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Agricultural microcredit for tenant farmers: Evidence from a field experiment in Bangladesh
(Wiley Online Library, 2018-10-26)
We study the impact of an agricultural microcredit program on the livelihoods of small, marginal, and landless tenant farmers in Bangladesh based on a Randomized Control Trial (RCT). Twenty percent of eligible households ...
e-procurement and transparency in public sector : a case of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), Dhamoirhat upazila,Naogaon.
(BRAC Univeristy, 2018-02)
Procurement is the acquisition of goods, services or works from an external sources and
performance of services by any contractual agreement. Public procurement means procurement
using public funds. Public sector ...
Implementing e-GP in Bangladesh: a perspective of works procurement in LGED
(BRAC University, 2018-08)
E-procurement has drawn great attention and been adopted by increasing number of public
organizations. However, simply having an e-procurement system in place does not guarantee
that it will bring about benefits in term ...
Women’s decision making from men’s view: a perception analysis from the city of Dhaka
(Brac University, 2018-12)
The ability of women to make decisions that affect the personal circumstances of their own lives is an essential aspect of empowerment and serves as an important contributor to women’s overall welfare. There has been ...
Changes in extreme poverty in Bangladesh (2000–2015): Trend, dynamics, and implications for research and interventions
(Practical Action Publishing, 2018)
Headcount extreme poverty in Bangladesh has been declining since 2000, but how has the profile and income distribution of the poorest changed and what do these mean for intervention design and directions for innovations? ...
How sustainable are the impacts of vocational training?: Evidence from BRAC’s intervention
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2018-06)
In Bangladesh, the school dropout rates at both the primary and secondary level are quite high. Majority of the school dropout children end up unemployed or in low-quality jobs. Hence, training programs can be a potential ...
Govt. primary school versus BRAC primary school : a comparative study
(BRAC Univeristy, 2018-01)
This study deals with the status of quality education in Govt. and Brac primary schools in Bangladesh. Along with an examination of education policy of Bangladesh, it is an attempt to get knowledge of quality education ...
Performance of microcredit towards empowerment of women – a case study of saving and credit cooperatives in bardiya district of Nepal
(Brac University, 2018-10)
Microcredit has often been seen as an important means of empowering women. A study was
conducted in the Mid-Western Development Region of Nepal to explore impact of microcredits
in women’s empowerment. A total of 32 women ...
Challenges of tourism development in Inlay Lake, Myanmar.
(BRAC University, 2018-03)
Tourism in the Inlay Lake Region celebrates the diverse, vibrant and beautiful cultural
heritage landscape and peoples that make this such a unique place to visit. Where possible
tourism should be low impact, targeting ...
A review of public sector e-Procurement system of Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2018-12)
This study aims to review public sector e-Procurement that is in place in Bangladesh at
present. In order to assess public sector e-Procurement system of Bangladesh this study
also compares public sector electronic ...