Syed Hashemi, Sidney Ruth Schuler, Ann P. Riley
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi, Ann P. Riley, Shireen Akhter
Although violence by men against women in Bangladesh occurs in most cases within the home, in a larger sense it does not originate in the home nor persist only within the home. It is simply one element in a system that subordinates women through social norms that define women's place and guide their...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi
This article presents findings of research addressing the question of how women's status affects fertility. The effects on contraceptive use of women's participation in rural credit programs and on their status or level of empowerment were examined. A woman's level of empowerment is defined here as ...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi, Ann P. Riley
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi, Shamsul Huda Badal
Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men's violence against women in the home, women's economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men's violence...
Geoffrey Wood, Iffath Anwar Sharif
Part I Overview: poverty and finance in Bangladesh - a new policy agenda, Iffath Sharif poverty and well-being - problems for poverty reduction in role of credit, Martin Greeley finance for the poor or poorest? - financial innovation, poverty and vulnerability, David Hulme and Paul Mosley the politi...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi, Shamsul Huda Badal
Rajesh Sharma, Hedayat Abbastabar, Deldar Morad Abdulah, Hassan Abidi et al.
Background: Cancers represent a challenging public health threat in Asia. This study examines the temporal patterns of incidence, mortality, disability and risk factors of 29 cancers in Asia in the last three decades. Methods: The age, sex and year-wise estimates of incidence, mortality, and disabil...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi, Amy Cullum, Mirza Hassan
In Bangladesh family planning has broadened women's space within the family and society. Based on findings from ethnographic research in six villages, this paper describes how family planning came to be defined as a domain in which women are encouraged to take initiative, in contrast to other sphere...
Sanjay Sinha, Stephen Rasmussen, Amit Brar, Frances Sinha et al.
In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing poverty conditions among its vast rural population. Astonishing growth rates in Bangladesh, particularly during 1990s, created a new dimension for microfinance worldwide as microfinanc...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi
Results of this recent study in rural Bangladesh suggest that programs that draw women out of their homes and reduce their dependence on men are contributing to greater use of contraception. One such program, Grameen Bank, now has female members in nearly half of all Bangladesh villages. Participati...
J. I. H. McDonald
1. Introduction. Introduction, James H. McDonald. 2. Roles. An Appropriate Role for Postcolonial Applied Anthropologists, Laura Thompson. Public Interest Anthropology, Laura Nader. 3. Ethics. Ethnographic Lessons from Central America, Philippe Bourgois. Informed Consent in Anthropological Research: ...
David Lawson, David Hulme, Imran Matin, Karen Moore
Prelims (Preface, Foreword - Ravi Kanbu, Contributors) 1. What works for the poorest? David Hulme and David Lawson Part A: Creating knowledge about the poorest 2. Pro-poorest growth: A National Household Survey Approach Umar Serajuddin, Hassan Zaman and Ambar Narayan 3. A 'Q-squared' approach to enh...
Aude de Montesquiou, Mayada El-Zoghbi, Syed Hashemi
People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from microfinance. Their income is usually too low and unreliable to permit repayment of loans or investment in anything but basic food consumption. In some countries the very poor are served by safety net pr...