Series No. 43
Household Costs of Obtaining Maternal and Newborn Care in Rural Bangladesh: Baseline Survey |
| Mohammad Nasir Uddin Khan, Zahidul Quayyum, Hashima-E-Nasreen, Tim Ensor, Sarah Salahuddin |
| December - 2009 |
| Mohammad Nasir Uddin Khan, Zahidul Quayyum, Hashima-E-Nasreen, Tim Ensor and Sarah Salauddin examine the costs incurred by a household for maternal and newborn care in selected areas of rural Bangladesh... |
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Series No. 42
Microfinance and Moneylender Interest Rate: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| Debdulal Mallick |
| November - 2009 |
| This paper addressed one aspect of the linkage by empirically investigating the impact of the microfinance programme expansion on the moneylender interest rates in Bangladesh, and found that moneylender interest rates increased with microfinance programme expansion... |
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Series No. 41
Socioeconomic Divides in Tuberculosis Control |
| Editor: Fazlul Karim |
| October - 2009 |
| The aims of the study were to measure the prevalence of smear-positive pulmonary TB (PTB) in different population groups, understand the patterns of people’s behaviour of and barriers to healthcare seeking for respiratory illnesses, assess socioeconomic and gender differences in the use of the DOTS services including treatment, and explore the role of the private informal healthcare providers in the DOTS strategy at the community level... |
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Series No. 40
Popular Theatre and BRAC |
| Mohammad Rafi, Hasanur Rahman |
| August - 2009 |
| The objectives of the study include evaluation of the popular theatre of BRAC as being performed, the extent of the messages being communicated through theatre... |
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Series No. 39
The Impact of Asset Transfer on Livelihoods of the Ultra Poor in Bangladesh |
| Akhter U. Ahmed, Mehnaz Rabbani, Munshi Sulaiman, Narayan C. Das |
| April - 2009 |
| This is a collaborative study conducted by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and BRAC Research and Evaluation Division. The study tries to assess the impact of the CFPR programme on livelihoods of the ultra poor in Bangladesh. |
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Series No. 38
Impact of the Food Price Hike on Nutritional Status of Women and Children |
| Munshi Sulaiman, Monira Parveen, Narayan Chandra Das |
| January - 2009 |
| The backdrop of persistence and peculiarities of the malnutrition question in Bangladesh has motivated this study to examine how child and maternal nutritional status has been affected due to the sharp rise in food prices.... |
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Series No. 37
Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Small and Medium Enterprises of BRAC Bank Limited |
| MA Quaiyum Sarkar, Nasima Akter |
| November - 2008 |
| This is the guideline for SME division of BRAC Bank towards environment-friendly enterprise development.... |
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Series No. 36
Small Scale Old Age and Widow Allowance for the Poor in Rural Bangladesh: An Evaluation |
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| July - 2008 |
| This study was done to explore the process of targeting, selection and benefits distribution and the use of the allowances, satisfaction, and the association of old age and widow allowances with various factors (e.g., expenditure on food and food intake behaviour, self-reported illness and health-related quality of life).... |
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Series No. 35
Employers’ Perceptions of Changing Child Labour Practices in Bangladesh |
| Sk. Tariquzzaman, Elma Kaiser |
| January - 2008 |
| This study aimed to know how and what factors have contributed in changing the patterns and perspectives of the employment of children over the last 15 years... |
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Series No. 34
Politics and Governance in the Social Sectors in Bangladesh: 1991-2006 |
| Naomi Hossain, Ferdous Osman |
| November - 2007 |
| Bangladesh has made impressive gains in poverty reduction and social and human development since 1991 although these achievements are increasingly overshadowed by rising concerns about quality and equity in social service provision. The achievements also contrast sharply with worsening governance over the period. This odd pairing of development success with governance failure has given rise to the so-called Bangladesh ‘paradox’: how were pro-poor development achievements possible, given the poor state of governance? |
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