Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on school enrolement. A case study of secondary education in Ba

Document from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: 75/100, The Australian National University (Crawford School of Public Policy), course: Research Project: POGO-8035, language: English, abstract: This study examines the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) on school enrolment of secondary education in Bangladesh. By analysing the existing literature the study makes an analytical framework which gives the premises for the understanding that how CCT works on student enrolment. After discussing the demand and supply side initiatives of CCT this paper examine the data of enrolment rate from 1973 to 2012.The data showed that CCT plays major role in increasing the girl's enrolment in secondary education of Bangladesh. However, the CCT has very little effects on boy's enrolment. The existing litterateur analysis showed that the reason behind the less impact of boys' enrolment is socio economic and inbuilt error of the existing programs.