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  • Seasonality of rural finance (Inglés)

    Simultaneity of borrowing, withdrawal of savings, and loan defaults due to the pronounced seasonality of ag-riculture often leads to investment failure of rural financial institutions. Lack of borrowing...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7986 Fecha del documento: 28 de febrero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.,Badruddoza,Syed

  • Dynamics of rural growth in Bangladesh : sustaining poverty reduction (Inglés)

    The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 103244 Fecha del documento: 17 de mayo de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gautam,Madhur,Faruqee,Rashidur R.,Ahmed,Md Mansur,Shilpi,Forhad J.,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Ahmed, S. Amer,Verissimo,Patrick,Kar,Anuja,Chellaraj,Gnanaraj



  • Surge in solar-powered homes : experience in off-grid rural Bangladesh (Inglés)

    Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in raising living standards and reducing poverty, particularly in previously lagging regions. Rapid solar home system (SHS) expansion in Bangladesh to some 3 million...

    Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 91349 Fecha del documento: 8 de octubre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Haque,Abul Kalam Enamul,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Sadeque,Zubair K.M.,Samad,Hussain A.,Yunus,Mohammad,Asaduzzaman,Mohammed


  • Does institutional finance matter for agriculture ? evidence using panel data from Uganda (Inglés)

    Smallholder agriculture in many developing countries has remained largely self-financed. However, improved productivity for attaining greater food security requires better access to institutional credit...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6942 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Koolwal,Gayatri B.

  • Dynamic effects of microcredit in Bangladesh (Inglés)

    This paper uses long panel survey data spanning over 20 years to examine the dynamics of microcredit programs in Bangladesh. With the phenomenal growth of microfinance institutions representing 30 million...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6821 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.

  • The benefits of solar home systems :an analysis from Bangladesh (Inglés)

    The Government of Bangladesh, with help from the World Bank and other donors, has provided aid to a local agency called Infrastructure Development Company Limited and its partner organizations to devise...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6724 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Samad,Hussain A.,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Asaduzzaman,T. M.,Yunus,Mohammad

  • Estimating the effects of credit constraints on productivity of Peruvian agriculture (Inglés)

    This paper proposes an estimator for the endogenous switching regression models with fixed effects. The estimator allows for endogenous selection and for conditional heteroscedasticity in the outcome equation...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6658 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Woutersen,Tiemen Meerten,Khandker,Shahidur R.

  • Welfare impacts of rural electrification : evidence from Vietnam (Inglés)

    This brief summarizes the welfare impacts of rural electrification: evidence from Vietnam for the period 2000-2004. Access to electricity is a key to any development initiative and there is a growing body...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 81520 Fecha del documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Barnes,Douglas French,Samad,Hussain A.,Nguyen,Minh Huu

  • Subsidy to promote girls secondary education : the female stipend program in Bangladesh (Inglés)

    The brief summarizes the subsidy to promote girls secondary education: the female stipend program in Bangladesh. The intervention started in 1994. Girl's grade 6-10 received the stipend once a year. Secondary...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 81464 Fecha del documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Pitt,Mark M.,Fuwa,Nobuhiko

  • The poverty impact of rural roads : evidence from Bangladesh (Inglés)

    This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled The poverty impact of rural roads : evidence from Bangladesh, conducted during the time period 1995 to 1996 in Bangladesh...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 81507 Fecha del documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Bakht,Zaid,Koolwal,Gayatri B.

  • Are microcredit borrowers in Bangladesh over-indebted ? (Inglés)

    Microcredit programs in Bangladesh have experienced spectacular growth in recent years, with a growing number of borrowers availing credit from multiple microcredit agencies. There is a growing concern...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6574 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Faruqee,Rashidur R.,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.

  • Are microcredit participants in Bangladesh trapped in poverty and debt ? (Inglés)

    This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics have argued in recent years. Analysis of data from a long panel survey over a 20-year...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6404 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.

  • How does competition affect the performance of MFIs ? evidence from Bangladesh (Inglés)

    Over the past 20 years, Bangladesh has witnessed strong competition among microfinance institutions. Using program-level panel data from 2005-2010, this paper studies the microfinance institutions' recent...

    Tipo de documento: Número del informe: WPS6408 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Badruddoza, Syed,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Koolwal,Gayatri B.

  • Does access to finance matter in microenterprise growth ? evidence from Bangladesh (Inglés)

    In less-developed economies such as Bangladesh, the farm sector is the major source of employment and income, while the rural nonfarm sector provides as an additional source of income. But the rural nonfarm...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6333 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ali,Rubaba,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.

  • Seasonal hunger and its mitigation in North-West Bangladesh (Inglés)

    Seasonal hunger may result from seasonality of agriculture when households fail to smooth income and consumption. Using household survey data from the northwest region of Bangladesh, this paper examines...

    Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 79391 Fecha del documento: 20 de noviembre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khalily,Md. Abdul Baqui,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Samad,Hussain A.

  • The surprising effects of the great recession : losers and winners in Thailand in 2008-2009 (Inglés)

    In 2009, buffeted by the great recession, Thai gross domestic product fell by 2.3 percent. Using monthly data from the socio-economic surveys of 2007-2010, this paper finds, after controlling for household...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6255 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Haughton,Jonathan,Khandker,Shahidur R.