"The microfinance industry in Bangladesh currently provides access to credit to around 13 million poor households …. Zaman describes the factors that led to the scaling-up of micro-credit in Bangladesh, the impact this has had on the poor …, future challenges in Bangladesh, and possible lessons for other countries. The consensus in the literature is that micro …

"Seasonal poverty in Bangladesh, locally known as monga, refers to seasonal deprivation of food during the pre … targeted poor to contain income seasonality and poverty in this impoverished part of Bangladesh. "--World Bank web site …

"This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of trade reforms in rural areas of Bangladesh. The liberalization of …

poverty in Bangladesh. They use a sequential dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which takes into account … accumulation effects, allowing for long-run analysis. The study is based on the 2000 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of Bangladesh … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …

impacts of rural road projects using household-level panel data from Bangladesh. Rural road investments are found to reduce …

Bangladesh, they analyze exposure at two levels--differences within households attributable to family roles, and differences … half the exposure of women (whose exposure is similar to that of children and adolescents). They also find that elderly men … have significantly lower exposure than elderly women. Across households, they draw on results from their previous paper …