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
- Dhaka: Improving living conditions for the urban poor
- World Bank, 2006
- The demand for workers and services in the growing industries of Dhaka has prompted large scale migration from rural areas for better opportunities. The migrants contribute to the city’s economic development by providing necessar...
- Maternal care practices among the ultra poor households in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative exploratory study
- N. Choudhury / BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2011
- Although many studies have been carried out to learn about maternal care practices in rural areas and urban-slums of Bangladesh, none have focused on ultra poor women. Understanding the context in which women would be willing to accep...
- Participation in Self-help Group Activities and its Impacts: Evidence from South India
- D S kumar / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
- Institution building is now recognized as vital for poverty reduction across the world. This paper focuses on the determinants of participation in Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and its impacts on household welfare. The participation in SHG ...
- Realising the Right to Development in Bangladesh: Progress and Challenges
- S R Osmani / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2010
- By signing and ratifying various human rights instruments, the State of Bangladesh has committed itself to pursuing socio-economic policies in a way that would promote its people’s right to development, understood as integrated ...
- Restoring balance: Bangladesh's rural energy realities
- M. Asaduzzaman / World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2010
- Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest countries. Nearly 80 percent of the nation's 140 million people reside in rural area.Low-lying areas are vulnerable to severe flooding, while other regions are prone to drought, erosion, and so...
- NGOs’ Strategies and the Challenge of Development and Democracy in Bangladesh
- N Kabeer / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- Recent research Bangladesh has come to embody an interesting paradox. On the one hand, it has experienced rising rates of growth, a slow but steady decline in poverty and impressive progress in terms of social development, outperformi...
- 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 (World Bank, 2008). Evidence from CREATE’s nationwide commun...
- Agriculture biodiversity and food security: two sides of a coin
- Unnayan Onneshan, 2010
- Biodiversity underpins the agriculture productivity. Recent worldwide food crisis has raised the issue of food security to an urgent basis. Many are arguing that worldwide economic meltdown might cause the crisis. other finds a causal...
- Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study of the United States of America
- Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2012
- This paper presents the problems of poverty in the U.S. from the perspective of the notion of “extreme poverty,” regarded as a violation of human rights. By choosing the United States as the case study, this paper seeks to...
- Supporting civic activism among chronically poor women
- R. Amosu / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
- This study was undertaken with the support of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, the Overseas Development Institute, and the George Washington University. Through in-country and desk research, the research team assessed the extent t...
- 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
