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  • Seasonality of rural finance (Inglês)

    Simultaneity of borrowing, withdrawal of savings, and loan defaults due to the pronounced seasonality of ag-riculture often leads to investment failure of rural financial institutions. Lack of borrowing...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS7986 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.,Badruddoza,Syed

  • Dynamics of rural growth in Bangladesh : sustaining poverty reduction (Inglês)

    The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 103244 Data do documento: 17 de maio de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Gautam,Madhur,Faruqee,Rashidur R.,Ahmed,Md Mansur,Shilpi,Forhad J.,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Ahmed, S. Amer,Verissimo,Patrick,Kar,Anuja,Chellaraj,Gnanaraj

  • Surge in solar-powered homes : experience in off-grid rural Bangladesh (Inglês)

    Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in raising living standards and reducing poverty, particularly in previously lagging regions. Rapid solar home system (SHS) expansion in Bangladesh to some 3 million...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 91349 Data do documento: 8 de outubro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Haque,Abul Kalam Enamul,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Sadeque,Zubair K.M.,Samad,Hussain A.,Yunus,Mohammad,Asaduzzaman,Mohammed

  • Does institutional finance matter for agriculture ? evidence using panel data from Uganda (Inglês)

    Smallholder agriculture in many developing countries has remained largely self-financed. However, improved productivity for attaining greater food security requires better access to institutional credit...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6942 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Koolwal,Gayatri B.

  • Dynamic effects of microcredit in Bangladesh (Inglês)

    This paper uses long panel survey data spanning over 20 years to examine the dynamics of microcredit programs in Bangladesh. With the phenomenal growth of microfinance institutions representing 30 million...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6821 Data do documento: 1 de março de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.

  • The benefits of solar home systems :an analysis from Bangladesh (Inglês)

    The Government of Bangladesh, with help from the World Bank and other donors, has provided aid to a local agency called Infrastructure Development Company Limited and its partner organizations to devise...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6724 Data do documento: 1 de dezembro de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Samad,Hussain A.,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Asaduzzaman,T. M.,Yunus,Mohammad

  • Estimating the effects of credit constraints on productivity of Peruvian agriculture (Inglês)

    This paper proposes an estimator for the endogenous switching regression models with fixed effects. The estimator allows for endogenous selection and for conditional heteroscedasticity in the outcome equation...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6658 Data do documento: 1 de outubro de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Woutersen,Tiemen Meerten,Khandker,Shahidur R.

  • Welfare impacts of rural electrification : evidence from Vietnam (Inglês)

    This brief summarizes the welfare impacts of rural electrification: evidence from Vietnam for the period 2000-2004. Access to electricity is a key to any development initiative and there is a growing body...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 81520 Data do documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Barnes,Douglas French,Samad,Hussain A.,Nguyen,Minh Huu

  • Subsidy to promote girls secondary education : the female stipend program in Bangladesh (Inglês)

    The brief summarizes the subsidy to promote girls secondary education: the female stipend program in Bangladesh. The intervention started in 1994. Girl's grade 6-10 received the stipend once a year. Secondary...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 81464 Data do documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Pitt,Mark M.,Fuwa,Nobuhiko

  • The poverty impact of rural roads : evidence from Bangladesh (Inglês)

    This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled The poverty impact of rural roads : evidence from Bangladesh, conducted during the time period 1995 to 1996 in Bangladesh...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 81507 Data do documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Bakht,Zaid,Koolwal,Gayatri B.

  • Are microcredit borrowers in Bangladesh over-indebted ? (Inglês)

    Microcredit programs in Bangladesh have experienced spectacular growth in recent years, with a growing number of borrowers availing credit from multiple microcredit agencies. There is a growing concern...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6574 Data do documento: 1 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Faruqee,Rashidur R.,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.

  • Are microcredit participants in Bangladesh trapped in poverty and debt ? (Inglês)

    This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics have argued in recent years. Analysis of data from a long panel survey over a 20-year...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6404 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.

  • How does competition affect the performance of MFIs ? evidence from Bangladesh (Inglês)

    Over the past 20 years, Bangladesh has witnessed strong competition among microfinance institutions. Using program-level panel data from 2005-2010, this paper studies the microfinance institutions' recent...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: No. do relatório: WPS6408 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Badruddoza, Syed,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Koolwal,Gayatri B.

  • Does access to finance matter in microenterprise growth ? evidence from Bangladesh (Inglês)

    In less-developed economies such as Bangladesh, the farm sector is the major source of employment and income, while the rural nonfarm sector provides as an additional source of income. But the rural nonfarm...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6333 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ali,Rubaba,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.

  • Seasonal hunger and its mitigation in North-West Bangladesh (Inglês)

    Seasonal hunger may result from seasonality of agriculture when households fail to smooth income and consumption. Using household survey data from the northwest region of Bangladesh, this paper examines...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 79391 Data do documento: 20 de novembro de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Khalily,Md. Abdul Baqui,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.

  • The surprising effects of the great recession : losers and winners in Thailand in 2008-2009 (Inglês)

    In 2009, buffeted by the great recession, Thai gross domestic product fell by 2.3 percent. Using monthly data from the socio-economic surveys of 2007-2010, this paper finds, after controlling for household...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6255 Data do documento: 1 de novembro de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Haughton,Jonathan,Khandker,Shahidur R.