This paper examines the role of social safety-net programs in Bangladesh run by the government and nongovernmental …

Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a …

2004 survey of some 2,300 households in rural Bangladesh, this paper studies the welfare impacts of household energy use … poverty line, the paper finds that some 58 percent of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor, compared with 45 percent …

,000 households in rural Bangladesh, this paper studies the welfare impacts of households' grid connectivity. Based on rigorous …

improve its trade standards and trade-handling capacity. A bilateral Free Trade Agreement would lift Bangladesh's exports to … numbers, based on existing trade patterns, represent a lower bound of the potential increase in Bangladesh's exports arising … from a Free Trade Agreement. A Free Trade Agreement would also raise India's exports to Bangladesh. India's provision of …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …