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  The poverty impact of rural roads: evidence from Bangladesh

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  Improved roads and infrastructure can create opportunities for economic growth and poverty reduction through a range of mechanisms. Numerous studies have documented the varied benefits of road-related infrastructural development in the areas of market access, rural enterprise, labour demands, health services and educational opportunities.
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  Principles into practice: learning from innovative rights based programming

  CARE International, 2005

  Based on 16 case studies carried out by CARE International the report argues for the use of rights-based approaches (RBAs) when addressing issues of social injustice and poverty.The report lists 5 challenges that arise when applying RBAs: obtaining the initial support: support from government authorities and counterparts is needed to create the operating space, since many of the
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  The cultural construction of wellbeing: seeking healing in Bangladesh

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006

  The promotion of wellbeing as the ultimate goal of social, health and development policy is now well established amongst academics and policymakers alike. The relevance of culture is increasingly recognised in writings on both wellbeing and development. This paper aims to question the dominant ways that culture has figured in discussions of wellbeing and development.
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  Conflicts Over Credit: Re-Evaluating the Empowerment Potential of Loans to Women in Rural Bangladesh

  Elsevier, 2000

  Microcredit programmes for the poor have come to occupy a central place in poverty-oriented strategies in Bangladesh. Yet evaluations of the empowerment potential of credit programmes for rural women in Bangladesh have arrived at conflicting conclusions. This paper draws on the findings of a credit programme in Bangladesh, in which the impact of loans was evaluated by women loanees themselves.
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  Who Takes the Credit? Gender, Power and Control Over Loan Use in Rural Bangladesh

  Elsevier, 1996

  Special credit institutions in Bangladesh have dramatically increased the credit available to poor rural women since the mid-1980s. Though this is intended to contribute to women's empowerment, few evaluations of loan use investigate whether women actually control this credit.
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  Being prepared for unexpected events can help prevent poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Economic shocks and other unexpected events, such as family illness or crop failure, can cause poor households to fall deeper into poverty. To cope with such crises, households may cut down on non-food consumption in order to maintain their usual levels of food intake.
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  Addressing poverty through local economic and enterprise development: a review of conceptual approaches and practice

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2005

  Local economic development (LED) involves local people working together to achieve sustainable economic growth that brings economic benefits and quality of life improvements for all in the community. This paper reviews some of the current literature on LED with particular attention paid to rural areas and small and intermediate urban centres.The authors examine the dominant strategies in LED.
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  Making infrastructure work for the poor

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  Infrastructure is a general concept that encompasses many of the obvious, physical features of civilisation. But more relevant to the goal of poverty reduction are infrastructure services, which include the social and economic benefits associated with infrastructure per se.
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  Partnerships will improve girls’ education

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The Millennium Development Goal to achieve gender equality in education can only be met by concerted action. Stronger partnerships are needed to increase opportunities for the millions of girls and women excluded from education, but what kind?
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  WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against Women

  World Health Organization, 2005

  Violence against women by their male partners is common, wide-spread and far-reaching in its impact. For too long hidden behind closed doors and not mentioned in public discussions, such violence can no longer be denied as part of everyday life for millions of women.

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