Related News Releases: Bangladesh

Vox published a news editorial about the ability of cash transfer initiatives to reduce rates of intimate partner violence.

NPR published a news feature on how improved economic status of women could reduce domestic violence against them.

Devex published an op-ed by Associate Research Fellow Greg Seymour who detailed the recent surge in representing measures of empowerment, particularly women’s empowerment, in research. Seymour details new research examining measurement concepts around standard-decision making indicators from case studies in Ghana and Bangladesh.

Business Standard published a news article about the preventative measures of cash transfers and behavior change communication programs for reducing intimate partner violence in Bangladesh.  IFPRI research fellows Shalini Roy and Melissa Hidrobo were included in the article discussing how reductions in IPV

Financial Express (Bangladesh) reported on the IFPRI study, Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Post-program evidence from rural Bangladesh, The study found that direct cash transfers coupled with behavior change communication (BCC) can reduce violence against women inflicted by their partners by more than a quarter.

Direct cash transfers coupled with BCC can reduce intimate partner violence by 26 percent, according to a new study.

Increased soil salinity may force nearly 200,000 coastal residents to migrate within Bangladesh, according to a new study in Nature Climate Change.

While Bangladesh's agricultural sector provides an important economic growth engine, its growth rate has slowed from six percent to one percent in recent years. An important survey from IFPRI sheds some light on the culprit, according to Bangladesh's English-language Financial Express newspaper. The study found that of loans disbured by the state-owned bank, only 14 percent went to small and marginal farmers, compared with 27 percent for medium and large farmers. 

Bangladesh's English-language Financial Express newspaper reported on a study by Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey that found a link between childhood exposure to animal feces and stunting. Stunting has serious implications, Headey said, because "it's strongly associated with poor health and cognition as well as reduced educational attainment and subsequent lifetime earnings."

Exposure to animal feces has been linked to slower physical growth in young children according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).