EADI Webinar #20: Generational Transfer of Disadvantages and Extreme Poverty - 2020/04/29
Channel: EADI
Date: 2020-05-12

In this webinar, Owasim Akram sheds light on the process of the generational transfer of disadvantages and how it shapes the extreme poverty trajectory, part of his doctoral research on ageing in extreme poverty in Bangladesh.

Why do the poor stay poor? And, crucially, why are their children likely to be poor and end up poor later in life? Based on a qualitative panel dataset from Bangladesh, the discussion will extend our understanding of how inter and intra-generational bargains generate extreme poverty and implicate an extreme poor future. The discussion brings important policy and programme insights to tackle extreme poverty. It is based on a research article published recently in the EJDR.


Speaker

Owasim Akram is a Doctoral Researcher at the Örebro University, Sweden. His PhD research is exploring the lived experience of the older extreme poor in Bangladesh. He is part of the Newbreed research school, co-funded by the European Commission through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA COFUND). Akram has a long professional career as a development practitioner with experience to work for organizations like Brac, Plan International, Oxfam and European Union Delegation to Bangladesh. His expertise lies in extreme poverty, social protection, social policy, resilience, food insecurity, ageing and gender.


Find out more about the speaker: 
https://www.oru.se/english/employee/owasim_akram

and the Newbreed research school: 
https://www.oru.se/english/about-us/our-focus-areas/successful-ageing/newbreedEUCofund/



For further reading, please see his article in The European Journal of Development Research (2020):
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41287-020-00261-4

The latest EJDR articles can be found on the EADI website:
https://www.eadi.org/ejdr/



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