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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Social protection is fast becoming one of the most important themes in development policy. This collection examines the political processes shaping the formulation...
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This paper introduces a significant new multi-disciplinary collection of studies of poverty dynamics, presenting the reader with the latest thinking by a group...
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Despite considerable progress in reducing poverty over the past 15 years, half of Bangladesh's population is still poor. With a combination of sound...
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By adopting the Child Rights Convention (CRC) as their basic policy framework, Save the Children Sweden-Denmark is committed to child rights programming (CRP)...
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For much of its history, social policy has involved choices about whether the core principle behind social provisioning will be “universalism”, or selectivity...
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In October 2010 the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned of continued economic downturn, citing a compilation of data from...
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This paper provides an overview of social protection strategies in the South Asian context, focusing on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka...