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BRAC Development Institute holds talk about coping with economic crisis

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29 March 2011, Dhaka. BRAC Development Institute (BDI) hosted a talk titled Coping with Economic Crisis: Evidence from Bangladesh and Elsewhere by Dr. Naomi Hossain, Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex, on Sunday, 27 March, at BRAC University.  Dr. Hossain is a political sociologist specialising in the politics of poverty and pro-poor public services.

This presentation summarised findings from qualitative community-level research on the effects of the global food, fuel and financial crises on the lives of poor people in Bangladesh, Kenya, Jamaica, Yemen, Zambia and the UK between 2009 and 2011. It explored the nature of the impacts on local economies and everyday lives, on the coping responses people have adopted in a range of locations and their likely longer term consequences, and on the sources of support poor people have been able to draw on in coping with global economic shocks over which they - and their governments - lack direct control.

The discussion suggested that the poor did not directly correlate their crisis with the global shocks; rather they were always in crisis. The presentation also focused on a lot of positive aspects of Bangladesh which has improved conditions from the past such as better infrastructure and better communication. Political issues contributing to the crisis, policies, the effects of well being and social reproduction during crisis and the responses of people were also discussed.
 

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