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Group Photos

27 May 2024
Participants, organizers, and speakers at Grand Sultan Tea Resort & Golf, Srimongal

VIDEO Day 2 Session 2 SASEC Experience

6 September 2023
Individual SASEC countries have pursued the development of economic corridors as a major tool for bringing economic transformation and promoting inclusive growth. Under the SASEC program, ECD has featured prominently in pursuit of synergies among SASEC members, involving the development of…

VIDEO Day 1 Session 2 CAREC Experience and Wrapup

5 September 2023
Recording of the sub- session that aims to share CAREC’s experience on ECD, and discuss lessons, challenges and opportunities in implementing the Guidance Note on ECD in CAREC. Also include the Wrap-up for Day 1.

PHOTO GALLERY International Financial Institutions Transport Sector Business Opportunities Seminar in South Asia IFI BOS

17 March 2021
Photo Gallery: International Financial Institutions Transport Sector BOS (IFI BOS)

VIDEO The Impact of COVID19 and Government Lockdown on Childrens Schooling Time Use and Marriage Timing in Rural Bangladesh

17 November 2020
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor in developing countries is increasingly becoming a matter of concern. The poor seem more vulnerable to the COVID-19 infection given a congested and unhygienic environment, and its insufficient treatment in a poor medical system. Not only these direct…

VIDEO Fighting Against Learning Crisis in Developing Countries A Randomized Experiment of Self Learning at the Right Level

17 November 2020
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a globally popular method of self-learning at the right level in improving learning outcome — the cognitive and non-cognitive abilities — of disadvantaged pupils in a developing country, Bangladesh. Using a randomized control trial design, we find…

VIDEO Conditional Cash Transfer Loss Framing and SMS Nudges Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment in Bangladesh

17 November 2020
Cash transfers conditional on school attendance have gained increasing popularity over the past couple of decades. This study seeks to shed light on two issues that may complement such conditional cash transfers (CCTs): (i) loss framing of awards and (ii) SMS information nudges. SMS information…

VIDEO Does Commitment Savings Alter Seasonal Poverty Dynamics among the Ultrapoor Evidence from Highfrequency Data

17 November 2020
While the seasonal dimension of poverty is well discussed, little is known about its degree and countermeasure for the ultra-poor population. Using unique bi-weekly data for 10months over two years from rural Bangladesh, we first show that consumption of the year round ultra-poor is subject to…

VIDEO Impact of Floods on Education Outcomes Evidence from Bangladesh Using Satellite and Census Data

17 November 2020
We examine the impact of floods on education outcomes in Bangladesh. We combine the census data of all secondary schools with the flood measures constructed from satellite images at the union level (lowest administrative unit) for the years 2011-2018. We find that passing rates of school based…

VIDEO Nudging by Beauty Improving Womens Health1 Decisions and Wellbeing in the Field

17 November 2020
Health interventions often show limited effectiveness in influencing behavior as they fail to take into account the choice architecture. To shed light on how to improve health interventions, we evaluate a unique intervention in rural Bangladesh that highlights the importance of health, hygiene,…