Publications (Brac Institute of Governance and Development): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
The ‘fishnet approach’ to livelihood improvement in depressed basins: Evidence from BRAC’s Integrated Development Programme
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-02-27)The multidimensional nature of poverty renders comprehensive development efforts encompassing livelihoods, health, and education as well as communal support, essential for achieving equality in growth. Such an integrated ... -
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 ... -
Lifting the lockdown: What are the options for low and middle-income countries?
(Social Science Research Network (SSRN), 2020-06-11)To limit the social, economic and psychological damage caused by strict social distancing interventions, many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are seeking to ease restrictions. However, it is unknown what a ‘safe ... -
Estimating catastrophic costs due to Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Bangladesh
(Atlantis Press, 2020-06-07)To eliminate TB from the country by the year 2030, the Bangladesh National Tuberculosis (TB) Program is providing free treatment to the TB patients since 1993. However, the patients are still to make Out-of-their Pocket ... -
Long-term strategies to control COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries: An options overview of community-based, non-pharmacological interventions
(Springer Link, 2020-08)In low and middle-income countries (LMICs), strict social distancing measures (e.g., nationwide lockdown) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are unsustainable in the long-term due to knock-on socioeconomic and psychological ... -
Assessing the water quality of canals in Dhaka city, Bangladesh
(Scientific and Academic Publishing, 2020-09-15)Environmental degradation related to hazardous pollutants from economic activity became a major concern in many rapidly developing mega cities of the global South. In this study, the level of selected parameters (pH, TDS, ... -
Exploring water consumption in Dhaka city using instrumental variables regression approaches
(Springer Link, 2020-09-24)This paper explores water consumption in Dhaka city for better understanding of its usage, and considers the implications of findings from distributive rationale. Using 459 household survey data collected by BRAC Institute ... -
An adaptive governance and health system response for the COVID-19 emergency
(Science Direct, 2021-01)In the absence of an efficacious and affordable vaccine, the current crisis of COVID-19 is likely to be a long drawn one for many developing countries. In Bangladesh, where the entire population is susceptible and strict ...