from Bangladesh. It first examines the determinants of poverty transition categories (chronic poor, never poor, falling …This paper examines the correlates of poverty transitions and consumption per capita, using a new longitudinal data set … into poverty, moving out of poverty) as a function of household characteristics in the original survey round and shocks …

This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level detail, in order to … micro-level analysis with the macro-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh, and draws out what it has to say … statistics of the key factors that might explain changes in poverty status during the study period. Section 4 continues the …

This paper draws from life history interviews to investigate poverty dynamics in Bangladesh and considers life … histories as a supplement to more quantitative approaches in poverty research. Qualitative life history methods allow the … to examine poverty dynamics more generally and also draw attention to the potential for using life history approaches in …

This paper presents findings from 116 focus group discussions which took place in eleven districts in Bangladesh in mid …-2006. It forms the first part of three phases of research in an integrated qualitative and quantitative study into poverty … dynamics currently being undertaken by the author and partners from the CPRC, IFPRI and DATA Bangladesh. The central purpose of …

In this paper we explore the implications of using two different methodological approaches to study poverty dynamics in … rural Bangladesh. Using data from a unique mixed-methods longitudinal study of rural households, we focus on how different … methods lead to very different assessments of socio-economic mobility, in particular movements into and out of poverty. We …

Policies to expand basic schooling in Bangladesh have generally fit well with popular desires and preferences for … formal schooling. This paper explores the efforts of government to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty …

This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … currently above the poverty line is highly vulnerable to poverty in the future. The study finds that agricultural households or …

In Bangladesh, as in many developing countries, there is a widespread belief amongst the public, policymakers and … social workers that children 'abandon' their families and migrate to the street because of economic poverty. This dominant … empirical research with children in Bangladesh. It finds that social factors lie behind most street migration and, in particular …

with over 100 poor and very poor people in rural and urban Bangladesh. The research was designed to help improve our … understanding of the political constraints shaping public policy with respect to poverty. In particular it aimed to understand the …

This paper applies Carter and Barrett's theory of assets poverty traps to a unique longitudinal survey from rural … Bangladesh. Non-parametric and parametric methods are used to examine the shape of the dynamic asset frontier, the number of … strategies in rural Bangladesh, and Asia more generally, help to explain the contrast between our results and those for several …