Bangladesh and Livelihoods
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- Desk-based review of research on street vendors in Asia
- S.K. Bhowmik / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005
- This study reviews research on street vendors in Asia in order to assess the extent of street vending across x Asian countries. It also collates information on the unionisation of the vendors as well as other organisations, comprising...
- Gender mainstreaming: who benefits from organising community and household resources?
- G. Kelkar; D. Nathan / Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, 2004
- This manual has been developed to support the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction projects in Asia. It focuses on identifying strategic gender initiatives to help enhance women’s agency in the household and commun...
- Successes of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for rural poverty reduction
- Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005
- This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty. The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia...
- Does the engagement of village elites in support of the ultra poor ensure sustainable improvements in their lives?
- K. Huda; S. Rahman; C. Guirguis / Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2005
- BRAC introduced a programme designed to meet the special needs of the extreme poor called, "Challenging the frontier of poverty reduction: targeting ultra poor (TUP)" programme in 2002. The programme consists of economic and health in...
- Voicing demands: enabling the very poor to access power in Bangladesh
- Eldis Document Store, 2004
- This paper from the Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) in Bangladesh argues that the very poor must be empowered to actively participate in political processes if they are to get the reforms and services they need. The paper describes ...
- Contrasting dynamics of household poverty in Rural Bangladesh
- B. Sen / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2004
- This paper gives an analysis of contrasting dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh. In using a livelihoods framework, the author contrasts the fortunes of households that ascend out of poverty, with those who have fallen into poverty...
- Formal institutions must reach out to the poorest
- S.M. Zubair Ali Khan / Proshika, 2003
- This study, from Proshika, seeks to understand the livelihood conditions of the many different extremely poor people living in Bangladesh by analyzing their livelihood constraints and opportunities. It also outlines how the coping str...
- How remittances may have helped reduce poverty in Bangladesh
- R. Afsar / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This paper reviews the relationships between migration and development in Bangladesh, focussing on conditions and entitlements in the labour market and the consequences of migration, including remittances and their effects on poverty ...
- Bangladesh government policy on international migration
- T. Siddiqui / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This paper outlines the history of migration from Bangladesh; identifies the numbers and profile of international migrants; examines labour market conditions and remittance flows; and analyses government policies and programmes for ma...
- Developing best-practices for coordinating the advocacy work of NGOs in Bangladesh
- A. A. Rahman / Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, 2002
- South Asia has emerged as an area of rapid expansion and high level of activities of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs). This is particularly visible in Bangladesh. Their ability to generate policy responses from the state through ...
- 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...
