Ce rapport présente des informations sur les contraintes de crédit auxquelles les ménages ruraux pauvres doivent faire face. Les données sont issues d’enquêtes détaillées, menées par l’IFPRI et ses collaborateurs dans neuf pays d’Asie et d’Afrique (Bangladesh, Cameroun, Chine, Egypte, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Népal et Pakistan). Ces informations sont utilisées pour proposer des interventions
publiques appropriées permettant de renforcer les marchés financiers ruraux ; les secteurs où les ressources publiques peuvent être utilisées au mieux sont identifiés.
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Despite the Green Revolution’s dramatic success in increasing South Asia’s agricultural production, almost one quarter of the region’s population remains undernourished. The 2007–08 food price spike has further aggravated this problem. In the face of both ongoing and new challenges to food security, Liberalizing Foodgrains Markets identifies policies for countering undernourishment in the region.
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This paper assesses long-term impacts of vegetable and polyculture fish production technologies on a variety of measures of household and individual well-being in Bangladesh. In 1996–1997, households were surveyed in three sites where nongovernmental organizations and extension programs were disseminating agricultural technologies—about two to six years after the technologies were first introduced. The same households were reinterviewed in 2006–2007.
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(New York) - The Bangladesh authorities' forced closing of a daily newspaper linked to the political opposition and the detention of its editor appear to have violated both freedom of expression and due process, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Here's a listing of some of UNHCR's latest publications:Evaluation:Changing the Way UNHCR Does Business? An Evaluation of the Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming Strategy, PDES/2010/08 (June 2010) [text]No Entry! A Review of UNHCR's Response to Border Closures in Situations of Mass Refugee Influx, PDES/2010/07 (June 2010) [text]Health:Inter-agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings: 2010 Revision for Field Review (Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, June 2010) [text]UNHCR Field Brief: Community-based approach to improve access to prevention of mother-to-child transmission programmes in Dukwi refugee camp, Botswana (June 2010) [text]UNHCR Field Brief: Improving maternal care in Dadaab refugee camps, Kenya (June 2010)...
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This paper explores the long-term effects of a set of development interventions within the life trajectories of people in rural Bangladesh, using findings from 293 life-history interviews and an accompanying set of focus group discussions conducted in 2007. The paper uses various methods to address the challenge of assessing the long-term impact of development interventions. It then goes on to discuss what was learned about the impact of microfinance, educational transfer, and agricultural technology development programs from the life-history narratives.
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Climate Change, Environment, and Migration (Climate-L.org, June 2010) [text]Climate Refugees in Bangladesh – Answering the Basics: The Where, How, Who and How Many (Displacement Solutions, May 2010) [text]Justice at Risk: quality and value for money in asylum legal aid - Interim Report (ICAR & RMJ, June 2010) [text]No going back: Lesbian and gay people and the asylum system (Stonewall, 2010) [text]Serbia: Stop the forced evictions of Roma settlements (Amnesty International, June 2010) [text]Tagged...
Bangladesh is concentrating efforts to achieve food and nutrition security for its people. The facts, figures, and analysis underlying this new push are now available online.
IFPRI and other internationally recognized experts prepared six research papers, one for each priority area identified by the government and discussed at the May 26-27 Bangladesh Food Security Investment Forum.
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Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Honorable Ministers, Honorable Secretaries, Members of the Diplomatic Corp, Distinguished Representatives and Delegates from International and Regional Organizations, Distinguished Guests, and Ladies and Gentlemen:
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This paper investigates the long-term impact of Bangladesh’s Primary Education Stipend (PES) program on a range of individual and household welfare measures using a unique longitudinal study spanning the years 2000 to 2006. Using covariate and propensity score matching and difference-in-difference methods, the program is shown to have negligible impacts on school enrollments, household expenditures, calorie consumption, and protein consumption.
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Biharis in Bangladesh: Inching Toward Integration (Worldbridge Blog, April 2010) [text]Children and Armed Conflict: A Guide to International Humanitarian and Human Rights (International Bureau for Children's Rights, 2010) [text]Ex-combatants, Returnees, Land and Conflict in Liberia, Working Paper, no. 5 (DIIS, 2010) [text]Safety with dignity: Integrating community based protection into humanitarian programming, Network Paper, no. 68 (HPN, March 2010) [text]Why Being Able to Return Home Should be Part of Transitional Justice: Urban IDPs in Kampala and their Quest for a Durable Solution, Working Paper, no. 2 (Beyond Juba, March 2010) [text]Tagged...
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(New York) - The Bangladeshi government should reject amendments that would restrict the ability of the Anti-Corruption Commission to take independent action against corrupt government officials, including those in the governing party, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(New York) - The government of Bangladesh should allow a photo exhibit about extrajudicial executions in Dhaka to go ahead as planned, Human Rights Watch said today. Barring the exhibit from opening was a serious violation of freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said. There have been hundreds of such killings in Bangladesh.
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(New York) - The Bangladeshi government should charge or release members of Bangladesh's border guards who have been held since the massacre of senior army officers and others a year ago, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Bangladesh will receive a 100 million dollar loan from the World Bank to fund clean energy activities. Most of the money will be spent on the government's solar energy programs, the remainder of the loan money will be used to purchase CFL light bulbs.From Reuters, we read more details about the program. The government plans to finance installation of 1.0 million solar panels over the next couple of years and will distribute about 27.5 million low-wattage CFL bulbs across the country."It is a massive programme for the government and will not be possible to implement without financial support from our development partners like the World Bank," said the official at the economic relations division of the finance ministry.The state-run Rural Electrification Board and Infrastructure Development...
Natural disasters have particularly devastating impacts on economic growth in developing countries because they impede the accumulation of capital. The resilience of labor markets is crucial especially for the poor who rely only on labor to diversify their income portfolio and buffer against risk. Such a risk management strategy may become more challenging as global climate change increases the frequency of natural disasters. We use the Bangladesh Flood Impact panel household survey to evaluate how the 1998 “flood of the century” affected wages in Bangladesh.
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"Cultural Culprits," Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Forthcoming (SSRN, updated 2010) [text]- In part, explores "the adjudication of asylum claims based on 'cultural persecution'."The Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, March 2010) [text]- Speech to the Human Rights Council upon presenting final annual report as Representative of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons.Natural Disasters, Conflict, and Human Rights: Tracing the Connections (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, March 2010) [text]Stateless and Starving: Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh (Physicians for Human Rights, March 2010) [text]Syria: The Road to Third Country Resettlement for...
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Film: "6 Billion Others: Climate Voices" (GoodPlanet, 2010?) [access via Towards Recognition]- Film project featuring "testimonies...gathered from every continent, where the population is directly affected by climate change."Film: Europe or Die Trying - The Series (BBC, 2009) [access]- Three part documentary series on African migrants attempting to reach Europe.Photos: "Showcase: Exiled by Weather" (NYT, Feb. 2010) [access]- Photos of communities in Eastern Africa displaced by climate change.Video: "Forced to Flee - Chapter 7: Haiti's Homeless Hotel" (IRIN, Feb. 2010) [access]- Latest addition to IRIN's series of short films on internal displacement.Video: "In Low-Lying Bangladesh, the Sea Takes a Human Toll" (Yale Environment 360, 2010?) [access via Towards Recognition]- Video reports...
Agency Learning Network on the Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Countries (CPC Learning Network) [site]- "The goal of the CPC Learning Network is to further strengthen and to systematize child care and protection through the collaborative action of humanitarian organizations, local institutions, and academic partners." See esp. the bibliography and full-text document library under "resources."Haiti: The 2010 Earthquake in Haiti [site]- "This Crisis Map of Haiti represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date crisis map available to the humanitarian community. The information here is mapped in near real time and gathered from reports coming from inside Haiti via: SMS, Web, Email, Radio, Phone, Twitter, Facebook, Television, List-serves, Live streams, Situation...
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The Asia Pacific Refugee Research Network (APRRN) now has an official web site. The aim of the network is to "advance the rights of refugees in the Asia Pacific region." Working groups focus on different geographic regions (South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Australia/Pacific) and different thematic issues (detention, legal aid and advocacy, women and girls at risk, right to health, and international advocacy).One focus of the APRRN's has been the treatment of refugees from Myanmar, the largest populations of which are in Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh and India, and include ethnic Rohingya, Chin and Karen. Several reports have been issued recently that look more closely at their situation, particularly that of the Rohingya in Bangladesh:Burma: Rohingya A Year Later (World...
The search for an estimate of the optimal stock of public foodgrain has been a constant and intense demand from donors and policymakers in Bangladesh. The meaning of optimality has, however, remained different to different persons. A general perception in these debates is that there may be a precise figure that represents the optimal level of public stock. Optimality implies minimization of cost or maximization of net gains in achieving an objective.
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This paper uses a longitudinal data set from rural Bangladesh to analyze the factors that affect men’s and women’s ability to participate in groups and to engage in relationships with powerful and influential people. Unlike studies from other countries that find group membership to be positively correlated with wealth, this study finds that group membership, which is driven mostly by women’s membership in NGOs, is progressive, with higher participation rates among the poor and those with smaller sizes of owned land.
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Bangladesh has some social safety net programs that transfer food to the poor, some that transfer cash, and some that provide a combination of both. This study evaluates the relative impacts of food and cash transfers on food security and livelihood outcomes among the ultra poor in Bangladesh. The programs impacts are evaluated according to various measures, including how well transfers are delivered; which transfers beneficiaries prefer; how accurately the programs target the extremely poor; effects on food security, livelihoods, and women’s empowerment; and cost effectiveness.
Comparing food and cash incentives for schooling in Bangladesh
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The journal 'Information Science Today' features three articles about agricultural libraries in Bangladesh:Networking of Agricultural Information Systems in Bangladesh (BD-AGRINET): A ModelThe role of Libraries for the development of human resources in the field of Agriculture in BangladeshLibrary automation: A study of the AIC, BANSDOC and the National libraries of Bangladesh...
Experts are calling on Bangladesh to improve social security for the quickly growing elderly population in the country. From IRIN we take a look at the problem for the country that has 6 percent of it's population at the age 60 or older. With a growing number of older people and a large impoverished population, Bangladesh needs to improve social security support for the country’s most vulnerable groups, experts say. Over 6 percent of the population or 7.2 million people are aged 60 or over, according to the last census in 2001. About 80,000 people are added to this older population every year, which is projected to be over 17 million people by 2025, growing at a rate faster than that of Europe’s, according to government officials.However, most of these older people and many of the...
New reports show that 56 percent of Bangladeshi children live in poverty. UNICEF says that amounts to 33 million children.The UNICEF study also has some unique ways of measuring poverty. The report separates needs such as sanitation, shelter and nutrition into different categories. This helps to show how many children lack access to one particular need. From IRIN, we read more about the UNICEF study. Over half of Bangladesh’s children are living in poverty and there is widespread deprivation amongst them in the basic areas of food, sanitation and shelter, with limited ability to escape their circumstances, according to experts.A new report by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Bangladesh found that 33 million children under 18 - around 56 percent of the child population - are...
Bangladesh has made notable progress in achieving food security, despite extreme population pressures, limited land resources, and an agrarian structure dominated by small and tenant farmers. After two decades of sluggish performance prior to the late 1980s, the production of rice—the dominant staple food—has increased much faster than the population.
Highlights from Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development
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A critical yet often overlooked component of food security is diet quality. Even households who have access to sufficient amounts of food and calories may still lack essential micronutrients, increasing their risk for both short- and long-term health and development consequences. Interventions that address poor diet quality and related deficiencies of vitamin A, zinc, iron, among others, are important for achieving full food security in vulnerable populations.
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