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 can population and environmental concerns be integrated to achieve sustainable development?
- S Huq; A. A. Rahman; D. Mallick / Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, 1998
- The paper challenges the simplistic concept of population as an aggregate of consuming units, putting stress increasingly on the natural resources leading to environmental degradation. It argues that the inter-relationship between pop...
- 50% of households can not meet their food requirements from their own sources, nor can they buy the required amount of food.
- R.K. Menon; D. Mallick; A.S. Khan; S.K. Bala; G. Jilani; A.A. Rahman; S. Huq / Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, 2000
- The study's objectives were: Assessing the availability and quantity of foodgrains in the selected markets in three districts Assessing the temporal and locational variation of prices of foodgrains at different...
- How Do Bangladeshi Elites Understand Poverty?
- N. Hossain / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
- The poverty of most Bangladeshis is viewed as an important - but not urgent - issue by Bangladesh's elites. They do not feel threatened by the extent of poverty, or by poor people. Some sections of the elite appear to know little abou...
- What effects have one of the largest providers of micro-credit to the poor in Bangladesh had on poverty?
- H. Zaman / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Presents the main argument that micro-credit contributes to mitigating a number of factors that contribute to vulnerability, whereas the impact on income-poverty is a function of borrowing beyond a certain loan threshold and to a cert...
- 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
