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
- An Analysis of the National Budget: Allocation for the Ultra Poor
- 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...
- Rethinking Food Security Strategy: Self-sufficiency or Self-reliance
- Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
- This Policy Brief discusses whether Bangladesh should continue to pursue a national food security strategy based on self-reliance or return to its earlier policy of food self-sufficiency through domestic production.
- Rethinking Food Security Strategy: Self-sufficiency or Self-reliance
- 2009
- This Policy Brief discusses whether Bangladesh should continue to pursue a national food security strategy based on self-reliance or return to its earlier policy of food self-sufficiency through domestic production.
- Implications for Human Development - Impacts of Food Price Volatility on Nutrition and Schooling
- Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
- The paper highlights the impacts of the 2007/08 food price inflation on nutrition and on school attendance. It draws on the results of studies commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Even at times of av...
- Working together for better safety nets
- 2012
- Safety net programmes have proved to be a useful instrument to tackle hunger and malnutrition in Bangladesh. However, insufficient co-ordination between the manifold initiatives causes inefficiencies and limits coverage of poor househ...
- Apartment Housing in High Class Residential Areas of Dhaka City: A Case Study of Dhanmondi, Gulshan and Baridhara
- M.A. Quasem 2004
- Cities are dynamic in nature. They develop as a result of interaction between different social, political, economical and technological forces. This paper is about multi-storey apartment buildings in high-class residential areas of Dh...
- Seasonal and extreme poverty in Bangladesh : evaluating an ultra-poor microfinance project
- World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2010
- Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a program known as PRIME was introduced in 2006 to address both concerns. Unlike regular microfinance, PRIME introduces a...
- Living on a Spike
- N Hossain / Oxfam, 2011
- The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 20...
- Sparing lives: better reproductive health for poor women
- World Bank, 2009
- The report highlights that the region faces enormous challenges in addressing inequalities in reproductive health of poor women, and focuses on the risks they face. This phenomenon perpetuates an inter-generational cycle of poverty. N...
- Bangladesh: strategy for sustained growth
- World Bank, 2007
- The premise of the report is that Bangladesh could join the ranks of middle-income countries (MICs) within a decade or some time soon after. It has the necessary assets: much-improved economic fundamentals; success in implementing man...
- 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
