In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … working poor in acquiring education. From a field study conducted in Bangladesh, this paper provides invaluable insights for …

program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …

Microcredit program, originating in Bangladesh in the late 1970s, has played an important role to meet the financing … out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 …