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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 ...
Multi-Stakeholder initiatives in Bangladesh after Rana Plaza: Global norms and workers’ perspectives
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2019-01)
The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh in April, 2013 resulting in the death and injury of more than 2,000 workers from the country’s export garment industry was one of the worst industrial disasters in ...
Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security: Evidence from Uganda
(Wiley Online Library, 2018-04-23)
We evaluate causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on technology adoption and food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary ...
Effects of food assistance: Evaluation of a food-for-training project in South Sudan
(Practical Action Publishing, 2017)
This chapter is part of the book titled What Works for Africa's Poorest: Poverty Reduction Programs for Extremely Poor People, which contains a unique cross-section of country-specific case studies from across Sub-Saharan ...