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Food for Work (FFW) Programme is an important policy instrument for the Government of Bangladesh, designed to augment the income of rural poor during a lean agricultural season. The present study evaluates the short run impact of the FFW Programme on the households residing in the vicinity of project sites of this programme. Nature and magnitude of the employment-generating capability of the programme, and its impact on the incomes of the participating households. (DÜI-Sen)

"Modern work on the 'capability approach' (or 'capabilities approach') dates from Amartya Sen's 1979 Tanner Lecture on 'Equality of What?' which addressed a central question for egalitarians: what should egalitarians seek to equalise? In this context Sen suggested that 'what is missing in all this ... is some notion of "basic capabilities": a person being able to do certain basic things' (Sen 1982: 367). This insight was further developed in Sen's writings on development, normative economics and moral and political philosophy. Martha Nussbaum's engagement with Sen's work and her endorsement of the approach also contributed to the expansion of interest in this area. Subsequently, the approach has inspired a large and growing literature across many disciplines, encompassing both theoretical and empirical domains, and including work which is relevant to policy makers"--

Collection of four articles on the concept, measurement and monitoring of poverty, the limited impact of the rapid rate of growth in Bangladesh agriculture on the distribution of income or alleviating poverty in the rural areas of this country, critique of some official estimates which show a dramatic decline in poverty in Bangladesh in the 1980s and analysis of a remarkable change that has occurred in the structure of the labour force in the rural areas of this country and the relationship of this change to the recent trends in poverty. (DÜI-Sen)