One of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals−gender parity in all levels of education−is widely considered to have been attained. However, measuring gender parity only through school enrollment is misleading, as girls may lag behind boys in other educational measures. We...

This paper studies the spending and absorption of aid in PRGF-supported programs, verifies whether the use aid is programmed to be smoothed over time, and analyzes how considerations about macroeconomic stability influence the programmed use of aid. It finds that PRGF-supported programs allow...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Overview and current practice of Micro-finance across the world -- Chapter 3 Seasonality affecting Micro-credit in Bangladesh -- Chapter 4 Socio-economic scenarios of the sampled areas with sample data -- Chapter 5 Details of the experiment design -- Chapter 6...