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The Report on National Social Security Strategy Review and Monitoring Data, prepared under the Social Protection Policy Support (SPPS) Programme, presents a comprehensive framework for overseeing the final implementation review of Bangladesh’s National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) and strengthening the operational effectiveness of the NSSS Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Dashboard. The report focuses on assessing the implementation progress of the NSSS, adopted in 2015, and its Action Plan II (2021–2026), while identifying institutional challenges, implementation gaps, and opportunities for future social protection reforms. It outlines a structured oversight...
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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...
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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...