Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh
This paper reports the results of two 2-year randomized control trials in two poor rural areas of Bangladesh.
This paper reports the results of two 2-year randomized control trials in two poor rural areas of Bangladesh.
Absenteeism by doctors in public healthcare facilities in rural Bangladesh is a form of chronic rule-breaking and is recognised as a critical problem by the government.
Large, unexpected shocks are becoming more frequent, making the design of robust social transfer programs more vital than ever.
We investigated the change of the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Bangladesh from 2011 to 2018 across different socioeconomic groups as well as the factors associated with the changes in prevalence.
Many cash transfer programs include complementary nutrition training, with the aim of encouraging households to use transfer resources toward improving child nutrition.
Progress to improve nutrition among women, infants and children in South Asia has fallen behind the pace needed to meet established global targets.
We assess whether ownership of dairy cows is associated with a greater likelihood of consuming dairy products and with child anthropometric status in rural Bangladesh.
Climate change poses a greater threat for more exposed and vulnerable countries, communities and social groups.
Poverty is endemic in the highly populated Eastern Gangetic Plains where agriculture is critical to more than half the population. However, the mechanisms to support agriculture for development are contested.
Integrated aquaculture–agriculture (IAA) is a form of crop diversification where aquatic and terrestrial foods are grown together on a single parcel of land.
The rapid growth of aquaculture in Bangladesh over the past three decades has been facilitated by increasing supplementary feed use and increasing numbers of feed suppliers, but little is known about the organization and behavior of the feed suppl
Background: Bangladesh is urbanizing rapidly, facing challenges of malnutrition, low coverage and poor quality of urban nutrition services.
This paper investigates the associations between agricultural diversification and dietary diversity among men, women and children of farm households in Bangladesh.
The COVID-19 pandemic not only imposed severe health risks but also raised major challenges to the economy, due to widespread and severe measures to control the spread of the disease.
Antenatal care (ANC) is an opportunity to receive interventions that can prevent low birth weight (LBW).