By Akhter Ahmed, Country Representative, IFPRI-Bangladesh The latest findings from the 2022 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in December 2023, reveal remarkable reductions in poverty. The official headcount rate for moderate poverty (the proportion of people living below the upper poverty line) decreased by 23.0 per […]
Blog – The impact of marriage timing on women’s agency: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
Early marriage remains a pervasive issue in developing countries, with an estimated 650 million women globally married before the age of 18. This is a particular challenge in South Asia, where the prevalence of child marriage is significantly higher than in other parts of the world, with one third of women between the ages of […]
Publication – Prevalence, trends, and inequality in noncommunicable diseases in Bangladesh
In December 2023, IFPRI researcher Md. Masum Ali and co-authors from Dhaka University and Lund University published the open access article, "Prevalence, trends, and inequality in noncommunicable diseases in Bangladesh: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys 2011 and 2017–2018" in Public Health Challenges. Abstract We investigated the change of the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases […]
Book Chapter – Mobile Money Mitigates the Negative Effects of Weather Shocks
IFPRI researcher Salauddin Tauseef and co-authors published the chapter, “Mobile Money Mitigates the Negative Effects of Weather Shocks: Implications for Risk Sharing and Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh” in a book published by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). The results show that large rainfall shocks negatively affect food and nonfood consumption, but the adoption of […]
Working Paper – Evaluation of a livestock financing project in Bangladesh: Navigating operational, environmental, and behavioral challenges
Smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries have limited access to finance, due to the paucity of banks and other financial institutions in rural areas. As a result, banks and other formal financial institutions tend not to know much about farming as a business, and therefore they hesitate to extend credit to farmers. Such reluctance […]
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