An impact evaluation of the Targeting the Ultra-Poor (TUP) program in Afghanistan suggests that big-push interventions can dramatically reduce poverty in fragile and conflict affected areas. One year after...
Low revenue mobilization capacity stands out as one of the main development challenges in Bangladesh. Improving Bangladesh’s ability to raise tax revenue, and in particular, strengthening the value added...
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty over the past two decades. Yet, the country is among the ten countries with the highest prevalence of malnutrition. About thirty-one percent...
Bangladesh is among most disaster-prone countries in the world. It is susceptible to floods, cyclones and earthquakes. The government of Bangladesh has instituted disaster risk reduction policies and invested...
Despite the growth in insurance sector in the last five years in Bangladesh, still insurance penetration remains very low: less than 1 percent of the population has insurance coverage. A resistant and...
Despite remarkable progress over the past decade, Bangladesh faces challenges in creating sufficient, quality jobs to meet the rapidly growing youth population. The government’s seventh five-year plan...
In Sierra Leone, the empowerment and livelihoods for adolescents (ELA) initiative sought to enhance adolescent girls’ social and economic empowerment by providing life skills training, livelihood training,...
Type: BriefReport#: 138762Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Bandiera,Oriana ;
Buehren,Niklas ;
Goldstein,Markus P. ;
Rasul,Imran ;
Smurra,Andrea
Inadequate feeding practices are often a critical driver of poor nutritional outcomes in children.WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding up to six months of age, after which infants should start receiving...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to augment human intelligence and to radically alter how one access products and services, gather information, make products, and interact. In emerging...
Type: BriefReport#: 141431Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Strusani,Davide ;
Houngbonon,Georges Vivien
Due to the low and flat topography, Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, especially in its coastal zones. From 1980 to 2000, nearly sixty percent of the deaths caused by cyclones worldwide...
Several household-level factors are associated with better nutrition outcomes. These include food access and availability, practices pertaining to food preparation and consumption practices, and Water,...
Since August 2017, more than 745,000 Rohingya fled violence in Myanmar and took shelter in the Teknaf and Ukhia Upazila of Cox’s Bazar district, according to UN estimates. More than half of them are women...
In the last several decades, Bangladesh witnessed a steady decline in forest cover. Largely driven by unsustainable logging, conversion of forest areas into settlements, pastures, croplands, wastelands,...
With 36 percent of the country’s urban population living in Greater Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh has become one of the world’s most densely populated cities. The Dhaka metropolitan has been the country’s...
Changes in economic structures are an essential feature of development. But how are these brought about? A growing body of evidence underscores the transformative role that human and physical capital can...
Type: BriefReport#: 139479Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Martins,Pedro Miguel Gaspar
Under the term “communitization,” in 2002 the state government of Nagaland transferred responsibility for local services to Village Councils and sector specific Committees. In the health sector, Village...
Bangladesh is well placed to play an important role in regional trade as a transit country in South Asia. Geographically, Bangladesh’s location makes the country a gateway to India, Nepal, Bhutan, and...
Many of the enterprises that make up Bangladesh’s dominant nonfarm sector (85 percent of GDP) are located in rural areas (World Bank 2015). Electrifying them can be a major driving force behind economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 139374Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Samad,Hussain A. ;
Portale,Elisa
Approximately forty million people in Bangladesh live in urban areas, and twenty-one percent of them live below the poverty line. Rapid urban growth has put considerable burden on urban infrastructure,...
In South Asia, Bangladesh continues to witness one of the most rapid and unplanned urbanization. Yet, the cities, especially the district towns and municipalities offer inadequate infrastructure and low...
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