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
- How does green revolution technology impact on poverty reduction in Bangladesh?
- K. Hallman; D. Lewis; S. Begum / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
- This study examines the poverty reduction implications of the introduction of three different agricultural technologies by government and NGOs in three rural sites across Bangladesh. The technologies looked at are: new vegetabl...
- Conditioned transfer for education (CTE) programs are foreign aid success story
- S. Morley; D. Coady / Center for Global Development, USA, 2003
- A joint project of the Center for Global Development and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), this book compiles published and unpublished material on existing conditioned transfer for education (CTE) programs and...
- Appraisal of the project proposal Tanguar Haor wetland biodiversity, Bangladesh
- K. Bevanger; A. Datta; A. Eid; M. Shirin / Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2001
- An appraisal of the project proposal Tanguar Haor Wetland Biodiversity to confirm whether the project can successfully and practically apply and achieve its aims. Tanguar Haor Wetland, north east Bangladesh, was declared an eco...
- EU policy incoherence reduces aid effectiveness
- ActionAid International, 2003
- What is the impact of a range of EU policies on poor people in Bangladesh, Brazil and Kenya? This paper examines key policy areas (including trade, aid, agricultural policies and support to Foreign Direct Investment) to assess the coh...
- How do agricultural technologies influence poverty?
- R. Meinzen-Dick; M. Adato; L. Haddad; P. Hazell / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
- This paper examines how agricultural technologies influence and are influenced by the diverse livelihood strategies, vulnerability context, relations of gender and power, and other conditions of the poor. It reports findings o...
- Experience of Poverty Reduction Srategies (PRSs) in Asia
- PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003
- This briefing note summarises some of the key issues underlying the Poverty Reduction Strategy process within some countries in Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam). Among the main conclusions...
- Policy or poverty? Links between child labour and educational failure
- Naila Kabeer / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- How can we understand the correlation between the incidence of child labour and poor school attendance and educational achievement? In South Asia, is it poverty that drives children into the workplace or is it policy failure which kee...
- Livelihood opportunities and limitations in the slums of Bangladesh
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
- This profile reports on surveys conducted by IFPRI and CARE in an examination of urban poverty in different settings in Bangladesh. It examines livelihood opportunities and limitations, the impact of poverty on women and children, cop...
- Broadening poverty research in Bangladesh to include secondary cities
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
- How can the rising numbers of people living in extreme poverty in the slums of towns and cities in Bangladesh they be raised from poverty? How can they be employed, housed, fed, educated and cared for? This bulletin presents da...
- How women’s participation in micro-credit programs in Bangladesh increases empowerment
- J. Cartwright; S. R. Khandker; M. M. Pitt / World Bank, 2003
- This paper examines the effects of men’s and women’s participation in group-based micro-credit programs on a large set of qualitative responses to questions that characterise women’s autonomy and gender relations within...
- 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
