Manfred Zeller, Richard L. Meyer, Zeller, Manfred, Meyer, Richard L.
Contents: List of FiguresList of TablesList of BoxesForeword Preface 1 Improving the Preformance of Microfinance: Financial Sustainability, Outreach, and Impact MANFRED ZELLER AND RICHARD L. MEYERPART I Access to and Demand for Financial Services by the Poor 2 Access to and Demand for Financial Serv...
Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, Louise O. Fresco, Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan
This Open Access book compiles the findings of the Scientific Group and its research partners to inform the transformation of contemporary food systems.
Abdul Bayes, Joachim von Braun, Rasheda Akhter, Bayes, Abdul et al.
The intent of the present study is to evaluate the role of telecommunications within the contexts of rural development in general and of poverty reduction in particular. Bangladesh has been selected as a case study due to the uniqueness it displayed in an innovative program for expanded telecom infr...
Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, L.O. Fresco, Mohamed Hassan
Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam, Joachim von Braun, Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Akhter Ahmed
Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, L.O. Fresco, Mohamed Hassan et al.
Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, L.O. Fresco, Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan
Abstract Science offers many important contributions to achieving the SDGs, of which we highlight two here: first, science generates the basic inputs for innovations, i.e., policy and institutional innovations (including social and business innovations), as well as technology-based innovations to ca...
Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, L.O. Fresco, Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan
Abstract Food Systems at the global level and in many countries and regions are failing to end hunger, assure the safety of foods, provide adequate nutritious foods and contribute to obesity. How we produce and consume food has implications for the health of people, animals, plants and the planet it...
Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, L.O. Fresco, Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan et al.
Abstract The United Nations with its Food Systems Summit 2021 and member countries seek to alter food systems to be healthier, safer, more sustainable, efficient and equitable. This chapter informs about concepts and definitions of food systems and the determinants of their change. To foster a clear...
* About the Editors * Contributors * Foreword (Joachim von Braun, Isher Judge Alhuwalia, and Mangala Rai) * Acknowledgments * Introduction. Economic Reforms and Food Security in South Asia: An Overview of the Issues and Challenges (Suresh Chandra Babu and Ashok Gulati) * Background * Outline of the ...
Roohi Ahmed, Joachim von Braun, Elissa Kennedy
Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam
AbstractThis study examines the impact of integrated aquaculture-agriculture (IAA) value chain participation dynamics on the welfare of indigenous households using a three-wave household panel dataset from Bangladesh. An innovation of this study is that distributional effects of IAA value chain part...
Nicolas Gerber, Joachim von Braun, Muhammed A. Usman, Mohammad Monirul Hasan et al.
In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognized access to safe water and sanitation infrastructure a matter of human right. This right is reflected in Sustainable Development Goal 6, whose targets 1 and 2 point to universal access to safe and affordable drinking water and adequate sanitation...
Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam, Islam, A.H.M.S.
In the light of on-going debates about the sustainable agricultural intensification and sustainable development paradigms, this paper examined the linkages between integrated aquaculture-agriculture (IAA) value chain participation dynamics and the welfare of marginalized extremely poor indigenous ho...
Books reviewed: David A., McDonald (ed.) On Borders: Perspectives on International Migration in Southern Africa Willem, van der Geest and Ralph, van der Hoeven (eds) Adjustment, Employment and Missing Institutions in Africa: Experience in Eastern and Southern Africa Nils, Bhinda; Stephany, Griffith‐...
Books reviewed: John Twigg and Mihir R. Bhatt, eds, Understanding Vulnerability Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Teklu and Patrick Webb, Famine in Africa: Causes, Responses, and Prevention C. Emdad Haque, Hazrads in a Fickle Environment: Bangladesh Walter Gillis Peacock, Betty Hearn Morrow and Hugh Gladwi...
Joachim von Braun