Shafiul Azam Ahmed, Mansoor Ali
Gary Haq
This Earthscan reader is aimed at students, planners, business people and policy makers interested in researching or attempting to address the issues associated with world transport policy and practice. The contributions include: a foreword by E Penalosa outlining the transport crisis facing cities ...
Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron, Michael Young
This is non-fiction Brick Lane -what life is really like around Brick Lane and the East End. One of the most influential non-fiction books of the 1950s was Family and Kinship in East London which examined in great depth the life of people living in the dockland areas that had been so comprehensively...
Richard Montgomery
This paper utilizes case studies from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to explore a disadvantage of group lending schemes: the unnecessary social costs of repayment pressure. The author argues that extending credit and meeting the needs of the poor need not be incompatible. The poor can be protected from so...
Imran Matin, David Hulme, Stuart Rutherford
Abstract This paper reviews the achievements of the ‘microfinance revolution’, through reference to the now extensive literature. It finds that there are many opportunities to improve and innovate. To illustrate this finding, the paper concentrates on examining what we need to know to design and del...
Robert E. Black, Kenneth H. Brown, Stan Becker, Mohammad Yunus
Longitudinal studies were done in two villages in rural Bangladesh to learn more about the interactions between infectious diseases and the nutritional status of children. An intensive system of surveillance was used to determine the occurrence and frequency of infectious diseases in a cohort of 197...
r R. Khandker
Micro-finance supports mainly informal activities that often have low market demand. It may be thus hypothesized that the aggregate poverty impact of micro-finance in an economy with low economic growth is modest or nonexistent. The observed borrower-level poverty impact is then a result of income r...
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
Huraera Jabeen, Cassidy Johnson, Adriana Allen
Significant lessons can be drawn from grassroots experiences of coping with extreme weather for reducing the vulnerability of the urban poor to climate change. This paper examines the household and community coping strategies used by low-income households living in Korail, the largest informal settl...
David Roodman, Jonathan Morduch
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