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Women’s empowerment and aggregate shocks: Evidence from an RCT in Ebola-Hit Sierra Leone
(International Growth Centre, 2017-10)
The condition of women in developing countries is characterized by low economic empowerment and limited agency over their body. This paper evaluates a policy intervention aimed at relaxing these constraints for adolescent ...
How can It be a problem if you need them both? Women juggling paid and unpaid care work in Tanzania
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09)
The paper summarizes the findings of a mixed-method research that was carried out in Tanzania as part of the "Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work: Successes, Challenges and Lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment ...
Need assessment of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2017-08)
There has been a continued influx of the Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN) across the border of Bangladesh and Myanmar since 25 August 2017. As a consequence, the large numbers of people (FDMN) have unexpectedly ...
Information frictions in the labor market: Evidence from a field experiment in Uganda
(Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Program, 2017-04)
We study how a lack of information on the skills of workers affects both employers and job seekers. To do so, we design and implement a field experiment in the Ugandan labour market: through the provision of certifications, ...
Information frictions in the labor market: Evidence from a field experiment in Uganda
(Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Program, 2017-04)
We study how a lack of information on the skills of workers affects both employers and job seekers. To do so, we design and implement a field experiment in the Ugandan labour market: through the provision of certifications, ...
Leader selection and service delivery in community groups: Experimental evidence from Uganda
(Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper, 2017-10-31)
In developing countries, NGOs and governments often rely on local community-based groups for the delivery of financial and public services. This paper provides causal evidence of how the design of rules used for group ...
Knowledge and behaviour assessment of drivers and community people towards road safety: A baseline study
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2017-01)
Recently, road traffic accidents are considered to be the leading cause of death both in developed and developing countries. In Bangladesh, BRAC has recently initiated a new program on road safety in aiming to increase ...
Internal migration as a coping mechanism to natural disaster: Evidence from southern Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2017-04)
The study focuses on the impact of exposure to a natural disaster on migration. Here, we focus on a very specific type of migration where the households send household member(s) outside the community for earning purposes. ...
Walking on two legs: Credit plus grant approach to poverty reduction
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2017)
There is a growing recognition that the ultra-poor are generally not integrated into the current anti-poverty programs. In this paper, we estimate the long-run impacts of a credit plus grant approach, a combination of ...