Series No. 23
To Produce or not to Produce: Tackling the Tobacco Dilemma |
| Firdousi Naher, AMR Chowdhury |
| October - 2002 |
| This study looked into the economics of tobacco cultivation in Bangladesh. At the macro level, the importance of tobacco farming has been declining. However, a survey conducted on 300 tobacco farmers in 19 villages of Rangpur and Kushtia revealed the increasing importance of tobacco at the micro level with more than a quarter of the sample farmers joining the rank of a tobacco farmer in the past five years.... |
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Series No. 22
Skilled Attendance at Delivery in Bangladesh: An Ethnographic Study |
| A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury, Amina Mahbub, Anita Sharif Chowdhury |
| January - 2002 |
| One of the most daunting challenges facing the world today in the field of health is the issue of maternal mortality. Here in this study we examine the delivery care practices with particular emphasis on the barriers and opportunities in seeking skilled attendance by the poorest sections of the community.... |
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Series No. 21
25 years of Brac research: Achievements. challenges and opportunities |
| Shayna L Storm |
| October - 2001 |
| In the difficult time following the war, a small organization known as the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee was founded, aiming to help provide emergency services in the Sulla region of the country. No one could have imagined at that point that the organization, later known as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee and then simply BRAC, would remain in operation and later grow into the largest development Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in the world.... |
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Series No. 20
Equity Gains in Bangladesh Primary Education |
| A Mushtaque R Chowdhury, Samir Nath, Rasheda K Choudhury |
| September - 2001 |
| Equity though a desirable objective of any development intervention, including education, not many studies dwell upon this area of development. Information on trends in equity experiences is even rare. This paper uses recent field level data from Bangladesh to examine the levels and trends in selected indicators of primary education.... |
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Series No. 19
Life in a Health Centre: An Ethnography from Rural Bangladesh |
| Shahaduz Zaman |
| July - 2001 |
| This monograph reports an ethnographic investigation done in a rural health centre in Bangladesh, established by BRAC, a non-governmental organization. This study aimed to describe and analyze the social and cultural aspects of a rural health centre in Bangladesh.... |
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Series No. 18
Hybrid Rice Adoption in Bangladesh: A Socioeconomic Assessment of farmers’ Experiences |
| AM Muazzam Husain, Mahabub Hossain, Aldas Janaiah |
| March - 2001 |
| The study aimed at finding the farm-level adoption pattern, differential performances, relative profitability and constraints to adoption of two hybrid rice varieties - Alok 6201 and Sonar Bangla (CNSGC 6)- introduced during 1999 Boro season in Bangladesh.... |
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Series No. 16
Combating a deadly menace: Early experiences with a community-based arsenic mitigation project in Bangladesh June 1999 - June 2000 |
| A M R Chowdhury, M Zabed Hossain, Ross Nickson, Mizanur Rahman,. M Jakariya, M Shamimuddin |
| August - 2000 |
| Bangladesh is facing the problem of arsenic poisoning in drinking water. Around 27% of the tubewells, which supply drinking water to most of the population, have arsenic concentrations above the government of Bangladesh limit of 50 Pg. per litre. This means that a quarter of the country's population is exposed to arsenic poisoning which is alarming and unprecedented in history.... |
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Series No. 17
BRAC's Contribution to Gross Domestic Product of Bangladesh |
| Debdulal Mallick |
| August - 2000 |
| This paper estimates the contribution of BRAC programmes to the gross domestic product (GDP) of Bangladesh. BRAC's contribution to GDP of Bangladesh has been divided into four components... |
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Series No. 15
Experiences of deluge: Flood 1998 |
| Syed Masud Ahmed, Hasan Shareef Ahmed (eds) |
| November - 1999 |
| The devastation and destruction caused by the flood of 1998 was unprecedented in the history of this country. It continued for more than 65 days and affected 100,000 sq. km. areas and destroyed basic infrastructures like roads, bridges, houses, standing crops of the fields, killed birds, animal and cattle heads. The most damaging aspect of the flood was the destruction of people’s means of livelihood. Decades-long efforts, both government and non-government, in alleviating poverty were threatened.... |
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Series No. 13
The Development Organization and Constraints to Development: BRAC Experience with Religious Organization in Relation to Human Rights and Legal Education Posters |
| Mohammad Rafi |
| June - 1999 |
| To educate people on human rights and some essential laws BRAC fixed 700,000 posters throughout Bangladesh. Displaying of the posters faced backlashes from the religious organizations. This paper investigated the nature and causes of the backlash and accordingly chalked out strategies for smooth functioning of the development orga-nizations in achieving their objectives.... |
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