CPRC Partners

CPRC research in Bangladesh is carried out in partnership with the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in Dhaka, on the Programme of Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh (PRCPB).

The focus of development in Bangladesh has shifted to the poorest people and those in chronic poverty. This is partly a response to the evidence that interventions for the poorest have not pushed them out of extreme poverty. The CPRC partnership in Bangladesh has produced policy-relevant research on chronic poverty that has been shared with government, donors and civil society.

Research

CRPC research in Bangladesh has focused on the impact of government and NGO policies and programmes for the poorest, and conducting poverty dynamics panel surveys to inform policymakers on the causes of, and solutions to, movements into and out of poverty.

In 2000, the conference on What Works for the Poorest? Knowledge, Policies and Practices, highlighted research on how to finance extreme poverty. A 2010 book on What works for the Poorest has arisen out of this body of work.

The CPRC is an institutional member of the PRSP monitoring committee in Bangladesh. Bangladesh research continues to focus on the MDG monitoring process and evaluating the impact of PRSPs. A State of the Poorest report will be produced to influence the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and large NGO's (especially BRAC). 

Key resources

Chronic poverty in Bangladesh

• The State of the Poorest in Bangladesh: tales of ascent, descent, marginality and persistence
  ^{Chronic poverty report}
• Maternal Health, Child Well-being and Intergenerationally Transmitted Chronic Poverty: Does Women's Agency Matter?
• ^{CPRC Bangladesh Working Paper 8}
  
• ^{Spatial Inequality in Social Progress in Bangladesh
  CPRC Bangladesh Working Paper 7}
  
• ^{Snakes, ladders and traps: changing lives and livelihoods in rural Bangladesh (1994-2001)
  CPRC Bangladesh Working Paper 9}
  

Evaluating programmes for the poorest

• What works for the poorest? Knowledge, policies and practices
  ^{Research summary 1}
• Do Development Interventions Permit Households to Escape Chronic Poverty? Evaluating the Long-Term Impact of Interventions in Bangladesh
  ^Event
• Fighting chronic and extreme poverty in Bangladesh: implications for the second generation Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
  ^{CPRC Policy brief 13}

Panel data studies and mixed methods research

• Drivers of Escape and Descent: Changing Household Fortunes in Rural Bangladesh
  CPRC Bangladesh Working Paper 3
• Poverty transitions, shocks, and consumption in rural Bangladesh: Preliminary results from a longitudinal household survey
  ^{CPRC Working paper 105}
• The dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh
  ^{Research summary 3}
• Casting the net wide and deep: Lessons learned in a mixed-methods study of poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh
  ^{CPRC Working paper 155}
• Poverty in time: Exploring poverty dynamics from life history interviews in Bangladesh
  ^{CPRC Working paper 69}

View more resoources on Bangladesh, and view the Bangladesh Working Papers series.