Bangladesh, Nov. 8 -- It is nothing surprising that more than 40 per cent of the country's 80 million old-age people do not receive any kind of pension benefit.
In fact, relevant statistics, presented at a seminar organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in Dhaka last Wednesday, seemingly, do not represent the actual situation on the ground.
The number of pension benefit receivers will be far less. Moreover, the financial benefits that the elderly people get is not pension, in all practical terms, but a sort of old-age support made available by the government to distressed section of the population. The benefit is distributed in rural areas under the state safety net programmes.
The truth is that the private sector employers do ...