Abstract

The Policy of 'Job For All and Education For All' and The 'Empowerment of The Poor' in Bangladesh

Highlights

  • Our government has been trying to implement the policy of 'education for all' since the year of 1992-93 which is a constitutional obligation

  • It is women who are thought to be made empowered through micro-credit programs, but there are many government and nongovernment development activities initiated for the overall empowerment of the poor

  • In the case of micro-credit programs and other development activities, it is definitely clear that there is little space for the poor to articulate their own vision to bring about change in their lives, rather policy makers, planners, development workers impose a kind of change that they deem fit for the poor

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Summary

Introduction

Our government has been trying to implement the policy of 'education for all' since the year of 1992-93 which is a constitutional obligation. Women must recover and develop a positive self-image and self-confidence inspiring a greater propensity to challenge the root causes of their long-term exploitation and oppression It is women who are thought to be made empowered through micro-credit programs, but there are many government and nongovernment development activities initiated for the overall empowerment of the poor. These so-called development activities are basically launched to improve the socio-economic condition of the people living below poverty line. The whole process does not detect exploitation, discrimination and domination that are very much found in existence in the society and they are responsible for the situation in which the poor live

The Myth of Empowerment Needs to Be Broken
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