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A Qualitative Study of SWAPNO...

By Sadia Afrin Suvra View Document The “Women’s Empowerment...

Contextualization of the Family Card...

By Sadia Afrin Suvra View Document The “Contextualization of...

A Qualitative Study of SWAPNO Beneficiaries in Cumilla (Draft)

By Sadia Afrin Suvra View Document The “Women’s Empowerment through Livelihoods, Skills and Economic Agency: A Qualitative Study of SWAPNO Beneficiaries in Cumilla” examines how the SWAPNO Project contributes to the economic and social empowerment of vulnerable women through an integrated combination of livelihood support, technical and vocational skills, savings and financial management, health and nutritional awareness, and confidence building. Drawing on field-level evidence from 27 key informant interviews with beneficiaries participating in formal sector training, the study explores changes in women’s economic participation, household decision-making, financial agency, social recognition, wellbeing,...

Reaching the Poorest:...

View Document Microfinance is about extending financial access to poor and excluded people. However, apart from a few notable exceptions, microfinance has not typically reached...

Inclusive Development: Two...

View Document This compendium brings together two companion papers on inclusive development. The first paper uses the global literature to formulate a conceptualisation of inclusive...

Impact of Infrastructures...

View Document The study deals with two questions: what role infrastructures can plan in promoting paid work opportunities for women and what specific type of...

Conceptualizing Chronic Poverty

View Document This paper provides a meaning for the term chronic poverty ‘in a nutshell’ and explores the concepts of poverty, vulnerability and poverty dynamics that...

The World Bank’s...

View Document Is there a conspiracy afoot? Practitioners of social protection have long debated the relative merits of conditional and unconditional cash transfers. Now the...

Building Resilience –...

View Document How do poor families manage to have enough to eat even in very difficult circumstances? When faced with shocks and economic stress, why...

Social Protection for...

View Document Social protection is fast becoming one of the most important themes in development policy. This collection examines the political processes shaping the formulation...

Poverty Dynamics: Measurement...

View Document This paper introduces a significant new multi-disciplinary collection of studies of poverty dynamics, presenting the reader with the latest thinking by a group...

Building Resilience and...

View Document Although the current crisis has proved to be to remedy, it has taught us that ... while the policy mix will vary...