Bangladesh and Poverty
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- The BLDS poverty collection
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- Search for the latest poverty-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- The Life Cycle of a Gram Daridro Bimochon Committee
- M Rafi / BRAC Education Programme, 2013
- Besides other reasons, to meet the commitments towards Millennium Development Goals BRAC introduced the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting Ultra Poor programme. To facilitate the programme, thus bring positive ch...
- Are Bangladesh’s Recent Gains in Poverty Reduction Different from the Past?
- Z Hassan 2012
- The poor in Bangladesh are more likely to belong to households with a larger number of dependents, lower education, engaged in daily wage labor, own little land and less likely to receive remittances. This poverty profile for 2005 is ...
- Spatial Dimensions of Income Inequality and Poverty in Bangladesh: An Analysis of the 2005 and 2010 Household Income and Expenditure Survey Data
- K Zaman 2012
- Using 2005 and 2010 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES)data, the paper examines income inequality and poverty in Bangladesh with focus on their spatial dimensions. As disparity among administrative divisions is small, such ...
- Addressing Extreme Poverty in a Sustainable Manner: Evidence from CFPR Programme
- N Das / BRAC Education Programme, 2010
- BRAC initiated an innovative programme known as Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) in 2002 to address the extreme poverty in Bangladesh. Impact assessment studies on the first phase of CFPR (2002-06) have shown that...
- Asset Transfer Programme for the Ultra Poor: A Randomized Control Trial Evaluation
- O Bandiera / BRAC Education Programme, 2011
- The world's poorest people lack both capital and skills and are trapped in low return occupations.Whether their economic lives can be transformed by programmes which attempt to tackle both constraints by providing assets and training ...
- Convergence in Per Capita Income across Regions in Bangladesh
- M.H. Rahman / ingentaJournals [BIDS Journals Online], 2009
- This paper examines per capita income convergence across six divisions – Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet, and Barisal − in Bangladesh using annual data covering 1977-2000. The methodolog...
- Inequality in Rural Bangladesh in the 2000s: Trends and Causes
- S Osmani 2011
- This paper has investigated the patterns of inequality that have emerged in rural Bangladesh in the decade of the 2000s. Two findings stand out clearly– distribution of income has become more unequal over the decade, and, somewha...
- Mis-targeting and Mis-using Microcredit in Livestock Development Projects in Bangladesh
- K Iqbal 2011
- This note argues that tied targeted microcredit for raising livestock is not likely to be a successful tool for livestock development if borrowers do not have comparative advantage in livestock rearing and lenders have little incentiv...
- Report on fieldwork from around the world documenting loss and damage due to climate change
- K. Warner; K. van der Geest; S. Kreft / United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
- This study presents empirical findings from fieldwork around the world examining loss and damage caused by global warming. The report begins by defining and contextualising the emerging discourse on assessing, quantifying and reacting...
- A Socio-economic Study of Informal Sector Workers of Dhaka City
- M Alam / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012
- Informal sector is a very important area of the economy for any developing country; it is a growing occupational sector for the less skilled people, living both in urban and rural areas. Considerable amount of employment are ensured b...
- 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...
- Equity and Justice Working Group (EJWG)
- Activists advocating policy dialogue and change in attitudes in Bangladesh
- Programme for Research on Chronic Poverty, Bangladesh
- Understanding policy to combat structural poverty and vulnerability
