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Diverging stories of “Missing Women” in South Asia: is son preference weakening in Bangladesh?
ABSTRACT: South Asia is a region characterized by a culture of son preference, severe discrimination against daughters, and excess levels of female mortality, leading to what Amartya Sen called the phenomenon of “missing ...
Measuring 'empowerment' using quantitative household survey data
For poor women paid work is not simply a pathway out of poverty, but has more deeper transformative potential, including both internal transformation (changes in women's personal and political consciousness and agency as ...
Development, welfare and governance: explaining Bangladesh’s ‘development surprise’
(© 2014 Taylor and Francis, 2014-01)
Innovation for universal health coverage in Bangladesh: a call to action
(© 2013 The Lancet, 2013)
A post-Millennium Development Goals agenda for health in Bangladesh should be defined to encourage a second generation of health-system innovations under the clarion call of universal health coverage. This agenda should ...