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Recovery with distress: Unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in Bangladesh

Rahman, Hussain Zillur; Rahman, Atiya; Faruk, Md. Saiful; … - 2022

The social and ecomomic impact of COVID-19 has been deep, wide-ranging, and multidimensional. While anecdotal evidence of distress among the poor, particularly those with informal occupations, has been widespread, effective policy response has required real-time, researched data disaggregated...

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Improving donor support for urban poverty reduction

Banks, Nicola - 2011

The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia … mechanisms for urban poverty reduction, as discussed here. Where there have been successes in improved service delivery for the … provision. New forms of partnership will be required. For greater progress in urban poverty reduction to be made, however, the …

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Contested relationships: Women's economic and social empowerment, insights from the transfer of material assets in Bangladesh

Scott, Lucy - 2012

poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the …

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Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19

Barker, Nathan; Davis, C. Austin; López-Peña, Paula; … - 2020

Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. We create pre- and post-COVID panel datasets for three populations in Bangladesh and Nepal, leveraging experimental and observational variation in prior migration...

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries

Rönkkö, Risto; Rutherford, Stuart; Sen, Kunal - 2021

In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihoods of the poor. We use an unusually rich data set from a 'financial diaries' study known as the Hrishipara Daily Diaries Project. The data set tracks the economic and financial transactions of 60 individuals...

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