This paper uses a unique data set on 143,000 poor households from Northern Bangladesh to analyze the effects of … microfinance membership on a household's ability to cope with seasonal famine known as Monga. We develop an estimation strategy … repayment by excluding the ultra-poor. Evidence shows that microfinance membership improves food security during Monga …

This paper uses a unique data set on 150,000 ultrapoor households in Bangladesh to analyze whether microfinance helps …) that corrects for endogeneity bias without exclusion restrictions. The empirical results suggest that microfinance improves … of the poor. Evidence is strong that microfinance helps households to avoid distress sale of labor, and reduces the …

effectiveness of sectoral interventions, and how the interventions in the agricultural sector and microfinance can be used to … agriculture sector and microcredit programmes in Bangladesh and around the world, how they were implemented and to the extent … work. Chapter two assesses the status of malnutrition in Bangladesh, provides a brief history of policies and programmes to …

assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22 …

household survey data from the north-west region of Bangladesh, this article examines alternative measures of seasonal hunger …

challenge of addressing seasonal hunger. Chapter three brings Bangladesh's reality to the fore regarding seasonal poverty and … deprivation. In chapter seven, the impact of the social safety-net programs is tested, whereas the effectiveness of microfinance …