Type | Working Paper - CFPR/TUP Working Paper Series |
Title | Impact Assessment of CFPR/TUP: A Descriptive Analysis Based on 2002-2005 Panel Data |
Author(s) | |
Issue | 12 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2006 |
URL | https://ideas.repec.org/p/ess/wpaper/id2567.html |
Abstract | The Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/ TUP) Programme was launched in 2002 with the vision of enhancing economic and social capabilities of ultra poor households in Bangladesh in a manner that could be sustained by the participants. It is widely accepted that most common governmental and non-governmental development interventions in Bangladesh fail to include the ultra poor. Microfinance, even if targeted towards the ultra poor, cannot bring about sustainable growth for the poorest of the poor (Matin 2002, Morduch 1999). This is because the ultra poor are crippled by multiple evils – malnutrition, illiteracy, lack of access to basic health services, limited access to community support – that keep them chronically poor (Sen and Hulme 2004). Transfer payments help the poor over the short term, but do not by themselves trigger sustainable income growth for the ultra poor. Government programmes targeted towards the ultra poor include Vulnerable Group Development, several forms of stipends and allowances and the Rural Maintenance Programme. |
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