On March 10th this year, Ayesha Akter walked from her home in Dhaka’s Korail slum to a nearby playground. Pregnant with her third child, she had come to watch the government inaugurate its newest welfare scheme, the Family Card, with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman in attendance. She stood at the edge of the crowd, an onlooker.In the weeks that preceded, project workers had moved through Korail, gathering household details door to door. Many resid…
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