Syed Hashemi, Sidney Ruth Schuler, Ann P. Riley
Johanna Mair, Ignasi Martí, Marc J. Ventresca
Much effort goes into building markets as a tool for economic and social development; those pursuing or promoting market building, however, often overlook that in too many places social exclusion and poverty prevent many, especially women, from participating in and accessing markets. Building on dat...
Naila Kabeer
Mead Cain, Syeda Rokeya Khanam, Shamsun Nahar
Simeen Mahmud, Nirali Shah, Stan Becker
Women’s empowerment is a dynamic process that has been quantified, measured and described in a variety of ways. We measure empowerment in a sample of 3500 rural women in 128 villages of Bangladesh with five indicators. A conceptual framework is presented, together with descriptive data on the indica...
Shahidur R. Khandker, Zaid Bakht, Gayatri Koolwal
A rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to employ labor and capital more efficiently. Significant knowledge gaps persist, however, as to how opportunities provided by roads actually filter back into househo...
Naila Kabeer
Inasmuch as women's subordinate status is a product of the patriarchal structures of constraint that prevail in specific contexts, pathways of women's empowerment are likely to be "path dependent." They will be shaped by women's struggles to act on the constraints that prevail in their societies, as...
Md. Mostafa Shamsuzzaman, Mohammad Mahmudul Islam, Nusrat Jahan Tania, Md. Abdullah Al-Mamun et al.
Bangladesh is considered one of the most suitable regions for fisheries in the world, with the world's largest flooded wetland and the third largest aquatic biodiversity in Asia after China and India. This paper reviews the performance of fisheries in Bangladesh using data collected from the Banglad...
Blessing Mberu, Tilahun Haregu, Catherine Kyobutungi, Alex Ezeh
BACKGROUND: It is generally assumed that urban slum residents have worse health status when compared with other urban populations, but better health status than their rural counterparts. This belief/assumption is often because of their physical proximity and assumed better access to health care serv...
Masud Rana
Brooke A. Ackerly
Summary The effectiveness of a credit programme at empowering women depends on the success with which it defines for itself and its workers ways to challenge, while working within, the constraints on women's empowerment that may exist in the borrower's country. Support for this argument is found in ...
Pavani K. Ram, Amal Halder, Stewart P. Granger, Thérèse Jones et al.
Structured observation is often used to evaluate handwashing behavior. We assessed reactivity to structured observation in rural Bangladesh by distributing soap containing acceleration sensors and performing structured observation 4 days later. Sensors recorded the number of times soap was moved. In...
David Lewis, Anthony Bebbington, Simon Batterbury, Alpa Shah et al.
Abstract Culture has received increasing attention in critical development studies, though the notion that there are important cultural differences within and between development organizations has received less consideration. This paper elaborates elements of a framework for studying organizational ...
Wayne Patterson, Hugh Tinker