food for work programme
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Food For Work Programme- Bangladesh
• The Food For Work Programme (FFWP) arose in the aftermath of the 1974 famine in Bangladesh.
• An added dimension of FFWPs is that it seems easier to ensure political support for this program than for other poverty programs.
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ObjectivesConstruction and maintenance of agriculture-
supporting infrastructure during the slack agricultural season.
Enhancing disaster preparedness for local communities, including building cyclone shelters.
Payment to the laborers on an in-kind basis with food.
Provide income to the rural poor during the slack period when the unemployment rate in rural areas increases.
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Timothy Besley-Stephen Coate For a better policy than welfare, following seven conditions are met:
Less reduction of incentives for the poor to acquire human capital and other assets.Greater net benefits of the work output of the program.Harder to screen the poor without the workfare requirement.
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Lower opportunity cost of time for poor workers.
Higher opportunity cost of time for non-poor workers
The share of the poor is smaller.
Less social stigma attached to participating in a workfare program Timothy Besley
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Incentives or benefits Benefits rural development.Incentives for the poor to invest in their
future.The FFWP generally reaches the poor rather
than subsidizing everyone.Easier to ensure political support.
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Information A finding shows that in villages endowed with
infrastructure, participation in the women labor force have traditionally had a very low rate of labor force participation in Bangladesh.
The FFWP helps in raising women’s effective income and status, while lowering birth rates, and leading to better nutrition for children.
Stabilizes food grain prices in the market to improve food consumption and nutrition of the participating households.
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IFPRI & BIDS Surveys were conducted by the International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington in conjunction with the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in Dhaka.
Samples taken over 30 locations throughout the country.
Division of sites among "more developed" and "less developed" villages.
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Other OrganizationsPrivate voluntary organizations such as CARE
and MCC :• play an important monitoring role• makes sure projects meet development goals
& sound engineering standards• observing pay rates actually paid to laborers.
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World Bank - Martin Ravallion :• confirms the overwhelming concentration of
participants in the program among the poorest of Bangladeshis .
• estimates that 60% of the participants in the FFWP came from the poorest quartile of rural households.
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Food For Education ProgrammeProvides food to poor
families when they send their children to school rather than to work.
Helps the country achieve its triple objectives
increasing educational levels,
decreasing child labor, providing food aid to
poor families.
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DisadvantageGovernment-financed labor-intensive
construction is probably not a permanent solution to poverty.
Needed infrastructure work may not be in the vicinity of the poor.
Corruption has not been entirely prevented. Lack of integration with other important local
rural development schemes.
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ConclusionInspite of the various problems faced by the FFWP in Bangladesh and the inherent disadvantages of the program, it has been quite phenomenal in helping people where it is most necessary. A great advantage of this program is that it helps the poorer sections of the community more than the well off people in rural areas. And added to this is the political support that can be easily garnered for this program. So, it is implemented quite efficiently in the rural areas.
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Besley, Timothy J., and Stephen Coate, (1992), "Workfare versus Welfare: Incentive Arguments for Work Requirements in Poverty Alleviation Programs", American Economic Review, 82, 249-261
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Ravallion, Martin. Reaching the Poor through Rural Public Employment. World Bank Discussion Paper 94, 1990.
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