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By Takia Islam Toma and Sadia Afrin Suvra
This report highlights qualitative findings from an SSPS Programme field visit to SWAPNO project areas in Bagerhat, evaluating the multidimensional impact of social protection on women's empowerment. The assessment reveals that combining conditional cash transfers with structured savings, financial literacy, and vocational training significantly enhances beneficiaries' self-confidence, economic agency, and resilience to market shocks. Key achievements include successful livelihood diversification into high-yield enterprises—such as soft-shell crab farming, livestock, and micro-enterprises—alongside improved financial inclusion, active participation in local governance, and equitable social...
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Trapped in the realm between market failure and social justice, Bangladesh’s objective of alleviating poverty is marred by its inability to mobilize enough...
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A variety of means and mechanisms have been recommended to assist with the implementation of projects aimed at allowing the extreme poor to...
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The paper explores the linkages between ‘Education’ and ‘Poverty’ and the possibility of poverty reduction through better employment opportunities. The paper proceeds with...
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This report addresses the recent dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh with particular focus on two groups of the poorest - the chronically...
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COnditiOnal Cash transfers (CCts) are prOgrams that transfer cash, generally to poor households, on the condition that those households make prespecified investments in...
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Economic, moral and political reasons may underlie the choice between targeting and universal models of social provision. In the debate about universal versus...
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Recent years have seen a perceptible increase in interest in social safety nets with in developing countries. Although many critics have questioned social...