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Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh
(Practical Action Publishing, 2015-06)
Access to education is usually found to be highly correlated with household income and wealth. This correlation often instigates an expectation that increasing income of the poor households will lead to greater human capital ...
Evaluating the long-run impact of an innovative anti-poverty programme: Evidence using household panel data
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2015-08-06)
Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a one-off transfer of livestock ...
Factors influencing the performance of a public private partnership in the digital services sector
(https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/publications/factors-influencing-the-performance-of-a-public-private-partnership-in-the-digital-services-sector/, 2015-11)
The paper empirically investigates the performance of a Public-Private-Partnership initiative to spread public digital services in Bangladesh. The government established digital centres, run by two-member private entrepreneurial ...
An evaluation on Bangladesh agribusiness development project
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2015-10)
The rural economy of Bangladesh is largely occupied by primary agricultural activities resulting in low-productivity of inputs and unemployment of rural labour. Due to limited soil productivity, the possibility of escalating ...
Towards Sustainable Development Goals: Indexing the performance of Bangladesh in achieving the MDGs
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2015-11)
The study evaluated the performance of regions in Bangladesh, both across divisions and districts, in their attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Based on the data from the Multiple Cluster Survey and applying ...
“Flypaper effects” in transfers targeted to women: Evidence from BRAC's “Targeting the Ultra Poor” program in Bangladesh
(Science Direct, 2015-11)
Many development interventions target transfers to women. However, little evidence directly explores the “flypaper effects” of whether women retain control over these transfers once within the household and how reallocation ...