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Men’s perspectives on women’s empowerment and intimate partner violence in rural Bangladesh
(© 2017 Routledge, 6/9/2017)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) may increase as women in patriarchal societies become empowered, implicitly or explicitly challenging prevailing gender norms. Prior evidence suggests an inverse U-shaped relationship between ...
How sustainable are the impacts of vocational training?: Evidence from BRAC’s intervention
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2018-06)
In Bangladesh, the school dropout rates at both the primary and secondary level are quite high. Majority of the school dropout children end up unemployed or in low-quality jobs. Hence, training programs can be a potential ...
Changes in extreme poverty in Bangladesh (2000–2015): Trend, dynamics, and implications for research and interventions
(Practical Action Publishing, 2018)
Headcount extreme poverty in Bangladesh has been declining since 2000, but how has the profile and income distribution of the poorest changed and what do these mean for intervention design and directions for innovations? ...
Labor markets and poverty in village Economies
(Oxford Academic, 2017-03-20)
We study how women's choices over labor activities in village economies correlate with poverty and whether enabling the poorest women to take on the activities of their richer counterparts can set them on a sustainable ...
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 ...
A study on Bangladesh Power Development Board on the basis of key performance indicator regarding compliance of PPR 2008 in the procurement activities in terms of procurement processing time.
(BRAC University, 2016-12)
In public sector of Bangladesh , where the organizations are providing services to the people and
are involving in development of various social and economic indicators, Power sector
particularly Bangladesh Power Development ...
How much can asset transfers help the poorest? Evaluating the results of BRAC's ultra-poor programme (2002–2008)
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-02-28)
The impacts of an innovative programme in rural Bangladesh, which has assisted extremely poor households, literally the poorest of the poor, were assessed over a six-year period (2002–2008). The provision of a substantial ...
Violence and the breakdown of the political settlement: An uncertain future for Bangladesh?
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-06-15)
We explore the dynamics of the elite political settlement in Bangladesh after the democratic transition in 1991 and its impact on the elite interactions in the arena of competitive electoral democracy. We trace the history ...
Ultra poor and asset transfer in Urban setting: Evidence from slums in Bangladesh
(Wiley Online Library, 2016-08-09)
We use cross-sectional data to assess the impact of the programme on livelihood where propensity score matching technique has been adopted in analysing the data. Results show that programme participants' self-employment, ...
Impact and spill-over effects of an asset transfer program on child undernutrition: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Bangladesh
(Elsevier, 2018-10-10)
Targeting the Ultra-poor (TUP) is an integrated programme that combines the transfer of income-generating assets and multifaceted training on entrepreneurship, health-nutrition, and social awareness over a two-year period ...