Sheila Aikman, Elaine Unterhalter
Introduction Part One: The Challenges for Gender Equality in Education: Fragmented frameworks? Researching women, gender, education, and development Ensuring a fair chance for girls Measuring gender equality in education Part Two:Transforming Action - Changing Policy through Practice: Educating girl...
Amanuel G. Tekleab, Kathryn M. Bartol, Wei Liu
Abstract Two studies examined the relationship between actual pay and distributive and procedural justice, and the extent to which these perceptions were related to two important pay satisfaction dimensions, pay level and pay raise, and ultimately, impacted turnover. For each study the measures of p...
Geoffrey McNicoll, Roger Jeffery, Alaka Malwade Basu
Schooling as Contraception? - Roger Jeffery and Alaka M Basu Girls' Schooling, Autonomy and Fertility Change - Alaka M Basu What Do These Words Mean in South Asia? Maternal Schooling and Fertility - John Cleland and Shireen Jejeebhoy Evidence from Censuses and Surveys Educational Attainment, Status ...
Martin Woodhead
This article summarizes some features of the Radda Barnen (Swedish Save the Children) study `Children's Perspectives on their Working Lives'. The case is made for working children's participation in the process of combatting child labour. Their participation will help ensure that interventions desig...
Jennifer L. Solotaroff, Rohini Pande
This report documents the dynamics of violence against women in South Asia across the life cycle, from early childhood to old age. It explores the different types of violence that women may face throughout their lives, as well as the associated perpetrators (male and female), risk and protective fac...
Akhter Ahmed, Carlo del Ninno, Ahmed, Akhter U., Del Ninno, Carlo
The Government of Bangladesh launched the innovative Food for Education (FFE) program in 1993. The FFE program provides a free monthly ration of rice or wheat to poor families if their children attend primary school. The goals of this program are to increase primary school enrollment, promote attend...
Farzana Shain
Challenging western misconceptions and stereoptypes of young Asian girls, this book through the analysis of Asian girls experiences reassesses the role that schooling can play in shaping their identities. It draws on an empirical study with Muslim, Hindu and Sikh schoolgirls of Pakistani, Indian and...
Jad Chaaban, Wendy Cunningham
Although girls are approximately half \n the youth population in developing countries, they \n contribute less than their potential to the economy. The \n objective of this paper is to quantify the opportunity cost \n of girls' exclusion from productive employment with the \n hop...
Bangladesh. Parikalpanā Kamiśana. General Economics Division, Support to Monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies, MDGs in Bangladesh
Olof Johansson‐Stenman, Minhaj Mahmud, Peter Martinsson
Trust is measured using both survey questions and a trust experiment among a random sample of Muslim and Hindu household heads in rural Bangladesh. We found no significant effect of the social distance between Hindus and Muslims in the trust experiment in terms of the proportions sent or returned. H...
Pauline Rose
This paper focuses on approaches by non‐government organisations (NGOs) to reach primary school‐aged children excluded from access to the conventional state education system. It highlights recent shifts in international literature and agency priorities from the portrayal of NGO provision as a (non‐f...
Esther Boylan
joys. We meet Kubi Bibi who secretly secures a love potion for her shamed deserted daughter; Banessa, one of the destitute village woman, who entertains everyone with her loud, vulgar songs; the young bnde Hushnia, who goes into a swoon in an attempt to avoid her wedding day; and Abdul Hasain, the Q...
Foreword by Frances Stewart PART I. INTRODUCTION Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest: An Introduction A.Barrientos& D.Hulme PART TWO: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS FOR SOCIAL PROTECTIONS: RISKS, NEEDS AND RIGHTS Risks, Needs and Rights: Compatible or Contradictory Bases for Social Protection? L.Munro...
Kaushik Basu, Ambar Narayan, Martin Ravallion
A member of a collective-action households may or may not share the benefits of literacy with others in that household; the shared gains from doing so may well be offset by a shift in the balance of power within the family. Using household survey data for Bangladesh, we find strong external effects ...
Youjin Hahn, Asad Islam, Kanti Ananta Nuzhat, Russell Smyth et al.
In 1994, Bangladesh introduced the Female Secondary School Stipend Program that made secondary education free for rural girls. This paper examines the long-term effects of the stipend program on education, marriage, fertility, and labor market outcomes of women. We find that the stipend increased ye...