Data by the finance ministry showed that the allocation for the pensions and interest payments account for 30 percent of the total social security programme fund of Tk 126,090 crore for the current fiscal year of 2023-24.
Social Safety Net Allocations Bangladesh: Data by the finance ministry showed that the allocation for the pensions and interest payments account for 30 percent of the total social security programme fund of Tk 126,090 crore for the current fiscal year of 2023-24.
Mohammad Abu Eusuf, a private sector employee who lives in Dhaka’s Mirpur, earns about Tk 23,000 per month. But the income is not adequate for him to manage his monthly expenses given the ongoing inflationary pressure.
CARE Bangladesh organised a dissemination event on the completion of a collaborative research project between CARE Bangladesh and the University of Arizona titled "Gender, Power and Resilience in Char and Haor Communities of Bangladesh". This research project used an innovative research methodology named "Community-based Ethnography (CBE) for the first time in Bangladesh.