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Knowledge and behaviour assessment of drivers and community people towards road safety: A baseline study
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2017-01)
Recently, road traffic accidents are considered to be the leading cause of death both in developed and developing countries. In Bangladesh, BRAC has recently initiated a new program on road safety in aiming to increase ...
Impact assessment of Adolescent development program in the selective border regions of Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2010-10)
Border Adolescent Development Program (ADP) was implemented in the border areas of Bangladesh. The main objective of this program was to make the adolescents, their parents, and the communities aware of the social and legal ...
Who trusts others? community and individual determinants of social capital in Bangladesh?
(BRAC University, 2013-07)
This paper presents new evidence on the individual and community specific
determinants of social trust using data from 96 villages in Bangladesh, a country with
high levels of institutional corruption and poor governance. ...
Internal migration as a coping mechanism to natural disaster: Evidence from southern Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2017-04)
The study focuses on the impact of exposure to a natural disaster on migration. Here, we focus on a very specific type of migration where the households send household member(s) outside the community for earning purposes. ...
Improving tax compliance in Bangladesh: a study of Value-Added Tax (VAT)
(BRAC University, 2013-06)
Does paid work provide a pathway to women’s empowerment? empirical findings from Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 2011-09)
The debate about the relationship between paid work and women’s position within the family and society is a long-standing one. Some argue that women’s integration into the market is the key to their empowerment while others ...
Sea level rise and coastal flooding in urban area: the case of Chittagong City Corporation
(BRAC University, 2015-10)
Sea level rise differs among coasts across the globe due to inherent differences in physical settings
and human activities. Projection on relative changes in the sea level is important to understand
the possible impacts ...
Access to water in urban poor settlements: addressing crisis through good governance
(BRAC University, 2013-04)
Walking on two legs: Credit plus grant approach to poverty reduction
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2017)
There is a growing recognition that the ultra-poor are generally not integrated into the current anti-poverty programs. In this paper, we estimate the long-run impacts of a credit plus grant approach, a combination of ...
Coping with uncertainties: Trust dynamics, fluid networks and poverty traps of the urban poor
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2018-04)
Over the recent decades, poverty has increasingly become more urbanized, driven partially by the large volume of rural to urban migration. The urban poor not only have to deal with living in overcrowded slums or other ...