Recent poverty literature in Bangladesh suggests that one key method of poverty alleviation is to
create working opportunities for the poorest or to help them to achieve the ownership of productive
means. Uttaran, a national NGO has been particularly effective in its attempts to distribute both
Khasland and assets to extreme poor households in an effort to move them out of extreme poverty.
Distribution of khasland is assumed to boost national GDP as individual households should be able to
expand their agricultural and industrial produce for sale in markets. It is argued that if an estimated
3.3 million acres of khasland (Barakat, 2010) were to be distributed to the bottom 17.6% of the
entire population, 6 million of extreme poor households (HIES 2010) in addition to IGA support, each
household would have ownership of 55 decimals of khasland each, they might move out of extreme
poverty. Moreover, individuals would become stronger consumers in the market which would
stimulate demand and accelerate economic growth in Bangladesh, enhancing demand for
employment and wages.