Browsing Research Reports (2011): Economic Studies, Vol - XXVIII by Title

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    • Promotion of improved cookstove in rural Bangladesh 

      Arif, Tahmid; Ashraf, Anik; Miller, Grant; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushflq; Akter, Nasima; Ali, ARM Mehrab; Sarkar, MA Quaiyum; Hildemann, Lynn; Dey, Nepal C; Rahman, Mizanur; Dwivedi, Puneet; Wise, Paul (BRAC, 2011-05)
      This study aimed to explore the factors affecting the promotion of improved cookstove (ICS) to replace traditional stove and hence to combat indoor air pollution (lAP). The study was conducted in 58 randomly selected ...

    • Sustaining health: the role of BRAC's community health volunteers in Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Uganda 

      Reichenbach, Laura; Shimul, Shafiun Nahin (BRAC, 2011-09)
      This study fills an important gap in current understanding about a critical aspect of BRAG's health programmes - the financial sustainability of the community health volunteers (commonly referred to as Shasthya Shebikas ...

    • Where NGOs go and do not go? 

      Mallick, Debdulal; Nabin, Munirul H. (BRAC, 2011-05)
      We aim to investigate the role of output market imperfections in constraining the microfinance programme to mitigate credit market imperfections. We develop a model in which output market imperfections increase operating ...