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Publication - Policy Brief
Scarcity at the end of the month: A field experiment with garment factory workers in Bangladesh
Dealing with sudden, unpredicted financial costs such as health expenses or unemployment poses a particular challenge for people living in the poorest households, whose income often barely allows them to get by. In Bangladesh, many garment factory workers struggle to make their incomes stretch until the next payday, forcing them to seek credit, often from informal...
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Project
The impact on cities of a large-scale rural migration programme in Bangladesh
Seasonal hunger is perhaps the biggest challenge to the reduction of global poverty that has remained largely under the radar. About three hundred million of the world’s rural population live above the poverty line but still suffer from seasonal income insecurity, which occurs between planting and harvest when the demand for agricultural labour falls and the price of food...
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Publication - Working Paper
Poverty and migration in the digital age: Experimental evidence on mobile banking in Bangladesh
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Blog post
Microfinance in Bangladesh: Flexibility, growth and client type
Increased loan flexibility for clients with a good credit history improves client satisfaction and socio-economic status. It also attracts highly productive entrepreneurs who want to expand their business to take a loan, making this approach a win-win. Microfinance has been heralded as an effective pro-poor policy instrument to ease the problem of credit rationing....
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Publication - Working Paper
Electronic filing system, bureaucratic efficiency and public service delivery: Evidence from Bangladesh
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Case Study: Firms
Transforming the lives of the ultra-poor
In a long running evaluation, we found that a ground breaking 'graduation' programme is highly effective in lifting households out of extreme poverty.
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Case Study: State
No lean season: Migration to escape seasonal famine
Our randomised experiment incentivised rural Bangladeshis to migrate temporarily to cities during the annual ‘lean season’, impacting consumption and migration rates.
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Publication - Project Report
Review of national accounts estimation in Bangladesh: A stocktaking exercise
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Case Study: Public Sector and Tax
Incentives for better tax collection
Research shows that incentives – such as performance pay for tax collectors and naming and shaming tax-evading firms – can significantly increase revenue.