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The Hidden Social Costs of...

View Document By Takia Islam Toma The “Hidden Social...

Qualitative Impact Report of the...

View Document By Takia Islam Toma and Sadia...

The Hidden Social Costs of International Migration in Bangladesh

View Document By Takia Islam Toma The “Hidden Social Costs of International Migration in Bangladesh” study examines the economic benefits and less visible social consequences of international migration. It highlights that migration and remittances make important contributions to Bangladesh’s economic development by increasing household income, supporting consumption, reducing poverty, strengthening foreign exchange reserves, and facilitating investment in education and healthcare. However, the study finds that migration also creates significant challenges for migrants and their families, including occupational hazards, declining health, mental health and psychosocial difficulties, family separation, and social isolation. It...

An Analysis of...

View Document This study attempts to provide an understanding of how the process of institutional change influences the outcomes of interventions. To better understand the...

An Overview of...

View Document The phrase ‘rural Bangladesh’ no longer means what it once did. We believe it to be out of date as the distinction between...

Affordability to Finance...

View Document Trapped in the realm between market failure and social justice, Bangladesh’s objective of alleviating poverty is marred by its inability to mobilize enough...

Accessing and Retaining...

View Document A variety of means and mechanisms have been recommended to assist with the implementation of projects aimed at allowing the extreme poor to...

Access to Education...

View Document The paper explores the linkages between ‘Education’ and ‘Poverty’ and the possibility of poverty reduction through better employment opportunities. The paper proceeds with...

Rural Poverty Dynamics...

View Document This report addresses the recent dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh with particular focus on two groups of the poorest - the chronically...

New Statistics: 25...

View Document This year two major reports came out of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) which, when put together, tell a story about the...

Conditional Cash Transfers...

View Document COnditiOnal Cash transfers (CCts) are prOgrams that transfer cash, generally to poor households, on the condition that those households make prespecified investments in...

Successful Targeting? Reporting...

View Document Economic, moral and political reasons may underlie the choice between targeting and universal models of social provision. In the debate about universal versus...