Microenterprises diversify economic
activity and contribute significantly to poverty
alleviation. In Bangladesh, half of population depend for
livelihoods on 7 million...
Since August 25, 2017, violence in
Rakhine state, Myanmar, has driven more than 745,000 people
from the Rohingya community cross the border into the Cox’s
Bazar district...
With ninety-three percent population
having access to electricity, Bangladesh has significantly
increased electricity generation capacity. Yet, its
per-capita electricity...
The inland water transportation sector
can play an important role in improving domestic
connectivity and regional integration. As a riverine
country, Bangladesh has...
This brief contains the economic
highlights of Indonesia as of July 1, 2019. Inflation in
June 2019 was recorded at 0.55 percent, or 2.05 percent ytd
and 3.28 percent...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
Despite remarkable progress over the
past decade, Bangladesh faces challenges in creating
sufficient, quality jobs to meet the rapidly growing youth
population. The...
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...
In Sierra Leone, the empowerment and
livelihoods for adolescents (ELA) initiative sought to
enhance adolescent girls’ social and economic empowerment by
providing life...
Type: BriefReport#: 138762Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Bandiera,Oriana ;
Buehren,Niklas ;
Goldstein,Markus P. ;
Rasul,Imran ;
Smurra,Andrea
Artificial intelligence (AI) has
enormous potential to augment human intelligence and to
radically alter how one access products and services, gather
information, make...
Type: BriefReport#: 141431Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Strusani,Davide ;
Houngbonon,Georges Vivien
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...
Several household-level factors are
associated with better nutrition outcomes. These include
food access and availability, practices pertaining to food
preparation and...
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...
Under the term “communitization,” in
2002 the state government of Nagaland transferred
responsibility for local services to Village Councils and
sector specific Committees....
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...
Type: BriefReport#: 139479Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Martins,Pedro Miguel Gaspar
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....
In the last several decades, Bangladesh
witnessed a steady decline in forest cover. Largely driven
by unsustainable logging, conversion of forest areas into
settlements,...
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