microfinance clients in Bangladesh are among the poorest. It is from the realization that even within the existing microfinance …Despite the general consensus that microfinance does not reach the poorest; recent evidence suggests that nearly 15% of … benefit from microfinance services. This study attempts to assess the targeting effectiveness of the BDP ultra poor programme …

Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction-Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) that aims to experiment with a different type … of approach to address extreme rural poverty. The underlying theme of both the CFPR/TUP programme and the targeting …

Studies of poverty dynamics relying solely on household income-expenditure surveys can yield noisy results …, overestimating transient poverty and underestimating persistence of poverty, especially for the poorest. In this study, we make use … including promotional, protective and transformative strategies to make a real dent on extreme poverty.[CFPR-TUP Working Paper …

Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L …

Using data from a survey of clients of a microfinance bank, Khushhali Bank, in 2005, the study revisited the survey … data and found that despite the Bank’s strict poverty-targeting program used in client selection and despite the surveyâ …

Bangladesh. Maymana and Mofizul’s story confirms much current thinking about persistent poverty in that country. [WP No. 22]. …Much recent thinking on poverty and poverty reduction is ‘big’ in terms of its ideas, units of analysis, datasets …

implications keeping the poverty reduction imperatives in view. [BB PP No. 0807]. URL:[http://www.bangladesh-bank.org/openpdf.php]. …This note examines recent trends in the labor market and employment situation in Bangladesh and draws some policy …

This Policy Brief discusses whether Bangladesh should continue to pursue a national food security strategy based on …