Poverty and Health
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Marital disruption: determinants and consequences on the lives of women in a rural area of Bangladesh
This study, carried out during the second half of 1995, investigated the predisposing factors leading to marital disruption and its consequences on the lives of women in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh. Both qualitative ... -
Intimate partner violence against women: experiences from a woman-focused development programme in Matlab, Bangladesh
This paper explores the association between microcredit-based development programmes and domestic violence against women perpetrated by their husbands. A sub-set of cross-sectional data collected in 1999 from 60 BRAC-ICDDR,B study villages in... -
A multidimensional approach to measure poverty in rural Bangladesh
Poverty is increasingly being understood as a multidimensional phenomenon. Other than income-consumption, which has been extensively studied in the past, health, education, shelter, and social involvement are among the most important dimensio...
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- Ahmed, Syed Masud 3
- Bhuiya, Abbas 3
- Chowdhury, A. Mushtaque R. 3
- Wahed, Tania 2
- Abbas Uddin, Bhuiya 1
- Aziz, K.M.A. 1
- Curlin, George T. 1
- Khan, M.R. 1
- Khatun, Mohsina 1
- Mahmood, Shehrin Shaila 1
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- Bangladesh 5
- Poverty 3
- Rural Population 3
- Socioeconomic Factors 2
- Age Factors 1
- Asset index 1
- Battered Women 1
- Battered Women-statistics & numer... 1
- Chakaria 1
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