Browsing by Author "Matin, Imran"
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An adaptive governance and health system response for the COVID-19 emergency
(Science Direct, 2021-01)In the absence of an efficacious and affordable vaccine, the current crisis of COVID-19 is likely to be a long drawn one for many developing countries. In Bangladesh, where the entire population is susceptible and strict ... -
Bangladesh and Covid-19: Reversals and resilience
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-07-27)This article examines two primary data sets to identify the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on different sectors and vulnerable populations in Bangladesh. It attempts to identify how the trends in sectors such as agriculture, ... -
BRAC's microfinance canvass: financial services and strategic linkages
(BRAC, 2002-12)The poor are a diverse group with diverse livelihoods, needs and potential, which change over time due to lifecycle, new opportunities and external shocks. This diverse and dynamic reality of poor peoples' lives forms ... -
Combining methodologies for better targeting of the extreme poor: lessons from BRAC's CFPR/TUP programme (TUP working paper -2)
(BRAC, 2004-08)This paper aims to assess the effectiveness and draw lessons from the targeting strategy used in a new BRAC programme called Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction-Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) that aims ... -
Combining targeting methodologies for better targeting of the extreme poor: some preliminary findings from BRAC's CFPR/TUP programme
(BRAC, 2002-09)Since January 2002, BRAC has started a new program targeted at the extreme poor, called, 'Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor' (CFPR/TUP). This Programme seeks to challenge the frontiers ... -
Conversations with employers: Exploring graduate employability in Bangladesh
(2004)The Bangladeshi graduate labour market is going through rapid and dramatic changes. The increasing importance of the private sector coupled with the intensifying forces of globalization has considerably changed employers’ ... -
Crafting a graduation pathway for the ultra-poor: Lessons and evidence from a BRAC program
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2008-03)The ultra poor are caught in a below-subsistence trap from which it is difficult for them to break free using available resources and mechanisms. Time is not an ally for the ultra poor, as things generally do not get ... -
Dimensions and dynamics of microfinance membership overlap – a micro study from Bangladesh
(Small Enterprise Development, 2002-06)The microfinance market of Bangladesh is getting rapidly crowded. In certain areas there is also quite high incidence of households taking loans from a number of microfinance providers. Why is this happening? How does it ... -
Economic recovery of the new poor created by COVID-19: Evidence from Bangladesh
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-11-06)The COVID-19 shock resulted in a large number of people becoming newly poor in Bangladesh, for whom recovery was slow and difficult. In response, BRAC implemented a nationwide program – credit, business planning support, ... -
Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC's experience with the ultra poor programme (TUP working paper -3)
(BRAC, 2004-09)This paper describes and draws lessons from the experience of engaging village elite in support of the ultra poor through the Gram Shahayak Committees (GSC), as part of BRAC's CFPR/TUP programme. The paper addresses the ... -
Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC`s experience with the ultra-poor program
(Taylor and Francis, 2007-11-22)This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, ... -
Environment and business relations in Urban SMEs- A study on Mirpur Benarashi Palli
(BRAC University, 2007-01)The concept of environmentally responsible business has the intention of promoting conscious involvement by the individual business clusters in developing and maintaining guidelines relating to environmental development ... -
Ethnography of community governance: A case of COVID-19 response of an urban slum in Bangladesh
(Oxford Academic, 2023-04-02)Although COVID-19 cases and deaths in different clusters of Bangladesh were increasing rapidly for most of the year 2020, surprisingly very few cases were reported in the urban slums, identified as the potential hotspots ... -
Finding out fast about the impact of COVID-19: The need for policy-relevant methodological innovation
(Elsevier, 2021-04)In this viewpoint we explore one joint research initiative in Bangladesh to illustrate how methodological innovations using mobile phone technologies and pre-existing survey databases can generate rapid and insightful data ... -
Formation of BRAC: a historical account
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Gram Shahayak Committees: a profile study
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How social norms are increasing the digital divide between genders
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Lifting the lockdown: What are the options for low and middle-income countries?
(Social Science Research Network (SSRN), 2020-06-11)To limit the social, economic and psychological damage caused by strict social distancing interventions, many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are seeking to ease restrictions. However, it is unknown what a ‘safe ... -
Long-term strategies to control COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries: An options overview of community-based, non-pharmacological interventions
(Springer Link, 2020-08)In low and middle-income countries (LMICs), strict social distancing measures (e.g., nationwide lockdown) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are unsustainable in the long-term due to knock-on socioeconomic and psychological ...
