Building resilience in the chars of Bangladesh: An impact assessment

Farzana Misha; Syeda Sitwat Shahed; Natascha Wagner; Arjun Bedi

doi:10.1002/jid.3653

Building resilience in the chars of Bangladesh: An impact assessment

Farzana Misha^*, Syeda Sitwat Shahed, Natascha Wagner, Arjun Bedi

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Recent evidence highlights that integrated interventions have sustainable impacts on household welfare. This paper evaluates the ‘Char Development and Settlement Program,’ which targets marginalized, coastal populations of Bangladesh and is implemented by the NGO BRAC, which pioneers integrated programs in over 20 countries. The analysis exploits household panel data (2012, 2016) for over 2500 households living in 11 chars to measure the impact of a programme, comprising microfinance, health services and legal aid. Employing a difference-in-difference approach, we find considerable, programme-induced increases in consumption, food security and legal awareness suggesting that an integrated ‘big push’ is efficient for poverty alleviation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1547-1569
Number of pages	23
Journal	Journal of International Development
Volume	34
Issue number	8
Early online date	6 Apr 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3653
Publication status	Published - Nov 2022

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