While security and women’s empowerment are both prominent development concerns, there has to date been little sustained analysis of the relationship between the two. An unexamined assumption appears t...
On 15 Jan 2014 This paper describes and draws lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in
support of the ultrapoor through the Gram Shahayak Committees (GSC), as part of
BRAC’s CFPR/TUP programme. [C...
On 07 Jan 2011 The objective of this study was to identify and understand the problems
faced by women-headed households. The study was undertaken with two assumptions: (1) a support
system is in place which ensure...
On 28 Dec 2010 This paper explores the efforts of government to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. It focuses on the practices and effects of the Primary Education Stipend Programme, a conditio...
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