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Can ultra-poverty be sustainably improved? Evidence from BRAC in Bangladesh
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-06-19)
With more than one-fifth of Bangladesh's population living in extreme poverty, surmounting it still remains a substantial predicament for development practitioners. To combat this issue, BRAC initiated the multifaceted ...
Capability Development among the Ultra-poor in Bangladesh: A case study
(BMC, 2009-08)
Microcredit is advocated as a development tool that has the potential to reduce poverty, empower participants, and improve health. Results of several studies have shown that the extreme poor, or the ultra-poor, often are ...
Resource Booklet CFPR-II Evaluation
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 2008-06)
Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) is one of the relatively recent additions to BRAC’s long experience with development approaches. This experimental program was launched in 2002 with a complete package ...
How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The Five Cs of community-level development and BRAC’s ultra-poor program
(Brooks World Poverty Institute, 2010-10)
We develop a framework for assessing community-level development programs, building upon five related elements that are centrally important: confidence, cohesion, capacity, connections and cash (the five ‘Cs’). We use this ...
Exclusion and poverty: An analytical approach for understanding exclusion and assessing programmes targeting the very poor in Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2008-04)
Exclusion is a term that comes up often in association with poverty, social
welfare and social injustice. Development interventions are designed with some
notion of benefiting or including the excluded. This paper analyses ...
Evaluating the long-run impact of an innovative anti-poverty programme: Evidence using household panel data
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2015-08-06)
Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a one-off transfer of livestock ...
Livelihood of slum-dwellers: Findings from baseline survey of ultra-poor program
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2016-07)
The groundbreaking program of BRAC titled “Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction-Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP)” commenced in 2002 with the intention to meet the challenge to reach and help the ultra-poor. ...
Labor markets and poverty in village Economies
(Oxford Academic, 2017-03-20)
We study how women's choices over labor activities in village economies correlate with poverty and whether enabling the poorest women to take on the activities of their richer counterparts can set them on a sustainable ...
Coping with uncertainties: Trust dynamics, fluid networks and poverty traps of the urban poor
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2018-04)
Over the recent decades, poverty has increasingly become more urbanized, driven partially by the large volume of rural to urban migration. The urban poor not only have to deal with living in overcrowded slums or other ...
Asset transfer programme for the ultra poor: A randomized control trial evaluation
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2012-12)
The world’s poorest people lack both capital and skills and are trapped in low return occupations. However, whether their economic lives can be transformed by programs which attempt to tackle both constraints by providing ...