Douglas F. Barnes, Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad
Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad, Zahed Hossain Khan
Micro‐credit programmes, having made their mark in providing credit and other development services to the poor in a non‐traditional way, are able to make significant changes in a rural economy. This article attempts to quantify the village‐level impacts of the three most important micro‐credit progr...
Shahidur R. Khandker, Douglas F. Barnes, Hussain A. Samad
Lack of access to electricity has been considered a major impediment to the growth and development of rural economies. Thus, the provision of electricity and other forms of modern energy has been a priority for many development organizations, including the World Bank. However, few impact studies of ...
Douglas F. Barnes, Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad
Lack of access to electricity is one of the major impediments to growth and development of the rural economies in developing countries. That is why access to modern energy, in particular to electricity, has been one of the priority themes of the World Bank and other development organizations. Using ...
Mohammed Asaduzzaman, Hussain A. Samad, Mohammad Yunus, Shahidur R. Khandker
The Government of Bangladesh, with help from the World Bank and other donors, has provided aid to a local agency called Infrastructure Development Company Limited and its partner organizations to devise a credit scheme for marketing solar home system units and making these an affordable alternative ...
Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad
This paper uses long panel survey data spanning over 20 years to examine the dynamics of microcredit programs in Bangladesh. With the phenomenal growth of microfinance institutions representing 30 million members with over $2 billion of annual disbursement over the past two decades, it is important ...
Monzur Hossain, Hussain A. Samad
Using household survey data from off-grid regions of rural Bangladesh, this study attempts to assess the impacts of mobile phone use on household welfare and women’s empowerment. Using two propensity score-based weighted regressions (IPW and AIPW), this study finds that mobile phone use increases ho...
Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad, Zubair K.M. Sadeque, Mohammed Asaduzzaman et al.
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in raising living standards and reducing poverty, particularly in previously lagging regions. Rapid solar home system (SHS) expansion in Bangladesh to some 3 million rural households by early 2014 has drawn the attention of donors and governments of other coun...
Douglas F. Barnes, Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad
Access to energy, especially modern sources, is a key to any development initiative. Based on cross-section data from a 2004 survey of some 2,300 households in rural Bangladesh, this paper studies the welfare impacts of household energy use, including that of modern energy, and estimates the househo...
Shahidur R. Khandker, M. A. Baqui Khalily, Hussain A. Samad
Abstract In north-west Bangladesh, some 36 per cent of poor households migrate every year during the lean (monga) period to cope with seasonal deprivation. Analysis of household survey data shows that the probability of seasonal migration is high for households with a high dependency ratio, high dep...
Rubaba Ali, Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad
In less-developed economies such as Bangladesh, the farm sector is the major source of employment and income, while the rural nonfarm sector provides as an additional source of income. But the rural nonfarm sector increasingly plays an important role in fostering the development of the rural economy...
Samad Hussain A., Hussain A. Samad, Khandker Shahidur R., Khandker Shahidur
This study investigates the long-term effects of microcredit programs, which have been operating in rural Bangladesh for over 20 years, on household income, expenditure, and poverty. The analysis shows that continuous participation in microcredit programs has helped participant households earn highe...
Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad, Nobuhiko Fuwa, Ryotaro Hayashi
Are subsidies to female education worth supporting to enhance socioeconomic and demographic changes? This paper examines whether or not the Female Secondary Stipend and Assistance Program (FSSAP) in Bangladesh matters. If it does, how much and in what way—on both observed short- and long- term outco...
Bishwajit Bhowmik, Sanjida Binte Munir, Lien My Diep, Tasnima Siddiquee et al.
AIMS/INTRODUCTION: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the predictive ability of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and body fat percentages (BF%) for the presence of cardiometabolic risk factors, namely type 2 diabetes (D...
M. A. Baqui Khalily, Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad
The recent past has witnessed phenomenal growth in MFIs around the world. Today as many as 200 million people are beneficiaries of microfinance. Given its worldwide attention, microfinance has received serious criticism, including the argument that it is a fad with less-than-expected benefits for th...