Asad Islam, Chongwoo Choe
Microcredit has been shown to be effective in reducing poverty in many developing countries. However, less is known about its effect on human capital formation. In this article, we examine the impact of access to microcredit on children's education and child labor using a new and large data set from...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
Abstract Over the decades of the 1980s and 90s many poverty alleviation programmes have been implemented in developing countries. Evaluations of such programmes have traditionally looked at their success in increasing the income levels of participants but less at the wider goals of human well‐being....
Salman Yousuf Guraya, Robert I. Norman, Khalid I. Khoshhal, Shaista Salman Guraya et al.
OBJECTIVES: Generally, academic promotions, job retention, job mobility, and professional development of a medical faculty members are judged primarily by the growth in publication outputs. Universities and research institutions are more likely to recruit and promote those academics carrying volumin...
Ricardo Sabatés, Altaf Hossain, Keith Lewin
AC Pounds, Ronald Grigg, Theeravat Mongkolaussavaratana
Abstract The use of a new amino acid reagent 1,8-diazafluoren-9-one (DFO), which produces a highly fluorescent species with latent fingerprints on paper, is described. Spectral characteristics of the fluorescent fingerprint show excitation (λex approximately 470 nm) and emission (λex approximately 5...
Esha Sraboni, Agnes Quisumbing
Using nationally-representative survey data from rural Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women's empowerment in agriculture and indicators of individual dietary quality. Our findings suggest that women's empowerment is associated with better dietary quality of individuals within the ho...
Paul Bywaters, Zoebia Ali, Qulsom Fazil, Louise Wallace et al.
It has sometimes been assumed that religiously based explanations for and attitudes to having a disabled child have led to the low uptake of health and social services by ethnic minority families in the UK. A series of semi-structured interviews were held between 1999 and 2001 with 19 Pakistani and ...
Abbas Bhuiya, Kim Streatfield
In this paper it is investigated whether the positive effect of mothers' education on child survival is similar for boys and girls in Matlab, Bangladesh. The study is based on follow-up of 7,913 live births that occurred in the study area during the whole of 1982. The five independent variables incl...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Farzana Islam, Elisabeth Rottach
This article explores the changing dimensions of women's empowerment over time in three Bangladesh villages where one of the authors has been conducting research since 1991. The article discusses theoretical issues related to the measurement of women's empowerment, and describes findings from a rece...
Barbara Herz, Kalanidhi Subbarao, Masooma Habib, Laura Raney
No AccessWorld Bank Discussion Papers12 Aug 2013Letting girls learnPromising approaches in primary and secondary educationAuthors/Editors: Barbara Herz, K. Subbarao, Masooma Habib, Laura RaneyBarbara Herz, K. Subbarao, Masooma Habib, Laura Raneyhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-1937-XSectionsAboutPDF (...
Billy Wong
ABSTRACT The importance of science to the economy and for the progression of society is widely acknowledged. Yet, there are concerns that minority ethnic students in the UK are underrepresented, and even excluded, from post‐compulsory science education and careers in science. Drawing on an explorato...
Pushkar Maitra
Education and human capital accumulation are essential components of economic development. This paper attempts to identify some of the individual and household level characteristics that affect the demand for schooling in Bangladesh. We examine (1) current enrolment status of children aged 6 -12 and...
Maureen Lewis, Marlaine E. Lockheed
Girls have achieved remarkable increases in primary schooling over the past decade, yet millions are still not in school. In their previous book, Inexcusable Absence, Maureen A. Lewis and Marlaine E. Lockheed reported the startling new finding that nearly threequarters of the girls who are not in sc...
Shalini Roy, Jinnat Ara, Narayan Das, Agnes Quisumbing
Many development interventions target transfers to women. However, little evidence directly explores the “flypaper effects” of whether women retain control over these transfers once within the household and how reallocation of the transfers affects women's empowerment. We study these dynamics in the...
Anna T Schurmann
The Female Secondary School Stipend Project in Bangladesh was established to increase the enrollment of girls in secondary schools, thereby delaying marriage and childbearing. This analysis examined the existing data using the social exclusion framework to clarify the primary exclusionary factors th...