The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last … four decades, but there is a dearth of literature studying how to meaningfully assess poverty with an ordinal variable …. This paper first proposes a class of simple, intuitive and policy-relevant poverty measures for ordinal variables. These …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …, invest in children's schooling, and be lifted out of poverty. This is not to say that non-participants have failed to … of poverty reduction have been higher for participants. Testing the net effect of microcredit programs requires applying …

This summary report presents the findings of the Bangladesh WASH Poverty Diagnostic (BWPD) study led by the World Bank …'s Water and Poverty Global Practices. Though very few Bangladeshis now fetch water from rivers or defecate in fields, the vast … snapshot of the quality and inequality of WASH access by generating statistics from numerous datasets. BWPD also attempts to …

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, notes that Bangladesh offers us many lessons in ending extreme poverty … women is essential to ending extreme poverty. Leaders arrived at the logical conclusion that countries can never reach their … can accomplish feats that few dared imagine. Bangladesh can continue to build on this record and can end extreme poverty …

Bangladesh has an inspiring story of reducing poverty and advancing development. Since 2000, the country has reduced … poverty by half. In the last decade and a half, it lifted more than 25 million out of poverty. The country's economy remained … robust and resilient even in the face of many challenges. All sectors of the economy have contributed to poverty reduction …

Bangladesh has an inspiring story of reducing poverty and advancing development. Since 2000, the country has reduced … poverty by half. In the last decade and a half, it lifted more than 25 million out of poverty. The country's economy remained … robust and resilient even in the face of many challenges. All sectors of the economy have contributed to poverty reduction …

is positive assortative matching by socio-economic status. A reduction in poverty enables households to engage more in …