| Living Below the Line: Sustainability and the houses of the ultra poor |
| Khondaker Hasibul Kabir, Fuad H Mallick |
| November - 2005 |
| Paper for the 22nd Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture. Beirut, Lebanon, 13-16 November 2005 |
| For the extreme poor in Bangladesh, day-to-day survival is the primary concern of life. Shelter is a basic need. The adequacy of this shelter is not. The ultra poor communities in Bangladesh seemingly live in the most basic form of shelter. A closer look however, reveals that the building practices of these people address sustainability, affordability and.... |
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| The very poor who participate in microfinance institutions and those who never have |
| Imran Matin |
| Vol - 16 Issue - 3 October - 2005 |
| Small Enterprise Development Journal |
| There is general consensus that the very poor have not been adequately reached by existing microfinance institutions, but there is very little research evidence to support this.... |
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| Addressing vulnerabiilties of the poorest: A micro perspective from BRAC |
| Imran Matin |
| July - 2005 |
| Paper presented at the ABCDE 2005 Conference, Amsterdam |
| The poorest have been left out not only by mainstream development approaches, but also by mainstream development knowledge.... |
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| Productivity and Virtue: Elite Categories of the Poor in Bangladesh |
| Naomi Hossain |
| Vol - 33 Issue - 6 June - 2005 |
| World Development |
| Based on research into elite attitudes toward poverty, this paper explores the political significance of elite categories of the poor in Bangladesh.... |
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| Inequitable access to immunization and vitamin A capsule services: a case of ethnic minorities in three hill districts of Bangladesh |
| Fazlul Karim, M Rafi, SA Begum |
| Vol - 119 Issue - 8 June - 2005 |
| Public Health |
Avoidable geographic, ethnic and socio-economic disparity in immunization coverage has been a serious concern for Bangladesh. However, this dimension has not been systematically investigated by independent researchers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh due to political inconveniences stemming from a 20-year armed struggle for autonomy, which ended following a
peace agreement in December 1997.... |
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| Women’s Productive Role and Marital Violence in Bangladesh |
| Abdullahel Hadi |
| Vol - 20 Issue - 3 June - 2005 |
| Journal of Family Violence |
| This study assesses the role of women’s participation in productive activities in reducing the risk of marital violence. Data were collected from villages where numerous nongovernment organizations (NGOs) had microcredit-based income generating programs for the poor.... |
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| Using Communication for Social Change To Build Social Capital for Bangladeshis Who Are Ultrapoor |
| Jenevieve Mannell |
| Issue - 3 May - 2005 |
| MAZI: Communication for Social Change Report |
| This paper outlines the communication for social change programme of the advocacy and Human Rights Unit (AHRU) of BRAC and places it within a methodological context. The programme shows how communication can be used for much more than information dissemination and, when effectively implemented, can drive significant social change.... |
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| Intimate Partner Violence against Women: Experiences from a Woman-focused Development Programme in Matlab, Bangladesh |
| Syed Masud Ahmed |
| Vol - 23 Issue - 1 March - 2005 |
| Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition |
| This paper explores the association between microcredit-based development programmes and domestic violence against women perpetrated by their husbands. A sub-set of cross-sectional data collected in 1999 from 60 BRAC-ICDDR,B study villages in Matlab, Bangladesh, was used.... |
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| Socioeconomic status overrides age and gender in determining health seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh |
| Syed Masud Ahmed, Göran Tomson, Max Petzold, Zarina Nahar Kabir |
| Vol - 83 Issue - 2 February - 2005 |
| Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
| This paper explores the health-seeking behaviour of elderly members (aged > 60 years) of households in rural Bangladesh, to ascertain how their behaviour differs from that of younger people (aged 20-59 years) living in the same household and to explore the determinants of health-seeking behaviour..... |
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| BRAC initiative towards promoting gender and social equity in health: a longitudinal study of child growth in Matlab |
| M Khatun, H Stenlund and Agneta Hörnell |
| Vol - 7 Issue - 8 December - 2004 |
| Public Health Nutrition |
| This paper explores the effect of BRAC initiatives towards promoting gender and social equity in health among children of poor mothers who are BRAC members. A cohort of 576 children from the prospective study of a BRAC- ICDDR, B joint research project was analysed. Data were collected three times during 1995-1996 with approximately 4-month intervals.... |
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