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Nutrition promotion and collective vegetable gardening by adolescent girls: Feasibility assessment from a pilot in Afghanistan
(AESS, 2018-10-04)
This study aimed to assess the feasibility of collective vegetable gardening
into an existing development programme for adolescent girls as a means of
improving awareness about health and nutrition and increasing ...
Livelihood, cash Transfer, and graduation approaches: How do they compare in terms of cost, impact, and targeting?
(International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2018-10)
Social protection initiatives in Africa increasingly aim to institutionalize systems that guarantee assistance for the poor and protect the vulnerable against livelihood risks. Through direct and indirect income effects, ...
Cultural norms, economic incentives and women’s labour market behaviour: Empirical insights from Bangladesh
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-12)
This paper sets out to explore a seeming puzzle in the context of Bangladesh. There is a considerable body of evidence from the country pointing to the positive impact of paid work on women’s position within family and ...
Enrolling girls without learning: Evidence from public schools in Afghanistan
(Wiley Online Library, 2017-11-22)
While more girls are now attending school in Afghanistan than prior to 2010, there is a lack of evidence on how school attendance is helping their cognitive development. We use data from a large sample of all-girls ...
How sustainable are benefits from extension for smallholder farmers? Evidence from a randomized phase-out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
(SSRN, 2017-03-26)
Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel ...
Men’s perspectives on women’s empowerment and intimate partner violence in rural Bangladesh
(© 2017 Routledge, 6/9/2017)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) may increase as women in patriarchal societies become empowered, implicitly or explicitly challenging prevailing gender norms. Prior evidence suggests an inverse U-shaped relationship between ...
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? ...
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 ...
Evaluation of land suitability for urban land‐use planning: Case study Dhaka city
(Wiley Online Library, 2015-03-16)
The aim of this research is evaluation of land suitability for urban land-use planning. Four factors and fourteen criteria were selected for suitability analysis and land-use planning. Factors and criteria were defined ...
The citizen’s charter and public service delivery in Bangladesh
(Routledge, 2016)
The Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh provides that “all powers in the Republic belong to the people . . . every person in the service of the Republic has a duty to strive at all times to serve the people” ...