QSEM examines people’s livelihood strategies and activities, the wider factors that shape those strategies and how the broader social and institutional features of community life affect livelihood choices and outcomes.
The launching event of LIFT, World Bank and EMReF studies: Qualitative Social and Economic Monitoring (QSEM) Series Round Five Report, which was taken, place on the 25th January 2016 at the Summit Parkview Hotel, Yangon. Main author Matthew Zurstrassen and Co-delivered by Min Min Han presented findings and the QSEM report is the fifth in a series looking into social change at village level, and investigating the causes and implications of that change.