Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme

An initiative of the Cabinet Division and the General Economics Division (GED), Bangladesh Planning Commission, Government of Bangladesh
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Macroeconomic, Vulnerability & Demographic Analyses...

View Document Bangladesh is entering a period of...

Governance Structures, Institutional Architecture, Coordination...

View Document This report assesses the governance structures,...

Macroeconomic, Vulnerability & Demographic Analyses with Integrated Risk Diagnostics and Profiles for Social Policy Systems

View Document Bangladesh is entering a period of significant economic, demographic, and social transition. Over recent decades, the country has achieved substantial progress in economic growth, poverty reduction, human development, and social indicators. At the same time, the context within which social protection systems operate is changing rapidly. Population growth is slowing, urbanisation is accelerating, labour markets are evolving, climate-related risks are increasing, and households are becoming more exposed to economic, health, and livelihood shocks. These changes are occurring alongside a period of political and institutional transition, preparations for graduation...

Social Safety Nets...

View Document Recent years have seen a perceptible increase in interest on social safety nets in developing countries. The emergence of such a policy focus...

Employment Generation for the Hardcore Poor and National Service:...

View Document Developing and least developed countries suffer from high rate of unemployment and poverty. Additionally, they are vulnerable to external shocks and natural disasters....

Does India’s Employment...

View Document In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national antipoverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The program offers up...

Targeting the Poorest:...

View Document The purpose of this study is to help AusAID staff, their counterparts in partner governments and others working in the field of social...

Conditional Cash Transfers:...

View Document Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs)  provide mothers of school-age children in extreme poverty with a cash subsidy conditional on their children's attendance at school...

Improving Access to...

View Document Throughout the developing world there is a growing demand for advice on the design of policies to  facilitate access of the most vulnerable...

Richer but resented:...

View Document Cash transfer interventions form increasingly important parts of social protection systems in most countries. Usually, cash transfers are evaluated against their first order...

Unveiling Social Safety...

View Document Interest in safety nets and social protection is growing exponentially. Ways of strengthening the mare called for in high-level statements, researched in academic...

The Poverty Impact...

View Document The rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and non-agricultural opportunities to employ labor and capital...