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
- Impact of Food Price Rise on School Enrolment and Drop-out in the Poor and Vulnerable Households in Selected Areas of Bangladesh
- S. Raihan 2009
- This study has explored the impact of the rise in food prices on the education of children in the poor and vulnerable households in Bangladesh. Analyses of the survey data suggests that during early 2008 the prices of rice, pulses and...
- Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
- 2012
- Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’...
- Bangladesh: Clustered villages beat the floods
- 2011
- The effects of recurrent flooding – at least once and sometimes twice a year – in poor rural communities living along the Brahmaputra-Jamuna river in Bangladesh are severe and aggravated by climate change. While coping strat...
- The Right to Development and Legal Empowerment of the Poor
- B. A. Andreassen / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2010
- Legal empowerment of the poor—especially through legal protection of their property rights—has recently been advocated as an essential ingredient of a comprehensive package to combat poverty. The formation of a High Level Co...
- Poverty, Equity and Access to Education in Bangladesh
- A. Hossain / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2010
- Bangladesh has made great improvements in the scale and quality of access to education in recent years and gender equality has almost been achieved in primary education. Evidence from CREATE’s nationwide community and school surv...
- An Analysis of the National Budget: Allocation for the Ultra Poor
- F Khatun / Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2011
- This dialogue report provides a view of poverty in Bangladesh. It makes analysis on the budgetary allowance for Social Safety Net Programmes(SSNP). It indicates that in recent year, budget for SSNP has increased to about 15 percent. I...
- Bangladesh Economic Update, December 2010: Education, Health and Poverty: A Reality Check
- Unnayan Onneshan, 2010
- This issue of the Economic Update focuses on health, education and poverty. The Update makes a reality check of the current states of the targets set out in Vision-2021.
- Pallitathya: An Information and Knowledge System for the Poor and Marginalised, Experience from Grassroots in Bangladesh
- Development Research Network, 2012
- This monograph is an attempt to share the experience of an experiment on whether access to information and knowledge has any role to play in addressing poverty. A system of information and knowledge exchange for the poor and marginali...
- ICTs and Access to Information: How to Make it Work for Promoting Human Rights
- A. Raihan / Development Research Network, 2012
- The working paper on ICTs and Access to Information: How to Make it Work for Promoting Human Rights identifies ICTs as a driving force in building an Information Society and creating the values of human rights for the protection of th...
- Macroeconomic Implications of Social Safety Nets in the Context of Bangladesh
- Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2012
- Social safety net is a measure taken by the government in order to prevent the vulnerable section of its population to fall beyond a certain level of poverty. Social safety net programmes (SSNPs) are designed to provide support for th...
- 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
