Browsing Research Reports (2011): Economic Studies, Vol - XXVIII by Title

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    • Economic and social analysis of primary education in Bangladesh: a study of BRAC interventions and mainstream schools 

      Ahmad, Alia; Haque, lftekharul (BRAC, 2011-11)
      Bangladesh has achieved significant progress in enrolment in primary schools including gender parity. Currently, two major problems are dropout before completing primary education and poor quality of education with low ...

    • Lives and livelihoods on the streets of Dhaka city: findings from a population-based exploratory survey 

      Ahmed, Syed Masud; Hossain, Shamim; Khan, Antora Mahmud; Islam, Qazi Shafayetul; Kamruzzaman, Md. (BRAC, 2011-03)
      BRAC has long been working to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social injustice. In recent years, BRAC has extended its activities to include the urban poor population ...

    • Promotion of improved cookstove in rural Bangladesh 

      Arif, Tahmid; Ashraf, Anik; Miller, Grant; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushflq; Akter, Nasima; Ali, ARM Mehrab; Sarkar, MA Quaiyum; Hildemann, Lynn; Dey, Nepal C; Rahman, Mizanur; Dwivedi, Puneet; Wise, Paul (BRAC, 2011-05)
      This study aimed to explore the factors affecting the promotion of improved cookstove (ICS) to replace traditional stove and hence to combat indoor air pollution (lAP). The study was conducted in 58 randomly selected ...

    • Sustaining health: the role of BRAC's community health volunteers in Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Uganda 

      Reichenbach, Laura; Shimul, Shafiun Nahin (BRAC, 2011-09)
      This study fills an important gap in current understanding about a critical aspect of BRAG's health programmes - the financial sustainability of the community health volunteers (commonly referred to as Shasthya Shebikas ...

    • Where NGOs go and do not go? 

      Mallick, Debdulal; Nabin, Munirul H. (BRAC, 2011-05)
      We aim to investigate the role of output market imperfections in constraining the microfinance programme to mitigate credit market imperfections. We develop a model in which output market imperfections increase operating ...