Professor Dr. Shamsul Alam

Member (Senior Secretary)

General Economics Division

Planning Commission

Government of Bangladesh

 

 

 

Op-Eds

Challenges in implementing social protection programmes

April 25, 2017

Social security is important not only for addressing vulnerability, but also for solving the problems of entrenched poverty and reducing marginalisation. The importance of a well-designed social security system has increasingly been accepted within national and global policy circles for addressing triple problems of poverty, vulnerability and marginalisation. Bangladesh’s latest initiative in social security—National Social Security Strategy (NSSS)—takes up the challenges through an inclusive, focused, and coordinated approach to poverty reduction.

Read more in The Financial Express  

National Social Security Strategy: A Roadmap to Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh
November 6, 2015
 Social security is important not only for addressing vulnerability, but also for solving the problems of entrenched poverty and reducing marginalisation. The importance of a well-designed social security system has increasingly been accepted within national and global policy circles for addressing triple problems of poverty, vulnerability and marginalisation. Bangladesh’s latest initiative in social security—National Social Security Strategy (NSSS)—takes up the challenges through an inclusive, focused, and coordinated approach to poverty reduction.