Background

Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing countries.

Agricultural development projects increasingly aim to improve health and nutrition outcomes, often by engaging women.

Background

MGNREGA was introduced in India in 2005 with the aim to improve the livelihood of rural Indian households.

More than 98 million adolescent girls are not in school. Can girls inuence their schooling without changes in their family's economic environment?

Poor households in rural Bangladesh often face concurring idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks, which have adverse impacts on their income and consumption.

The economy of Bangladesh is largely defined by the agricultural sector, which is reflected in its yearly GDP contribution of approximately 11% in the past few years (World Bank, 2022).

Feed the Future seeks to sustainably reduce global poverty, hunger, and malnutrition by helping partner countries boost agriculture-led growth, resilience, and nutrition.

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Home to one-quarter of humanity — one-fifth of whom are youth – South Asia has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition.

Home to one-quarter of humanity—one-fifth of whom are youth—South Asia has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition (1–3).

Bangladesh has extensive experience with targeted social safety net programs. Most of these programs are widely credited with providing the poor access to food and improving their livelihoods. However, the need for assistance is overwhelming.

Introduction

•  Women’s diet is one of the immediate determinants of maternal and child nutrition

Objectives

The income reporting behaviour of wealthy Indians is a critical public finance issue. It has remained under-researched due to the lack of data sources required for the purpose.

Season’s greetings! The 47th issue of POSHAN’s Abstract Digest features studies on maternal nutrition, anemia, and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices.

The motivation for bringing a nutritional lens to social protection programs.

In 2005, India passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA, “the Act”), a law guaranteeing all rural households 100 days of work at a minimum wage through the building of durable assets, which created one of the largest anti-poverty

Women’s Voice & Agency beyond the household (VABH) has increasingly been recognized as critical to strengthening resilience, increasing women’s access to important resources, improving women’s decision-making power, and facilitating broader so