A STUDY ON SOCIOECONOMIC GRADUATION PROGRAM FOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS IN SHWE PYI THAR

In recent years, people living in Yangon have witnessed a steep rise in living costs, especially for housing, pushing poor populations from city centres to peripheral areas with limited access to basic services. This study is aims to analyse the socioeconomic graduation program in Shwe Pyi Thar Township, Yangon where people of different social back grounds living in peripheral area to improve quality of life, mostly through increasing income and improving resilience and the capacity to deal with shocks, reducing vulnerability, essentially through consolidating assets. The data analysis was used descripted descriptive method. Primary survey data collected from a total of 502 survey households in ward 10 and 14. The study found that poor households had increased income, decreased debt, increase household asset and property, increased voluntary saving with increased financial literacy knowledge and women were often involved in making decisions related to household debt and saving activities