Job-friendly industrial policy needed to cut poverty

from The Daily Star

Seminar told
Star Business Report

Homegrown employment-friendly industrial policy is needed in the country to reduce poverty rate, speakers told a seminar in Dhaka yesterday.

"Employment-based industrial policy can remove poverty," said Prof Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir of Development Studies at Dhaka University.

He said there is no direction about employment generation in the country's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).


Shushashoner Jonno Procharavijan or SUPRO (Campaign for Good Governance) organised the seminar on 'Development, Evaluation and Review of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)' at the National Press Club.

Abdul Awal, chairperson of SUPRO, chaired the discussion, which was also attended by rights activist Dr Hamida Hossain and Convener of People's Forum on MDGs Rasheda K Chowdhury.

Coordinator of SUPRO Research Department Syed Aminul Haq presented a keynote paper.

Hamida Hossain stressed the need for women empowerment to reduce poverty.

Rasheda K Chowdhury said Saarc Development Forum could be an outstanding development platform to remove poverty in South Asian region.