Library items filed under: BRAC Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
Asset Transfer Programme for the Ultra Poor: A Randomized Control Trial Evaluation
Asset Transfer Programme for the Ultra Poor The world’s poorest people lack both capital and skills and are trapped in low return occupations. Whether their economic lives can be transformed by programmes which attempt to tackle both constraints by providing assets and training to enable them to run small businesses is however unknown. To shed …
Can Basic Entrepreneurship transform the Economic Lives of the Poor? – DRAFT (June 2012)
The world’s poorest people lack both capital and skills and typically engage in insecure and often seasonal occupations where they labor for others. The non-poor, in contrast, tend to be employed in running their own businesses or in secure wage employment. Whether the lack of capital and skills determines occupational choice and poverty is however …
Addressing Extreme Poverty in a Sustainable Manner: Evidence from CFPR Programme
BRAC initiated an innovative programme known as Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) in 2002 to address the extreme poverty in Bangladesh. Impact assessment studies on the first phase of CFPR (2002-06) have shown that the programme had significant positive impacts on the livelihoods of the participant households. However, whether this impact on livelihoods …
Impact: What Do We Know so Far? – BRAC
Can basic entrepreneurship transform the economic lives of the poor?
Promotional Safety Nets and Graduation Models in Bangladesh Workshop Report
BRAC Development Institute with support from WFP convened a day long learning event on promotional safety net programs and graduation models in Bangladesh in September, 2011. The report outlines the primary objectives of the conference, summarising the lessons on what works and what does not and the challenges for graduation models to be sustainable and …
Cost-benefit Analysis of BRAC CFPR
This paper presents a cost-benefit analysis of the first cohort (2002-03) of selected ultra poor (SUP) households of Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee’s (BRAC) Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction program (CFPR). The analysis calculates program benefits using primary data collected through a set of surveys. It measures benefit as the increase in expenditure on food …
Crafting a Graduation Pathway for the Ultra Poor: Lessons and Evidence from a BRAC Programme
This paper describes BRAC’s approach to create a graduation pathway for the ultra poor. The ultra poor are caught in a below-subsistence trap from which it is difficult for them to break free using available resources and mechanisms. Time is not an ally for the ultra poor, as things generally do not get better for …
