View Document By Aminul Arifeen & Arju Afrin Kathy Does Bangladesh’s Flagship Workfare Programme Deliver? Evidence from HIES Panel Data and Two-Upazila Case Studies is a research-based working paper that evaluates the effectiveness of the Employment Generation Programme for the Poorest (EGPP), Bangladesh’s largest public workfare initiative. Using data from three rounds of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES 2010, 2016, and 2022), along with field-level case studies from Kurigram Sadar and Shyamnagar, the paper examines the programme’s impact on poverty reduction, food security, women’s empowerment, livelihood diversification, and seasonal...