Bangladesh and Livelihoods
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- Social Safety Net Programmes in Bangladesh: A Review
- Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2011
- The major social safety net programmes (SSNPs) in Bangladesh can be divided under four broad categories: (i) employment generation programmes; (ii) programmes to cope with natural disasters and other shocks; (iii) incentives provided ...
- Effects of Riverbank Erosion on Livelihood
- Unnayan Onneshan, 2012
- Riverbank erosion is one of the most unpredictable and critical type of disasters that takes into account the quantity of rainfall, soil structure, river morphology, topography of river and adjacent areas, and floods. Such calamity to...
- Improving diet quality and micronutrient nutrition: homestead food production in Bangladesh
- L. Iannotti; K. Cunningham; M. Ruel / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- A critical yet often overlooked component of food security is diet quality. Even households who have access to sufficient amounts of food and calories may still lack essential micronutrients, increasing their risk for both short- and ...
- Voices of the poor should be included in budgetary processes
- F. Khatun; T.I. Khan; A. Nabi / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
- This dialogue report provides a view of poverty in Bangladesh. The country has been performing well from the growth perspective in the recent past as GDP growth rate has been on average of 5.8% per year during 2000-2010. T...
- Does the development policy of Bangladesh actually conform to the demands of the right to development?
- S.R. Osmani / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
- By signing and ratifying various human rights instruments, the State of Bangladesh has committed itself to pursuing socio-economic policies in a way that would promote its people’s right to development, understood as integrated ...
- Looking at the needs of refugees and other displaced people and the lessons learned
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Over the past 50 years, forced displacement has been a major obstacle to development and the fight against poverty. Despite the efforts of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and others to find ‘durable sol...
- In less than a generation, the majority of poor people will have access to mobile phones and services
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- ‘Explosive’ is the only way to describe mobile phone growth. Half the world’s 6.5 billion people now use a mobile (up from two billion just two years ago). There are more than twice as many mobile owners in dev...
- How Adaptive Social Protection can benefit the agricultural sector in south Asia
- A. Arnall; K. Oswald; M. Davies; T. Mitchell; C. Coirolo / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk r...
- What can sustainable livelihoods approaches and pro-poor market approaches learn from each other?
- S. Johnson (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009
- The third Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) seminar was held at the University of Bath, in the UK, in July 2009. Hosted by the Livelihoods Network, the seminar series discusses the continued relevance of sustainable livelihoods approaches ...
- Examining the risks of moving in and out of poverty in Bangladesh
- Azam S.; Imai K. / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2009
- Poverty reduction will continue to be a principal objective of development policy. Despite the wealth of information on poverty in Bangladesh, rigorous quantitative studies to address the risks and poverty are scarce. This paper attem...
- Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)
- The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people. The CLP is jointly funded by UKaid through the Department for International Development and the Australian Government (AusAID), sponsored by the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division of the Government of...
- Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI)
- Bangladesh Enterprise Institute is a non-profit, non-political research centre. Established in October 2000, the Institute has established for itself a reputation for excellence in its research and advocacy work focusing on the growth of private enterprise in Bangladesh. The Institute promotes issues of importance to the private sector and seeks to initiate essential measures and influence policy...
