Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Region: Other States, language: English, abstract: Bangladesh as one of the South Asian countries has been striving to develop a comprehensive

education policy since its independence but failed to formulate such policy that could contribute to the

development of the economy. The basic problem of primary and secondary level is poor enrolment

and low retention rate in the school. To combat with this problem government of Bangladesh has been

undertaking myriad policies and programs. Among such policies Female Secondary Stipend Program

(FSSP), Food For Education Program (FFEP) and Free Text Book Distribution Program to the

students of primary and secondary level are some innovative and better contributing policy

interventions in the field of female education in Bangladesh. All these policy interventions are

purported with the pivotal motto of reducing drop rate and increasing enrollment rate in the secondary

education. All these policies are currently in operation except the Food for Education Program which

has transformed into a cash transfer program very recently. Based on the policy problem of reducing

dropout rate of the secondary female students in the school, the above policies on FFEP, FTBDP and

FSSP were chosen as three policy alternatives taking FSSP as status quo with a view to measuring

efficacy of these policies employing the cost effectiveness analysis method apprising their relative

worth in reducing dropout of female students in the secondary level calculating the base year 1994 and

analyzing up to 2015 years data and thereafter to suggest the best policy option for the government of

Bangladesh. Data were generated and gathered from the available literatures on the above-mentioned

alternatives. Primarily FSSP populations were used as baseline population and compare it with

dropout and enrolment rate achieved of all the relevant alternatives and based on the unit cost and

retained student CEA of all the policy alternatives were calculated on excel sheets first and all data

were manually transformed into word format. The findings of the policy analysis unearthed the fact

that in considering CEA of all the policy alternatives it was found that by using $1 it is possible to

achieve a non-drop out sustained of 219 females in case of status quo (FSSP). In case of FTBDP by

using 1$ it will be possible to retain 970 female students. In relation to FFEP it will cost the same $1

to achieve a non-drop out sustained of 14371 females enrolled. [.]