Smallholder poultry as a tool for poverty alleviation has been developed and widely applied in Bangladesh. In this paper, the evolution of the model has been summarized and studies conducted to assess the impact of the poultry model at various stages of its evolution have been critically...

Free entry and exit from an industry is one of the indicators of competitive behaviour of that industry. It is alleged that exit from Bangladesh's poultry industry is high. Based on a survey of exited firms, nature and causes of exit were analysed and their implications for policy for the...