Press coverage, opinion and statements from PPRC’s research work.
New PPRC panel data tracking 3,000 households across Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet finds a structural deterioration in household economic resilience not captured in official poverty headcounts.
The State of the Real Economy report, launched at a PPRC event attended by ministers and development partners, documented a BDT 70 average monthly household surplus.
PPRC survey findings show how households above the poverty line remain exposed to economic shocks.
PPRC research cited in a Guardian analysis of South Asian development: that official poverty figures conceal a large vulnerable non-poor population exposed to economic shocks.
Live panel broadcast from PPRC's State of the Real Economy launch event, featuring Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman on the widening gap between official economic indicators and household-level realities.
PPRC data on households accessing informal support networks cited in New Age's year-end analysis of social protection policy gaps in Bangladesh.
PPRC research data featured in a Reuters feature on Bangladesh's post-pandemic economic recovery and its uneven distribution across income quintiles.
The Daily Star
The poverty line is a political instrument as much as a statistical one. PPRC's tracking of near-poor households reveals why the official figure is insufficient as a policy compass.
The Financial Express
Three consecutive PPRC surveys document a deteriorating food security picture in both urban and rural households despite aggregate GDP growth - a statistical paradox with a clear field explanation.
Dhaka Tribune
Drawing on 20 years of PPRC governance surveys, this piece argues that measurable improvements in institutional trust correlate strongly with social mobility outcomes at the household level.
The Business Standard
PPRC's 13-million-student stipend evaluation provides the evidence base for a redesign: targeting, delivery mechanisms and outcome metrics all need modernisation.
New Age
A synthesis of PPRC's urban research programme finds that rural-to-urban migration has produced new zones of concentrated vulnerability that standard spatial data does not map.
The PPRC today released the State of the Real Economy 2025 Baseline Survey, tracking economic conditions across 3,000 urban and rural households in Bangladesh. The report documents a BDT 70 average monthly household surplus - the thinnest margin recorded in five years of panel tracking.
PPRC calls on the government to review proposed safety net targeting methodology in light of new household panel data showing that current beneficiary lists systematically exclude near-poor households most vulnerable to economic shocks.
PPRC releases a new research brief on digital access and labour market participation among young Bangladeshis aged 18-30, based on the SORE 2025 youth panel.
PPRC submits recommendations to the Ministry of Finance ahead of the 2025-26 budget cycle, drawing on panel survey data across poverty, food security, health financing and education access.
