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Bangladesh bank reform : changes and challenges
(BRAC University, 2007-04)
The Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh, has been subject to an ongoing series of reforms. This paper provides an analytical description of the structure of the Bangladesh Bank; it reviews the reforms from their ...
Conversations with employers: Exploring graduate employability in Bangladesh
(2004)
The Bangladeshi graduate labour market is going through rapid and dramatic changes. The increasing importance of the private sector coupled with the intensifying forces of globalization has considerably changed employers’ ...
Customized development interventions for the ultra poor: Preliminary change assessments of health and health-seeking behaviour (CFPR/TUP 2002 to 2004)
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2005-06)
The paper sets out to explore the achievements of civil society in the area of poverty reduction. The focus is mainly on three domains (1) Advocacy; (2) Policy Change, and (3) Service Delivery. Three case studies illustrate ...
Microfinance Engagements of the ‘Graduated’ TUP members
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2006-02)
Despite the slogan of ‘credit for the poorest of the poor’, the poorest have not fully benefited from the microfinance revolution of the late 90s in Bangladesh. To bring these ‘left out’ group into the mainstream microfinance, ...
An early assessment of CFPR II support packages
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2009-12)
Based on the programmatic lessons and research knowledge accumulated from CFPR phase I, CFPR phase II was designed to expand its outreach while incorporating greater diversity in support packages. The support packages of ...
Governance and the media
(BRAC University, 2006-12)
Using both secondary literature on the media and primary data collected via in-depth interviews with a diverse range of government officials, journalists , academics , researchers, law makers, NGO representatives , social ...
A tale of two wards: political participation and the urban poor in Dhaka city
(BRAC University, 2006-12)
This paper is based on research conducted by a research team including Ashrafuzzaman Khan , Omar Faruq Siddiki and Md. Bayazid Hasan of RED , BRAC . The author is grateful to professor Nazrul Islam of Centre for Urban ...
Taking doctors where the ultra poor are: Assessment of the panel doctor
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2007-05)
To facilitate access of ultra-poor households to qualified allopathic care, especially for moderate-to-severe and chronic morbidities, the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) ...
Is the BDP ultra-poor approach working? Survey of some key issues
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2007-05)
Though BRAC’s CFPR/TUP is the specialized program for the ultra-poor, it is observed that a good portion of its microfinance clients are also very poor and require special attention. Moreover, some of the poorer households ...
Social capital and economic well-Being
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2006-11)
Sociologists and economists increasingly consider ‘social capital’ a valuable component in the asset endowment of households, improving productivity and enhancing economic well-being. Like physical and human capital, social ...