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 …

countries. To promote a better understanding of IAP, the authors investigate the determinants of IAP in Bangladesh using the … poor families in Bangladesh. Concentrations of respirable airborne particulates(PM10) 300 ug/m3 or greater are common in … the sample, implying widespread exposure to a serious health hazard. Poor households in Bangladesh depend heavily on wood …

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