| Patterns and Trends in Food Consumption in Poor Urban and Rural Households in Bangladesh: The Field Survey Results |
| Shantana Halder, Ian Urey, Proloy Barua |
| September - 2003 |
| To develop understanding of different components of the changes occurring in food system and to ascertain how these changes are creating or reducing job and income opportunities for the poor, a project was undertaken for implementation in two phases.... |
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| Cause and Effect Analysis of Membership Discontinuation: A Case Study |
| Altaf Hossain |
| August - 2003 |
| This case study looks into the dropout matter for in-depth understanding of the causes and effect and policy implication of the issue..... |
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| Poverty Impact and Outreach of Microfinance in Bangladesh: Current Knowledge, Practices and Moving Ahead |
| Imran Matin |
| April - 2003 |
| Even as late as the early 1990s, scaling up the success of a handful of microfinance institutions in Bangladesh to serve the vast majority of the poor in Bangladesh was one of the big challenges.... |
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| Assessment of the Skill Training Programme for Employment of Retrenched Female Garment Workers |
| M Showkat Gani |
| March - 2003 |
| This study assessed the effectiveness of skill training programme of BRAC for re-employment of retrenched female garment workers (RFGW)..... |
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| Knowledge, Attitude and Perceptions of Bangladesh Civil Society on Rice Biotechnology Research |
| AM Muazzam Husain, Manik L Bose, Mahbub Hossain |
| March - 2003 |
| A survey was conducted on the knowledge, perception and attitude of civil society groups in Bangladesh on rice biotechnology research in the country.... |
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| BRAC’s Microfinance Canvass: Financial Services and Strategic Linkages |
| Imran Matin, Aminul Alam |
| December - 2002 |
| The poor are a diverse group with diverse livelihoods, needs and potential, which change over time due to lifecycle, new opportunities and external shocks. This diverse and dynamic reality of poor peoples’ lives forms the canvass within which BRAC conceptualises and designs its repertoire of development programs, in which microfinance is a core element.... |
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| BRAC-Char Development and Settlement Project 2000–2004: Mid Term Evaluation Report |
| Dilruba Banu |
| September - 2002 |
| Char Development and Settlement Project is designed to link the poor char people to mainstream development. Through five local NGOs the project commenced a series of interventions such as group formation and provision of credit, extension with regard to economic activities, and provision of health, legal and education services..... |
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| Wider Impacts of Microfinance Institutions: Towards defining the scope and methodology |
| Sajjad Zohir, Imran Matin |
| September - 2002 |
| The theme of wider implications of microfinance institutions’ interventions is a relatively uncharted territory, though the term is alluded to quite frequently. The interest in this theme has emerged out of a number of motivations..... |
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| Asset-ing the Extreme Poor: Experiences and Lessons from a BRAC Project |
| Imran Matin, Shamim A Begum |
| May - 2002 |
| In response to the 1998 flood, many donors funded NGOs which delivered rehabilitation inputs to their own members. This was a concern as the extreme poor, who suffer the most damaging losses.... |
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| Microfinance in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna Chars: The Context, the Providers and Way Forward |
| Imran Matin, M Emrul Hassan, M Maniruzzaman |
| March - 2002 |
| Informal financial sources dominate the financial landscape of the char areas in ways distinct from the mainland areas of rural Bangladesh. Microfinance in the char areas has not even scratched the surface of the first and basic microfinance challenge – outreach.... |
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