CPD’s suggestion can mitigate the effects of inflation on poor households
Raising allocations is vital, but not enough to address poverty
Governments tend to focus on immediate needs, but we also need to ensure that long-term poverty reduction efforts are being developed parallelly.
In-depth poverty research in Bangladesh requires understanding the structural factors behind poverty.
The national budget of FY2024-25 is set to be announced at a time when Bangladesh’s economy is going through a difficult phase.
30 percent of total social safety allocations going to the non-poor
While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.
PM tells envoys
People really are struggling beyond any comprehension to get by—at least for you and me.
There are very few programmes that exclusively target the extreme poor. A background paper has revealed the actualw amount allocated in the budget for the extreme poor may be even below 1 percent of the GDP.
