ABSTRACT There is a growing recognition that the ultra poor are generally not integrated into the current antipoverty programmes. In this paper, we estimate the long run impacts of a credit plus grant approach, a combination of microcredit, training and some grants, mostly in the form of consumption stipend, on the livelihoods of the ultra poor. Using longitudinal panel data (2012-2016), we show that the intervention increased labour supply, income, and food consumption. We also document .......
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- Writer Name Jinnat Ara Narayan Das Md Kamruzzaman Tasmeen Quayyum
- Published Date Thursday, 04 January 2018
- Country Bangladesh
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Grant vs. Credit Plus Approach to Poverty Reduction: AnEvaluation of BRAC’s Experience with Ultra PoorNarayan C Das, Sibbir Ahmad, Anindita Bhattacharjee, Jinnat Ara and Abdul BayesABSTRACT Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction- Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) programme of BRAC implements two interventions for the ultra-poor: a grant-based support package for specially targeted ultra poor (henceforth STUP support package), and a credit plus grant support package for .......
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- Writer Name Narayan C Das, Sibbir Ahmad, Anindita Bhattacharjee Jinnat Ara and Abdul Bayes
- Published Date Sunday, 13 November 2016
- Country Bangladesh
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Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor? Oriana Bandiera,Robin Burgess,Narayan C Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman Abstract Does the lack of capital and skills drive occupational choice and poverty? We provide evidence from a large scale and long term randomized control trial of a programme that simultaneously provides assets and training to the poorest women in treatment communities in rural Bangladesh. The evaluation tracks 7000 eligible women .......
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- Writer Name Oriana Bandiera,Robin Burgess,Narayan C Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman
- Published Date Sunday, 05 May 2013
- Country Bangladesh
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ABSTRACT: The worlds poorest people lack both capital and skills and are trapped in low return occupations. Whether their economic lives can be transformed by programmes which attempt to tackle both constraints by providing assets and training to enable them to run small businesses is however unknown. To shed light on this issue we conduct a randomized evaluation of an entrepreneurship programme that provides assets and training to the poorest women in rural Bangladesh. We find that .......
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- Writer Name Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan C Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Raniya Shams, and Munshi Sulaiman
- Published Date Wednesday, 02 January 2013
- Country Bangladesh
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This paper aimed to understand the dynamics of participation of the TUP (Targeting the Ultra Poor) members of CFPR (Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction) phase I in the financial market since their graduation from the CFPR programme. The analysis was done using the longitudinal panel data (2002, 2005 and 2008). It has been found that after two years of programme support and provision of some flexibilities in borrowing from BRAC microfinance, the ultra poor can meaningfully .......
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- Writer Name Raniya Shams, Sharif Mahmud and Narayan C Das
- Published Date Sunday, 12 December 2010
- Country Bangladesh
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We develop a framework for assessing community-level development programmes, building upon five related elements that are centrally important: confidence, cohesion, capacity, connections and cash (the five ‘Cs’). We use this framework for evaluating the impacts over a six-year period (2002-2008) of an innovative programme, implemented in rural Bangladesh, which has assisted extremely poor households, literally the poorest of the poor. Asset transfers constitute the centrepiece of this .......
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- Writer Name Anirudh Krishna, Meri Poghosyan and Narayan Das
- Published Date Sunday, 10 October 2010
- Country Bangladesh
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Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) is a BRAC programme targeting the ultra poor households in various locations in the country. This programme targets the women of the bottom deciles of the population. Gram Daridra Bimochan Committee (GDBC) was formed in each programme village to support the beneficiaries. One of the activities of the committee was to arrange free supplementary tutoring for the children of programme beneficiaries. This study aims to explore the present .......
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- Writer Name Rafiath Rashid, Nazia Sharmin, Notan C Dutta, Samir Ranjan Nath
- Published Date Sunday, 08 August 2010
- Country Bangladesh
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BRAC initiated an innovative programme known as Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) in 2002 to address the extreme poverty in Bangladesh. Impact assessment studies on the first phase of CFPR (2002-06) have shown that the programme had significant positive impacts on the livelihoods of the participant households. However, whether this impact on livelihoods is sustainable or not remained the key research question. Based on panel data from three rounds of survey (2002, 2005 and .......
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- Writer Name Narayan C Das, Farzana A Misha
- Published Date Sunday, 06 June 2010
- Country Bangladesh
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