New study to assess anti-poverty programmes
New study to assess anti-poverty programmes Staff Correspondent With more than 50 million Bangladeshi people still living in extreme poverty, several research groups are going to undertake a new project to study and better understand long-term effects of anti-poverty interventions. Microfinance, new agricultural technologies, and food or cash transfers for education are three major interventions that would be assessed in terms of their long-term impacts on the livelihoods of the poor, said a news release on Saturday.