infrastructure projects in the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) region, connecting Nepal, eastern India … developments might affect the broader economy in SASEC, and in particular impact on income distribution and poverty. The paper … describes a new CGE model for South Asia, covering India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan, which incorporates …

the economy. If that happens, foreign aid could be an enormous catalyst for economic development—and poverty may soon …

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 …

In the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the poverty has been a main challenge since the last decades and its … alleviation is one of the country’s strategic goals to achieve MDGs by 2015 to fight poverty and improve the standards of living … of underprivileged population. Micro and SME financing have been playing important role in poverty reduction by creation …

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

implications keeping the poverty reduction imperatives in view. [BB PP No. 0807]. URL:[http://www.bangladesh-bank.org/openpdf.php]. …