Gender cuts across all the themes, with resources on issues such as maternal health, education, social norms, power, rights, and employment.
Cost of abortions in Zambia: a comparison of safe abortion and post abortion care
Chronic poverty is a condition that requires an understanding of the processes that make, and keep, people poor. The economic analysis of chronic poverty must take into account the interaction between external circumstances (initial wealth social status, health) and intrinsic psychological factors (aspirations, self-confidence, beliefs).
Behavioural decisions : theory, implications and applications
While Government and NGOs in Bangladesh have undertaken many interventions designed to help households escape poverty, little is known about their long-term impact. Using a new longitudinal data set spanning 12 years and more than 1800 households, this project will investigate the long-term impact of three anti-poverty interventions—microfinance, agricultural technology, and educational transfers—on several measures of well-being and compare their cost-effectiveness.
Evaluating the long-term impact of antipoverty interventions in Bangladesh : an overview
Exploring the long-term impact of development interventions within life-history narratives in rural Bangladesh
Access, adoption, and diffusion: understanding the long-term impacts of improved vegetable and fish technologies in Bangladesh
Contested development?: intimate partner violence and women's employment in urban and rural Tanzania
The 18 month study involves the analysis of high quality data collected from Dar-es-Salaam, and a contrasting rural site, Mbeya to explore how poor women engaged in formal or informal employment activities outside the home describe the impact of their work on their roles and relationships.
Poor menstrual knowledge and access to sanitary products have been proposed as barriers to menstrual health and school attendance. Previously there has been no research to support this assertion. This study, a randomised control trial that assessed the impact of providing reusable sanitary pads and puberty education on girls' school attendance and psychosocial wellbeing outcomes, was the first to investigate this issue.
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