Does Rural-Urban Migration Play any Role for Survival in rural Bangladesh?

causing about 1,800 deaths. The floods in 1988 were even more serious, covering about 60 percent of the land area, affecting about 45 million people, and causing more than 2,300 deaths 28. In 1998, over 68 percent of the country was inundated 29 and caused about 2,380 deaths. In 2000 and 2002, floods affected approximately 20 million people. In the year 2004, a devastating monsoon flood submerged two-thirds of the country; close to 36 million people were affected, 726 died, and millions of people were made homeless 30 Also in 2005, floods occurred again in some areas of Bangladesh, affecting people’s livelihood, assets and activities. The frequent cases of floods and river-bank erosions are found as significant causes for homelessness, landlessness and consequent migration for many thousand people ever