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Sajeda Amin, Ph.D.
Senior Associate
Profile
Sajeda Amin is a senior associate affiliated with the Poverty,
Gender, and Youth program at the Population Council, where she has
worked since 1995. She is interested in a range of issues related to
gender, work, poverty, and family in the developing world. Currently she
is involved in studies in Bangladesh, Egypt, and Vietnam on young
people’s livelihood strategies with a focus on socially and economically
vulnerable populations. These studies are part of a larger program on
transitions to adulthood. Amin combines quantitative and qualitative
techniques in her research.
Amin is a native of Bangladesh. Prior to coming to the Population
Council, she was a research fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of
Development Studies in Dhaka. She received a Ph.D. in demography and
sociology in 1988 and a master's in public policy from the Woodrow
Wilson School in 1984, both from Princeton University.
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