2009-2010 - BIDS
2009-2010 - BIDS
2009-2010 - BIDS
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monthly household expenses. The policy brief<br />
recommends increasing targeted cash transfer<br />
and regular monitoring of dropout levels involving<br />
local governments in such events. The policy brief<br />
is prepared by Imran Matin, Monira Parveen,<br />
Narayan Chandra Das, Nick Mascie-Taylor, and<br />
Selim Raihan.<br />
Policy Brief 0902<br />
Price Support, Domestic Procurement Program<br />
and Public Stock Management<br />
The policy brief examines the dilemma of trying<br />
to keep food prices low for consumers, especially<br />
poor people, while ensuring prices are high<br />
enough to give farmers the incentive to grow<br />
more food. Along with filling some important<br />
knowledge gaps, the analysis calls for improving<br />
the effectiveness of procurement and price<br />
support to the farmers. This is prepared by Quazi<br />
Shahabuddin, M. Asaduzzaman, Edward Clay, and<br />
Steve Jones.<br />
Policy Brief 0903<br />
Rice Technologies: Strategic Choices and Policy<br />
Options<br />
Policy Brief 0904<br />
Input Prices, Subsidies and Farmers’ Incentives<br />
This policy brief examines the alternative<br />
approaches of influencing farmer incentives by<br />
subsidizing agricultural inputs or by procurement<br />
of food grain and open market sales in Bangladesh.<br />
The analysis argues that the government needs<br />
to undertake a systematic evaluation of the<br />
effectiveness and cost to the government of each<br />
approach for ensuring more effective and efficient<br />
use of public resources. This brief has been<br />
prepared by M. Asaduzzaman, Quazi Shahabuddin,<br />
Uttam Kumar Deb, and Steve Jones.<br />
Policy Brief 0905<br />
Rethinking Food Security Strategy: Selfsufficiency<br />
or Self-reliance<br />
This policy brief discusses whether Bangladesh<br />
should continue to pursue a national food security<br />
strategy based on self-reliance or return to its<br />
earlier policy<br />
of food<br />
The policy brief discusses options for<br />
Bangladesh for maintaining national<br />
food self-sufficiency at a time when<br />
agricultural diversification is putting<br />
increasing pressure on scarce land<br />
resources and the land available<br />
for rice cultivation is declining<br />
by up to one percent a<br />
year due to river erosion,<br />
urbanization, housing<br />
needs, and infrastructure<br />
development. The brief<br />
has been prepared by<br />
Mahabub Hossain, M.<br />
Asaduzzaman, M.A.<br />
Sattar Mandal, Uttam<br />
Deb, and Steve Jones.<br />
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<strong>BIDS</strong> Biennial Report <strong>2009</strong>-<strong>2010</strong>
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