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The alleviation of poverty has been the prime objective of small-scale targeted credit programs such as the Grameen … Bank of Bangladesh. Based on household survey data, this paper concludes that these programs can play an important role in … both lesing poverty and sustaining household welfare on a long-term basis. …
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The alleviation of poverty has been the prime objective of small-scale targeted credit programs such as the Grameen … Bank of Bangladesh. Based on household survey data, this paper concludes that these programs can play an important role in … both lesing poverty and sustaining household welfare on a long-term basis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005479232
This study uses the Viet Nam Living Standards Survey of 1992-93 to examine the association between household living standards and the level of access to various infrastructural services.
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This summary report presents the findings of the Bangladesh WASH Poverty Diagnostic (BWPD) study led by the World Bank …'s Water and Poverty Global Practices. Though very few Bangladeshis now fetch water from rivers or defecate in fields, the vast … show the implications of these numbers on human development and poverty reduction. A large portion of the work is dedicated …
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Bangladesh has an inspiring story of reducing poverty and advancing development. Since 2000, the country has reduced … solutions. To end extreme poverty by the next decade, Bangladesh will need to continue to build on its successes, such as family … poverty by half. In the last decade and a half, it lifted more than 25 million out of poverty. The country's economy remained …
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Bangladesh has an inspiring story of reducing poverty and advancing development. Since 2000, the country has reduced … solutions. To end extreme poverty by the next decade, Bangladesh will need to continue to build on its successes, such as family … poverty by half. In the last decade and a half, it lifted more than 25 million out of poverty. The country's economy remained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646658
Situated in a fertile low-lying river delta, Bangladesh combines high vulnerability to floods, tropical cyclones … development' in view of the formidable development challenges it faced. Nevertheless, Bangladesh has proven to be remarkably … resilient, developing well beyond initial expectations, and has made very good progress with poverty reduction. GNI per capita …
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Group-based lending programs for the poor have become a focus of attention in the development community over the last several years. To date, there has been no comprehensive investigation of their impact on household behavior that has been sufficiently attentive to issues of endogeneity and...
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. The Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) was established nearly 25 years ago as a relief organization and is now …
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