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What Makes Microcredit Programmes Effective? Fashionable Fallacies and Workable Realities

Published by: IDS

There is an influential, orthodox explanation of the success of large scale micro-credit programmes, based particularly on interpretations of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. There are three core elements: the alleged importance of strong social bonds among small borrower groups; the notion of substantial borrower participation in management; and the belief in the centrality of charging unsubsidised rates of interest.

Subsidy or Self-respect? Participatory Total Community Sanitation in Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

A new approach being pioneered by the author (Dr Kamal Kar, Social and Participatory Development Consultant from Calcutta, India) with Village Education Resource Centre (VERC), Water Aid in Bangladesh and other agencies concentrates on empowering local people to analyse the extent and risk of environmental pollution caused by open defecation, and to construct toilets without any external subsidies.

Making Rights Work for the Poor: Nijera Kori and the Construction of Collective Capabilities in Rural Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

Whilst there is a formal commitment to rights in Bangladesh, spelt out in its constitution, its legal framework and its ratification of various international conventions on rights, the reality for its citizens is one of violations as much as the observance of rights.

Making rights work for the poor : Nijera Kori and the construction of “collective capabilities” in rural Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

Whilst there is a formal commitment to rights in Bangladesh, spelt out in its constitution, its legal framework and its ratification of...

Subsidy or self-respect? : Participatory total community sanitation in Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

Access to latrines in rural areas of Bangladesh is less than 15 per cent. Many international agencies and non-governmental...

Opportunities and Challenges in Agriculture and Garments: A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Bangladesh Economy

Published by: International Food Policy Research Institute

National Budgets, Social Spending and Public Choices: The Case of Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

This exploratory study looks at the factors shaping the formulation and implementation of national budgets in Bangladesh with an emphasis on the determinants of public social spending.

The Politics of Educational Expansion in Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

This paper offers an interpretation of why Bangladesh has so successfully expanded educational access. Part of the explanation of these successes lies in domestic politics: the argument here is that educational expansion in Bangladesh is most valuably understood as part of processes of nation- and state-building.

Changing Organisations for Agricultural Extension in Bangladesh: Strategies for Change

The paper by David and Mancini documents the struggle to institutionalize the new system and the extraordinary changes that it has engendered.

Policy Processes for Community Based Fisheries Management in Bangladesh

Organisational Learning - Background Information Organisational learning, in which leaders and managers give priority to learning as integral to practice, is increasingly recognized as critical to improved performance.