Targeted cash transfers to poor households could reduce Bangladesh’s poverty rate by 6.13 percentage points, according to the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), as the think-tank argued that current social safety net programmes are plagued by inefficiencies such as errors in beneficiary selection.
At a dialogue in Dhaka yesterday, the CPD proposed providing Tk 4,500 per month to targeted households based on their level of income. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star’s Google News channel.
The CPD said households could be identified using a poverty scorecard and intervention approaches could be tailored to poverty-prone, climate-vulnerable and highly […]
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