Social security programmes are important for addressing poverty and vulnerability but there exist significant
exclusion and inclusion errors. Problems arise both from supply and demand sides. Keeping aside the supply side issues, the objective of this research project is to find out the demand side problems. This project thus is about identifying barriers to access SSPs by the poor and marginalized groups.
Research Objectives
- Identifying the reasons behind the high rate of exclusion for poor and marginalized people in SSPs
- Highlighting specific barriers including those at socio-cultural and political spheres
- Devising specific policy recommendations for eliminating the barriers
Methodological approaches
- Desk research for literature review
- Qualitative methods
- Empirical approach using micro-econometrics from HIES and BIHS .
- Field survey for gathering first-hand information
