Browsing Publications (Brac Institute of Governance and Development) by Author "BRAC Institute of Governance and Development"
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An adaptive governance and health system response for the COVID-19 emergency
Khan, Mushtaq; Roy, Pallavi; Matin, Imran; Rabbani, Mehnaz; Chowdhury, Rajiv (Science Direct, 2021-01)In the absence of an efficacious and affordable vaccine, the current crisis of COVID-19 is likely to be a long drawn one for many developing countries. In Bangladesh, where the entire population is susceptible and strict ... -
Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security: Evidence from Uganda
Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C; Sulaiman, Munshi (Wiley Online Library, 2018-04-23)We evaluate causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on technology adoption and food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary ... -
Agricultural microcredit for tenant farmers: Evidence from a field experiment in Bangladesh
Hossain, Marup; Malek, Mohammad Abdul; Hossain, Md. Amzad; Reza, Md. Hasib; Ahmed, Md. Shakil (Wiley Online Library, 2018-10-26)We study the impact of an agricultural microcredit program on the livelihoods of small, marginal, and landless tenant farmers in Bangladesh based on a Randomized Control Trial (RCT). Twenty percent of eligible households ... -
Analysing the glass ceiling and sticky floor effects in Bangladesh: Evidence, Eetent and elements
Faruk, Avinno (Springer Link, 2021-08-16)This article was published in SN Business & Economics. With deep-seated gender imbalances prevalent in Bangladesh, it is compelling to understand how those women, who do manage to get employed, are faring in terms of equity. ... -
Analysis of entrepreneurial intention among students in business schools of Bangladesh
Naim, Sayada Jannatun (International Journal of Management and Business Studies, 2018-01)The entrepreneurial intention is a state of mind directing a person’s attention and action towards self-employment as opposed to organizational employment. People with higher entrepreneurial intention have a higher ... -
Assessing the water quality of canals in Dhaka city, Bangladesh
Rahman, Md. Kholilur; Hossain, Md. Shanawez (Scientific and Academic Publishing, 2020-09-15)Environmental degradation related to hazardous pollutants from economic activity became a major concern in many rapidly developing mega cities of the global South. In this study, the level of selected parameters (pH, TDS, ... -
Can ultra-poverty be sustainably improved? Evidence from BRAC in Bangladesh
Raza, Wameq A.; Das, Narayan Chandra; Misha, Farzana A. (Taylor & Francis, 2012-06-19)With more than one-fifth of Bangladesh's population living in extreme poverty, surmounting it still remains a substantial predicament for development practitioners. To combat this issue, BRAC initiated the multifaceted ... -
Capability Development among the Ultra-poor in Bangladesh: A case study
Ahmed, Syed Masud (BMC, 2009-08)Microcredit is advocated as a development tool that has the potential to reduce poverty, empower participants, and improve health. Results of several studies have shown that the extreme poor, or the ultra-poor, often are ... -
Changes in extreme poverty in Bangladesh (2000–2015): Trend, dynamics, and implications for research and interventions
BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (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? ... -
Concentration of authority and rent seeking behaviour in bureaucracy: An evidence of ineffective governance in Bangladesh
Naim, Sayada Jannatun; Hasan, Abu Hena Reza (IDEAS, 2018)Political leadership and public administration run the government of Bangladesh. Political wing is short tenured under a democratic system, but the public administration is permanent. An administrative process in Bangladesh ... -
The contested relationship between paid work and women’s empowerment: Empirical analysis from Bangladesh
Kabeer, Naila; Mahmud, Simeen; Tasneem, Sakiba (Springer Link, 2018-04-01)The debate about the empowerment potential of women’s access to labour market opportunities is a long-standing one but it has taken on fresh lease of life with the increased feminization of paid work in the context of ... -
Cultural norms, economic incentives and women’s labour market behaviour: Empirical insights from Bangladesh
Heintz, James; Kabeer, Naila; Mahmud, Simeen (Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-12)This paper sets out to explore a seeming puzzle in the context of Bangladesh. There is a considerable body of evidence from the country pointing to the positive impact of paid work on women’s position within family and ... -
Demand for tobacco products in Bangladesh
Ahmed, Nasiruddin; Mozumder, Tanvir Ahmed; Hassan, Md. Tariq; Huque, Rumana (BMJ Journals, 2021-04-02)Tobacco tax increase is considered as one of the most effective means to reduce tobacco consumption and its consequences. An increase in taxes, which results in an increase in the price of tobacco products, reduces ... -
Development, welfare and governance: explaining Bangladesh’s ‘development surprise’
Mahmud, Wahiduddin; Mahmud, Simeen (© 2014 Taylor and Francis, 2014-01) -
Do key performance indicators matter on public procurement rules 2008? an empirical study on Local Government Engineering Department, Bangladesh
Rahman, Mahfuzar; Islam, Zohurul; Das, Amrita KumarThis study focuses on the importance of transparency and accountability of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)’s procurement performance based on 45 predetermined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The main ... -
Do poor people’s dreams ever come true? Educational Aspirations and Lived Realities in Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sultan, Maheen; Saeger, Jennifer; Rashid, Sabina F.; Haque, Mohammed Ashraful; Khondaker, Sahida (Springer Link, 2022-02)Bangladesh has made progress in advancing adolescent girls’ education, but there remain substantial evidence gaps around age and gender differences in motivations, retention, and access to education for adolescents living ... -
Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh
Sulaiman, Munshi (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 ... -
Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC`s experience with the ultra-poor program
Hossain, Naomi; Matin, Imran (Taylor and Francis, 2007-11-22)This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, ... -
Estimating catastrophic costs due to Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Anita Sharif; Ahmed, Md Shakil; Ahmed, Sayem; Khanam, Fouzia; Farjana, Fariha; Reza, Saifur; Islam, Shayla; Islam, Akramul; Khan, Jahangir A.M.; Rahman, Mahfuzar (Atlantis Press, 2020-06-07)To eliminate TB from the country by the year 2030, the Bangladesh National Tuberculosis (TB) Program is providing free treatment to the TB patients since 1993. However, the patients are still to make Out-of-their Pocket ... -
Evaluating the long-run impact of an innovative anti-poverty programme: Evidence using household panel data
Asadullah, M Niaz; Ara, Jinnat (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 ...