Tag: social safety net

Ensuring universal pension to create social safety net

- Times Report -

Secretary, FID, Ministry of Finance Sheikh Mohammad Salim Ullah said this while addressing as the chief guest at the inauguration ceremony for the inclusion of all employees of the organization in the Universal Pension Scheme, organized by the non-governmental organization People’s Oriented Program Implementation (POPI) at the Bangabandhu International Conference

Budget FY22: Bring new poor under social safety net

- Kamal Ahmed -

Marginalised people have been affected the most by the Covid pandemic. A large segment of this list includes women, small ethnic groups and farmers. Various studies have shown that a large number of people have fallen below the poverty line anew due to the effects of the pandemic. Experts have

An ‘emergency’ budget in the offing amid Covid-19

- Times Report -

The government is planning to prepare an emergency budget for the next fiscal with extra allocations to procure and manufacture vaccines and expand social safety net. The government initially had decided to allocate another Tk10,000 crore Covid-19 emergency fund for procuring and manufacturing of vaccines in the financial year 2021-22. Officials of