Anindita Bhattacharjee

Anindita Bhattacharjee
BRAC University | BU · Brac Institute of Governance and Development

Master of Economics

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Inadequate employment opportunities and child marriage are major challenges for female adolescents in many developing countries. Using panel data on a group of 14-18-year-old Bangladeshi adolescents receiving vocational skills training from BRAC and a group of non-participants, this paper analyses the impact of skills training on labour supply, ear...
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Increasing forcibly displaced populations worldwide are adversely affecting the poorest host communities' livelihoods. Livelihood programmes can reduce this tension by addressing host communities' skills and capital constraints. In this paper, we examine the effect of a customised version of BRAC's Ultra‐Poor Graduation (UPG) programme on the livel...
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COVID-19 school closure has caused a worldwide shift towards technology-aided home schooling. Given widespread poverty in developing countries, this has raised concerns over new forms of learning inequalities. Using nationwide data on primary and secondary school children in slum and rural households in Bangladesh, we examine how learning time at h...
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Existing evidence shows that programs that provide grants to productive assets along with training to very poor women increase labor supply, earnings, and consumption. In contrast, evidence on the effect of microcredit on these outcomes is mixed. In this paper, we examine the effect of a hybrid of the two approaches—credit and grant—on the liveliho...
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It is a Joint Study Report submitted to International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) BRAC-Dhaka IWMI-New Delhi. We analyzed how farmers were adapting to this changing climate and to a changing social and economic context in and out of the villages. We found that many farmers change their behaviors and adapt their agricultural practices th...
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This publication contains a detailed analysis of the of the baseline profile of both program participants and non-participants (as a comparison group) of the third phase of the CFPR-TUP program. In particular, the following broad areas of the survey respondents’ lives and livelihood are covered in this book – demography and education, asset base, f...

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