Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22 % of households to send a seasonal migrant, their consump...
Andréa Cornwall, Vera Schattan P. Coelho
* Foreword - John Gaventa * 1. Spaces for Change? The Politics of Participation in New Democratic Arenas - Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan P. Coelho * Part I: The Challenge of Inclusion ** 2. Brazilian Health Councils: including the excluded? - Vera Schattan P. Coelho ** 3. Spaces for participatio...
Syed Ahsanuddin Ahmed, Motunrayo Ajisola, Kehkashan Azeem, Pauline Bakibinga et al.
INTRODUCTION: With COVID-19, there is urgency for policymakers to understand and respond to the health needs of slum communities. Lockdowns for pandemic control have health, social and economic consequences. We consider access to healthcare before and during COVID-19 with those working and living in...
Naila Kabeer
* Foreword - John Gaventa * INTRODUCTION * 1. The search for inclusive citizenship: Meanings and expressions in an interconnected world.- Naila Kabeer * CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHTS * 2. Towards an actor-oriented Perspective on human rights - Celestine Nyamu-Musembi * 3. The emergence of human rights in t...
Vijayendra Rao, Michael Walton
How does culture matter for development? Do certain societies have cultures which condemn them to poverty? Led by Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, and Amartya Sen, the anthropologists and economists in this volume contend that culture is central to development, and that processes are neither inherentl...
Saunders, Doug 1967-
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...
Manoj Roy
Masud Rana
Vale, Lawrence J.
"This new, expanded edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity examines how architecture and urban design have been manipulated in the service of politics. Focusing on the design of parliamentary complexes in capital cities across the world, it shows how these places reveal the struggles ...
Nurul Islam, G Angeles, A. Q. M. Mahbub, Peter Lance et al.
This report presents results from a census and mapping of slums in the six main cities of Bangladesh in 2005. This effort has generated a wealth of information about the location and basic characteristics of their slums. The outputs include detailed maps of the six cities providing timely informatio...
Boris Braun, Tibor Aßheuer
Bangladesch Parisaṅkhyāna Byuro
Gustavo Ángeles, Peter Lance, Janine Barden-O’Fallon, Nazrul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: The concentration of poverty and adverse environmental circumstances within slums, particularly those in the cities of developing countries, are an increasingly important concern for both public health policy initiatives and related programs in other sectors. However, there is a dearth o...
Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Atiq Zaman, Tahmina Ahsan, Fahmid Ahmed
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the eleventh largest megacity city in the world, with a population of 18.2 million people living in an area of 1528 km2. This city profile traces the trajectories of its urban development to becoming a megacity and characterizes its emerging challenges due to inf...