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
- Collection of papers examining livelihoods in rural Bangladesh
- K A. Toufique; C Turton / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2002
- This book provides some ideas for development practitioners on how to approach the challenge of the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh. Its origins lie in a study of rural livelihoods commissioned in 2000-2001 by DFID UK This...
- Using dietary diversity as an indicator of household food access
- J. Hoddinott; Y. Yohannes / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
- Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access. It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, K...
- What would be the effect of freer trade in rice on trade flow patterns?
- A. Gulati; S. Narayanan / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This paper explores the important link between rice trade liberalisation and poverty, seeking specifically to respond to two questions: What would be the effect of freer trade in rice on trade flow patterns? How will rice trade libera...
- How do sector wide approaches tackle poverty reduction objectives in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?
- M. Foster; S. Mackintosh-Walker / Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001
- Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper. The purpose of this paper, produced by the Overseas Development Instit...
- Microfinance structures tend to exclude the very poor
- I. Matin / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002
- This paper, published by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), analyses Income Generation for Vulnerable Group Development (IGVGD), a programme initiated by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) which aimed to link f...
- Do MFIs understand the needs of low income households in Bangladesh?
- S. Rutherford / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2002
- This paper aims to describe the money management behaviour of low income households in Bangladeshi households, both rural and urban. The evidence drawn from this study concludes that the poor are active managers of their finances with...
- Safety nets and opportunities in South Asia
- N. Kabeer / Overseas Development Institute, 2002
- This paper aims to review literature on social protection measures in the context of India and Bangladesh. It explores whether some of the lessons learned from responses to vulnerability lend themselves to the notion of 'investment' i...
- Enabling the disability NGOs?: centralisation versus competition in Pakistan and Bangladesh
- M. Miles / Enabling Education Network, 2001
- This article reviews contrasting development patterns of 'Disability NGOs' (i.e. Non Government Organisations concerned with disablement) in Pakistan and Bangladesh, two nations with some political, cultural and socio-economic similar...
- Asian Development Bank cautiously optimistic about coming year
- Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
- The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) features:an assessment of economic trends and prospects for the world and for the developing economies of Asia and the Pacificeconomic profiles, economic management issues, development policy concerns an...
- The green revolution and the growth of the informal sector in Bangladesh
- Kirsten Westergaard; Abul Hossain / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1996
- This paper is the first in a series of papers on a restudy of a village in the Barind tract of northern Bangladesh. At the time of the original study in 1975/76 boro cultivation was negligible, due to lack ofirrigation facilities. The...
- 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
