Böcker av Shahidur R. Khandker

Rural energy's importance to the Bangladesh economy cannot be underestimated. The problems rural people face in obtaining safe, clean, and reliable energy supplies are not minor inconveniences. This study underscores how improved access to rural energy services can create multiple benefits for rural life from income and labour productivity to education and women's health.

Public programs are designed to reach certain goals and beneficiaries. This book deals with the methods to understand whether such programs actually work, as well as the level and nature of impacts on intended beneficiaries.

This text examines the experiences of the Grameen Bank and two other major microcredit programmes in Bangladesh in order to quantify the potential and limitations of microcredit programmes as an instrument for reducing poverty and delivering financial sevices to the poor.

Provides tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyse poverty. It provides background materials for designing poverty reduction strategies. This book is intended for researchers and policy analysts involved in poverty research and policy making.

Bangladesh has the world's fastest growing, off-grid solar home system (SHS) coverage. Surge in Solar Powered Homes assesses the country's remarkable growth in SHS, its support schemes, and the welfare impacts for rural households, using both large-scale household survey and institutional data.