Social Safety Nets in Bangladesh
A national review of Bangladesh's social safety nets — the issues, and an analytical inventory of the programmes — prepared by PPRC with UNDP.
Policy review · Social protection · 2011
- 2011
- published by PPRC
- 3
- authors
About this work
Social Safety Nets in Bangladesh: Review of Issues, Analytical Inventory came out of the PPRC–UNDP Policy Research Initiative in 2011, while I was a Senior Research Fellow at the Power and Participation Research Centre. It is a comprehensive national policy review, and it fed into the discussion on rationalising the state's safety net programmes.
What it covers
- A review of the issues facing social safety nets in Bangladesh.
- An analytical inventory of the safety net programmes in place.
Publication details
- Rahman, Hossain Zillur, Liaquat Ali Choudhury, and Khondokar Shakhawat Ali. Social Safety Nets in Bangladesh: Review of Issues, Analytical Inventory. PPRC-UNDP Policy Research Initiative, Power and Participation Research Centre, 2011.
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