Browsing Publications (Brac Institute of Governance and Development) by Author "Sulaiman, Munshi"
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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 ... -
Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh
(Practical Action Publishing, 2015-06)Access to education is usually found to be highly correlated with household income and wealth. This correlation often instigates an expectation that increasing income of the poor households will lead to greater human capital ... -
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 ... -
Intentions to participate in adolescent training programs: Evidence from Uganda
(Oxford Academic, 2010-05-01)Almost one-third of the population in developing countries is under age 15. Hence improving the effectiveness of policy interventions that target adolescents might be especially important. We analyze the intention to ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Paradigm shift or business as usual? workers’ views on multi-stakeholder initiatives in Bangladesh
(Wiley Online Library, 2020-02-24)The scale of the tragedy at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,000 garment factory workers died when the building collapsed in April 2013, galvanized a range of stakeholders to take action to prevent future ... -
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 ... -
A stepping stone approach to understanding harmful norms
(Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2021-02)Harmful social norms often persist despite legal and economic sanctions against them. Can the abandonment of a harmful norm be facilitated by the presence of a 'mildly harmful' alternative that may act as a stepping stone ...
