It is now well recognised that regular microcredit intervention is not enough to effectively
reach the ultra poor in rural Bangladesh, in fact it actively excludes them for structural …

Background: Poor psychosocial health is a major global burden. A challenge to improving
psychosocial health is that its associations with risk factors are complicated, inadequately …

In this chapter we argue that the potential of microfinance as a tool of poverty alleviation is
both underimagined and overimagined. It is overimagined as a near panacea of poverty …

The concept of social exclusion, applied widely in the European Union, has in recent years
been gaining use in Bangladesh, mostly by international development agencies. Does this …

Bangladesh is often lauded as a development miracle. The country has survived
insurmountable challenges–a brutal civil war; unstable political regimes; periods of …

2. Le travail de BRAC dans ce domaine a évolué au fil des ans, du premier programme
intitulé Income Generation for Vulnerable Group Development (IGVGD) à sa version la plus …

Chronic poverty among women is a major concern for development practitioners and policy
makers worldwide. Today, a common tool used to tackle this issue is microfinance. Yet the …

Targeting the ultra poor (TUP) is an integrated, grant-based, anti-poverty intervention in rural
Bangladesh. It combines productive asset grants (mainly livestock), confidence building …