Browsing Publications (Brac Institute of Governance and Development) by Issue Date
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Women’s empowerment as a protective factor against intimate partner violence in Bangladesh: a qualitative exploration of the process and limitations of its influence
(© 2016 SAGE Publications Inc., 2017-08)Literature on the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) against women and women’s empowerment is contradictory. Findings from a recent survey in rural Bangladesh suggest that empowerment is becoming protective ... -
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 ... -
গ্রামীণ সমাজে নৈতিক অবক্ষয়ে অর্থনৈতিক ও রাজনৈতিক ক্ষমতা কাঠামো পুনর্বিন্যাসের প্রভাব: একটি বিশ্লেষণ
(বাংলাদেশ উন্নয়ন সমীক্ষা, 2018)গ্রামীণ সমাজে এখন যে ক্রান্তিকাল চলছে সেটি বাংলাদেশের ইতিহাসে নজিরবিহীন, অভূতপূর্ব। বাংলার গ্রামীণ সমাজে অর্থের এতটা অন্তর্মুখী সরবরাহ হাজার বছরের ইতিহাসে এই প্রথম এবং বর্তমান লক্ষণগুলো এরই নানামুখী পার্শ্বপ্রতিক্রিয়া ... -
Moral hazard: Experimental evidence from tenancy contracts
(Oxford Academic, 2018)Agricultural productivity is particularly low in developing countries. Output-sharing rules that make farmers less-than-full residual claimants are seen as a potentially important driver of low agricultural productivity. ... -
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? ... -
Concentration of authority and rent seeking behaviour in bureaucracy: An evidence of ineffective governance in Bangladesh
(IDEAS, 2018)Political leadership and public administration run the government of Bangladesh. Political wing is short tenured under a democratic system, but the public administration is permanent. An administrative process in Bangladesh ... -
Analysis of entrepreneurial intention among students in business schools of Bangladesh
(International Journal of Management and Business Studies, 2018-01)The entrepreneurial intention is a state of mind directing a person’s attention and action towards self-employment as opposed to organizational employment. People with higher entrepreneurial intention have a higher ... -
The contested relationship between paid work and women’s empowerment: Empirical analysis from Bangladesh
(Springer Link, 2018-04-01)The debate about the empowerment potential of women’s access to labour market opportunities is a long-standing one but it has taken on fresh lease of life with the increased feminization of paid work in the context of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Impact and spill-over effects of an asset transfer program on child undernutrition: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Bangladesh
(Elsevier, 2018-10-10)Targeting the Ultra-poor (TUP) is an integrated programme that combines the transfer of income-generating assets and multifaceted training on entrepreneurship, health-nutrition, and social awareness over a two-year period ... -
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 ... -
The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
(PLoS journal, 2019-01-24)Over half a million children die each year of diarrheal illness, although nearly all deaths could be prevented with Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS). The literature on ORS documents both impressive health benefits and persistent ... -
Factors affecting early grade educational attainment: Evidence from South Sudan
(Science Direct, 2019-03)Decades of conflict have left a majority of the South Sudanese population lacking basic educational skills. Using data from newly enrolled first graders in BRAC Non-Formal Schools, this study explores the current level of ... -
Credit and land contracting: A test of the theory of sharecropping
(Wiley Online Library, 2019-03-26)Choice of a share vs. fixed rent land rental contract has figured prominently in the theory of industrial organization. This theory tells us that, while a share contract is inefficient in a first-best world, it may be the ... -
Gender and health social enterprises in Africa: A research agenda
(Springer Link, 2019-06-20)This article was published in the International Journal for Equity in Health. Health social enterprises in Africa working with community health workers (CHWs) are growing rapidly but understudied. In particular, gender ... -
How far does a big push really push? Long-term effects of an asset transfer program on employment trajectories
(University of Chicago Press Journals, 2019-09-09)BRAC launched its Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in 2002 to address ultrapoverty in Bangladesh using an asset transfer approach combined with multifaceted training ... -
What constitutes health care seeking pathway of TB patients: A qualitative study in rural Bangladesh
(Atlantis Press, 2019-12)Given the targeted 4–5% annual reduction of tuberculosis (TB) cure cases to reach the “End TB Strategy” by 2020 milestone globally set by WHO, exploration of TB health seeking behavior is warranted for insightful understanding. ... -
Import of health care services from India: Is it complementary to or substitute of the National Health Service of Bangladesh?
(IOSR Journal of Economics and Finance (IOSR-JEF), 2019-12)Bangladeshi patients visit neighbouring country India for importing medical care. The patients from this country often go to India for those medical interventions what was already available in-home country. Hence, the ...