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. The project will also compare the cost effectiveness and implementation of each of these interventions and see whether they have contributed to the success or failure at household, community and national levels. Government officials, academics, and civil society representatives are scheduled to meet in Dhaka on Tuesday [April 8] to launch the project styled