Bangladesh has made recent progress in reducing poverty, but still faces the reality that roughly half its citizens … and priority measures to accelerate poverty reduction. The report suggests that changes in practices an policies, to … social justice. Dramatically lowering the incidence of poverty requires significantly higher levels of economic performance …

In Bangladesh the official poverty rates are produced at the national and division levels only using household income … large variations in poverty incidence within the east and the west. Mapping the data at lower levels allows for easier … recognition of important patterns at local and community scale levels. Poverty mapping is a statistical exercise to estimate the …

The study aims at developing an Educational Development Index (EDI) for Bangladesh. The present effort is the crucial … first step towards developing a comprehensive and composite index of educational performance in Bangladesh. While the … creating an Education Development Index (EDI) for the primary education sector of Bangladesh, the methodology is described in …

living in absolute poverty, who have benefitted too little from past progress. This report examines some of the difficulties …

This report focuses on the dimensions of poverty, and how to create a better world, free of poverty. The analysis … explores the nature, and evolution of poverty, and its causes, to present a framework for action. The opportunity for expanding … growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, can be harnessed through economic integration, and technological change, dependent …

thinking on disability measurement; from census to surveys; policy dimensions of disability measurement - Brazil; good …