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Exploring water consumption in Dhaka city using instrumental variables regression approaches
(Springer Link, 2020-09-24)This paper explores water consumption in Dhaka city for better understanding of its usage, and considers the implications of findings from distributive rationale. Using 459 household survey data collected by BRAC Institute ... -
Factors affecting early grade educational attainment: Evidence from South Sudan
(Science Direct, 2019-03)Decades of conflict have left a majority of the South Sudanese population lacking basic educational skills. Using data from newly enrolled first graders in BRAC Non-Formal Schools, this study explores the current level of ... -
Finding out fast about the impact of COVID-19: The need for policy-relevant methodological innovation
(Elsevier, 2021-04)In this viewpoint we explore one joint research initiative in Bangladesh to illustrate how methodological innovations using mobile phone technologies and pre-existing survey databases can generate rapid and insightful data ... -
The ‘fishnet approach’ to livelihood improvement in depressed basins: Evidence from BRAC’s Integrated Development Programme
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-02-27)The multidimensional nature of poverty renders comprehensive development efforts encompassing livelihoods, health, and education as well as communal support, essential for achieving equality in growth. Such an integrated ... -
“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 ... -
From over to optimal irrigation in paddy production: What determines over-irrigation in Bangladesh?
(Springer Link, 2021-04-22)This paper examines the level of optimal irrigation and the determinants of over-irrigation in paddy production since about three-fourth of freshwater withdrawal is used to irrigate paddy plants in Bangladesh. Cobb–Douglas ... -
Gender and health social enterprises in Africa: A research agenda
(Springer Link, 2019-06-20)This article was published in the International Journal for Equity in Health. Health social enterprises in Africa working with community health workers (CHWs) are growing rapidly but understudied. In particular, gender ... -
A good mix against ultra-poverty? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in Bangladesh
(Wiley Online Library, 2021-07-13)Published in the Review of Developmental Economics, the existing evidence from the article shows that programs that provide grants to productive assets along with training to very poor women increase labor supply, earnings, ... -
How far does a big push really push? Long-term effects of an asset transfer program on employment trajectories
(University of Chicago Press Journals, 2019-09-09)BRAC launched its Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in 2002 to address ultrapoverty in Bangladesh using an asset transfer approach combined with multifaceted training ... -
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 ... -
How sustainable are benefits from extension for smallholder farmers? Evidence from a randomized phase-out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
(SSRN, 2017-03-26)Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel ... -
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 ... -
Import of health care services from India: Is it complementary to or substitute of the National Health Service of Bangladesh?
(IOSR Journal of Economics and Finance (IOSR-JEF), 2019-12)Bangladeshi patients visit neighbouring country India for importing medical care. The patients from this country often go to India for those medical interventions what was already available in-home country. Hence, the ... -
Intentions to participate in adolescent training programs: Evidence from Uganda
(Oxford Academic, 2010-05-01)Almost one-third of the population in developing countries is under age 15. Hence improving the effectiveness of policy interventions that target adolescents might be especially important. We analyze the intention to ... -
Intersecting barriers to adolescents’ educational access during COVID-19: Exploring the role of gender, disability and poverty
(Elsevier, 2021-09)This article explores the social determinants of adolescents’ access to education during the COVID-19 pandemic in three diverse urban contexts in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Jordan. It provides novel empirical data from the ... -
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 ... -
Lifting the lockdown: What are the options for low and middle-income countries?
(Social Science Research Network (SSRN), 2020-06-11)To limit the social, economic and psychological damage caused by strict social distancing interventions, many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are seeking to ease restrictions. However, it is unknown what a ‘safe ... -
Long-term strategies to control COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries: An options overview of community-based, non-pharmacological interventions
(Springer Link, 2020-08)In low and middle-income countries (LMICs), strict social distancing measures (e.g., nationwide lockdown) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are unsustainable in the long-term due to knock-on socioeconomic and psychological ... -
Making citizen’s charter effective in public organizations of Bangladesh: Rhetoric or reality? A study of department of immigration and passports
(The University of Bergen, 2011)Citizen’s Charter (CC), as a means of improving public service delivery, has become popular around the world since the 1990s. In order to change administrative rigidity and enhance the responsiveness of public organizations ... -
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 ...