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