Browsing Working Papers (Brac Institute of Governance and Development) by Issue Date

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    • Conversations with employers: Exploring graduate employability in Bangladesh 

      Matin, Imran; Ali, Tariq; Wiebe, Paul (2004)
      The Bangladeshi graduate labour market is going through rapid and dramatic changes. The increasing importance of the private sector coupled with the intensifying forces of globalization has considerably changed employers’ ...

    • Health domain of the ultra poor: An exploration 

      Zaman, Shahaduz; Rahman, Hasanur; Edgeworth, Ross (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2004-10)
      There has been an increasing amount of materials surrounding health-seeking behaviour in recent years. However, a relatively small proportion of literature has focused upon health behaviours and types of health services ...

    • Building social capital for the ultra poor: Challenges and achievements 

      Huda, Karishma; Rahman, Sabeel; Guirguis, Catherine (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2005-03)
      BRAC introduced a program designed to meet the special needs of the extreme poor called Challenging the Frontier of Poverty Reduction: Targeting Ultra Poor (TUP) program in 2002. The program consists of economic and health ...

    • Customized development interventions for the ultra poor: Preliminary change assessments of health and health-seeking behaviour (CFPR/TUP 2002 to 2004) 

      Ahmed, Syed Masud; Rana, AKM Masud (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2005-06)
      The paper sets out to explore the achievements of civil society in the area of poverty reduction. The focus is mainly on three domains (1) Advocacy; (2) Policy Change, and (3) Service Delivery. Three case studies illustrate ...

    • Targeting effectiveness of CFPR/TUP in scale-Up environment 

      Sulaiman, Munshi; Matin, Imran (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2006-02)
      Effective targeting is a hallmark of the BRAC’s CFPR/TUP program. Like many other targeted programs, CFPR/TUP combines a number of targeting methods. Launched in 2002, this program has scaled up in 2005. Despite this scaling ...

    • Microfinance Engagements of the ‘Graduated’ TUP members 

      Sulaiman, Munshi; Matin, Imran; Siddiquee, M Shahadat Hossain; Barua, Proloy; Alarakhaia, Safeena; Iyer, Vidya (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2006-02)
      Despite the slogan of ‘credit for the poorest of the poor’, the poorest have not fully benefited from the microfinance revolution of the late 90s in Bangladesh. To bring these ‘left out’ group into the mainstream microfinance, ...

    • Popular expectations of government: Findings from three areas in Bangladesh 

      Ali, Tariq; Hossain, Naomi (Programme for Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh (PRCPB), 2006-02)
      This paper presents findings from research into expectations from the government, based on focus group discussion sessions with over 100 poor and very poor people in rural and urban Bangladesh. The research was designed ...

    • Self-perceived health of ultra poor women: The effect of an inclusive development intervention 

      Prakash, Vivek A.; Rana, AKM Masud (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2006-03)
      In 2002, BRAC launched a targeted and comprehensive development program called Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) aimed at the poorest of the poor, who have often been ...

    • Impact assessment of CFPR/TUP: A descriptive analysis based on 2002-2005 panel data 

      Rabbani, Mehnaz; Prakash, Vivek A.; Sulaiman, Munshi (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2006-07)
      The paper sets out to explore the achievements of civil society in the area of poverty reduction. The focus is mainly on three domains (1) Advocacy, (2) Policy Change, and (3) Service Delivery. Three case studies illustrate ...

    • Targeting the Poorest in Microfinance: Poverty outreach of BDP ultra poor program 

      Barua, Proloy; Sulaiman, Munshi (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2006-08)
      Despite the general consensus that microfinance does not reach the poorest; recent evidence suggests that nearly 15% of microfinance clients in Bangladesh are among the poorest. It is from the realization that even within ...

    • Using change rankings to understand poverty dynamics: Examining the impact of CFPR/TUP from community perspective 

      Sulaiman, Munshi; Matin, Imran (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2006-09)
      Studies of poverty dynamics relying solely on household income-expenditure surveys can yield noisy results, overestimating transient poverty and underestimating persistence of poverty, especially among the poorest. In this ...

    • Social capital and economic well-Being 

      Ameen, Farhad; Sulaiman, Munshi (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2006-11)
      Sociologists and economists increasingly consider ‘social capital’ a valuable component in the asset endowment of households, improving productivity and enhancing economic well-being. Like physical and human capital, social ...

    • Governance and the media 

      Ali, Irum Shehreen (BRAC University, 2006-12)
      Using both secondary literature on the media and primary data collected via in-depth interviews with a diverse range of government officials, journalists , academics , researchers, law makers, NGO representatives , social ...

    • A tale of two wards: political participation and the urban poor in Dhaka city 

      Banks, Nicola (BRAC University, 2006-12)
      This paper is based on research conducted by a research team including Ashrafuzzaman Khan , Omar Faruq Siddiki and Md. Bayazid Hasan of RED , BRAC . The author is grateful to professor Nazrul Islam of Centre for Urban ...

    • Public administration in Bangladesh 

      Jahan, Ferdous (BRAC University, 2006-12)

    • Bangladesh public service commission : perceptions, problems and predictions 

      Jahan, Dr. Ferdous; Shahan, Asif Mohammad; Biswas, Niloy Ranjan (BRAC University, 2007)

    • Bangladesh bank reform : changes and challenges 

      Ahmed, Haydory Akbar (BRAC University, 2007-04)
      The Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh, has been subject to an ongoing series of reforms. This paper provides an analytical description of the structure of the Bangladesh Bank; it reviews the reforms from their ...

    • Taking doctors where the ultra poor are: Assessment of the panel doctor 

      Ahmed, Syed Masud; Hossain, Mohammad Awlad (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2007-05)
      To facilitate access of ultra-poor households to qualified allopathic care, especially for moderate-to-severe and chronic morbidities, the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) ...

    • Is the BDP ultra-poor approach working? Survey of some key issues 

      Barua, Proloy; Sulaiman, Munshi (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2007-05)
      Though BRAC’s CFPR/TUP is the specialized program for the ultra-poor, it is observed that a good portion of its microfinance clients are also very poor and require special attention. Moreover, some of the poorer households ...

    • How sustainable is the gain in food consumption of the CFPR/TUP beneficiaries? 

      Haseen, Farhana; Sulaiman, Munshi (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2007-10)
      Despite some remarkable improvements in nutritional status, malnutrition in Bangladesh is still highly prevalent, especially among the poorest. A number of initiatives are taking place that address the food intake of the ...