,000 households in Bangladesh to examine the nature of shocks experienced by households over the preceding 12 months and the type of …

-crisis household data. The approach is then applied to Bangladesh to assess the potential impact of the slowdown on poverty and income … distribution across different groups and regions. A validation exercise using past data from Bangladesh finds that the model … monitoring tools and policies in Bangladesh, and also illustrate the kind of analysis that is possible in other developing …

Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a …

2004 survey of some 2,300 households in rural Bangladesh, this paper studies the welfare impacts of household energy use … poverty line, the paper finds that some 58 percent of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor, compared with 45 percent …

Seasonal poverty in Bangladesh, locally known as monga, refers to seasonal deprivation of food during the pre … targeted poor to contain income seasonality and poverty in this impoverished part of Bangladesh. …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …

This paper analyzes the patterns of and the challenges for youth employment in Pakistan and examines whether these … many of the challenges to youth employment in Pakistan are not youth-specific. Policies should thus emphasize broader labor …

The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was …