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How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The Five Cs of community-level development and BRAC’s ultra-poor program
(Brooks World Poverty Institute, 2010-10)
We develop a framework for assessing community-level development programs, building upon five related elements that are centrally important: confidence, cohesion, capacity, connections and cash (the five ‘Cs’). We use this ...
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 ...
Understanding the First and Second Digital Divides in Rural Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2020-12)
Differences in individuals’ access to internet infrastructure refer to the first-level digital divide, whereas differences in an individual’s online skills and internet usage refer to the second-level digital divide. ...
Exclusion and poverty: An analytical approach for understanding exclusion and assessing programmes targeting the very poor in Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2008-04)
Exclusion is a term that comes up often in association with poverty, social
welfare and social injustice. Development interventions are designed with some
notion of benefiting or including the excluded. This paper analyses ...
Internationalization of the Renminbi: theory and evidence
(BRAC University, 2012-08)
We investigate the possibility of the Chinese currency, Renminbi (RMB), becoming a dominant
international currency. Using a qualitative analysis of the volume of trade and financial transactions,
especially cross-border ...
Group norms and the Brac village organization—enhancing social capital baseline
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2012-04)
As an NGO, BRAC adopts a holistic development approach centred on the Village Organization (VO), a group of female microfinance clients. In order to upgrade the VO integrity and norms, BRAC’s Social Development (SD) Program ...
An assessment of road safety knowledge of drivers and community: An impact evaluation of the project intervention
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2015-12)
The endline study was undertaken by the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC. Highlighting the aim of BRAC's road safety program of achieving zero fatal road accidents, the existing community-centric knowledge was ...
The political economy of urban space: land and real estate in Dhaka City
(BRAC University, 2012-07)
The savings and growth nexus in Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2021-09)
The paper investigates the causal relationship between Bangladesh’s gross domestic savings (GDS) and gross domestic product (GDP). Using yearly time series data from 1980 to 2018, we employ two short-run and one long-run ...
Bangladesh bank reform : changes and challenges
(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 ...