By Takia Islam Toma
The 180 Days of the Government of Bangladesh: Key Initiatives & Achievements infographic highlights major government initiatives and achievements during the first 180 days across several priority areas. Key measures include digital and educational transformation, expansion of broadband connectivity, digital ICT skills development, streamlined business licensing, expansion of digital land services, and the implementation of the “One Teacher, One Tab” programme. In the areas of social protection and education, initiatives such as the Family Card, Farmers Card, 43 education priority programmes, and tuition-free education for women...
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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...
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Demand for social protection is growing in low income countries and fragile situations. In recent years, the success of social protection (SP) interventions...
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This paper develops and discusses a Proxy Means Test (PMT) based household targeting system for Bangladesh. The PMT model derived from household survey...
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The paper contains a framework for linking social protection with growth and productivity, an updated review of the literature, new original work filling...
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Recent years have seen a perceptible increase in interest on social safety nets in developing countries. The emergence of such a policy focus...
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Developing and least developed countries suffer from high rate of unemployment and poverty. Additionally, they are vulnerable to external shocks and natural disasters....
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In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national antipoverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The program offers up...