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It then focuses on the experimental design of an impact evaluation, highlighting its strengths and shortcomings, followed by discussions on various non-experimental methods. The authors also cover methods to shed light on the nature and mechanisms by which different participants are benefiting from the program.  For researchers interested in learning how to use these models with statistical software, the book also provides STATA exercises in the context of evaluating major microcredit programs in Bangladesh, such as the Grameen Bank. The framework presented in this book can be very useful for strengthening local capacity in impact evaluation among technicians and policymakers in charge of formulating, implementing, and evaluating programs to alleviate poverty and underdevelopment.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50322287001873,"sku":"GOR009715810","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51726855635217,"sku":"CIN0821380281VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52435190972689,"sku":"NLS9780821380284","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0821380281.jpg?v=1763480404"},{"product_id":"fighting-poverty-with-microcredit-experience-in-ba-book-world-bank-group-9780195211214","title":"FIGHTING POVERTY with MICROCREDIT EXPERIENCE in BA","description":"Providing the poor with access to financial services is one of many ways to help increase their incomes and productivity. In many countries, however, traditional financial institutions have failed to provide this service. Microcredit and co-operative programmes have been developed to fill this gap. Their purpose is to help the poor become self-employed and thus escape poverty. Many of these programmes provide credit using social mechanisms, such as group-based lending, to reach the poor and other clients, including women, who lack access to formal financial institutions. With increasing assistance from the World Bank and other donors, microfinance is emerging as an instrument for reducing poverty and improving the poor's access to financial services in low-income countries. This book 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 programs as an instrument for reducing poverty and delivering financial sevices to the poor.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51313284317457,"sku":"GOR012197722","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51313289232657,"sku":"CIN0195211219G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52142047232273,"sku":"NLS9780195211214","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B0072TRGMM.jpg?v=1763220261"},{"product_id":"surge-in-solar-powered-homes-book-shahidur-r-khandker-9781464803741","title":"Surge in Solar-Powered Homes","description":"Bangladesh has the world's fastest growing, off-grid solar home system (SHS) coverage. The number of SHSinstallations has risen phenomenally--from a five-year target of 50,000 in 2003 to 50,000 a month a decadelater. By early 2014, installations totaled more than 3 million. Even so, this figure represents just 10 percent ofthe country's off-grid households, suggesting ample room for continued program expansion.Surge in Solar-Powered Homes: Experience in Off-Grid Rural Bangladesh assesses the country's remarkablegrowth in SHS, its support schemes, and welfare impacts for rural households. Drawing on both large-scalehousehold survey and institutional data, the book's authors examine the effectiveness of SHS technology inimproving rural people's quality of life and the program delivery and financing mechanisms, including partialsubsidies, currently in place, administered by the Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL).The book's findings clearly demonstrate that the welfare benefits of SHS adoption far outweigh the socialcost of the subsidy. The benefits of lighting alone--replacing polluting kerosene lamps with solar-poweredelectric lighting--result in significant cost savings and income gains for adopter households. The findingsconfirm that SHS increases children's study time, households' sense of security, and women's empowerment.Within the current market incentive structure, there is tremendous scope for broadening the rural marketreach. But the high upfront cost of purchasing a SHS at current market prices is a barrier to future sales,suggesting the continued need for IDCOL's well-targeted subsidized operation.Bangladesh's highly successful SHS program leveraged a unique combination of geographical, institutional,and socioeconomic factors; however, certain elements could be easily replicated elsewhere. This bookwill be of interest to policy makers struggling with the task of increasing rural people's access to electricity,particularly in poor or remote areas where national grid extension is uneconomical. Developmentpractitioners can also benefit from learning about the welfare impacts of SHS on rural households andmarket-based implementation models designed to meet rural households' basic electricity needs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52125339353361,"sku":"NLS9781464803741","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781464803741.jpg?v=1773482484"},{"product_id":"beyond-ending-poverty-book-shahidur-r-khandker-9781464808944","title":"Beyond Ending Poverty","description":"The premise of improving access to financial services for consumption smoothing by the poor has never been a subject of controversy.  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Yet in agricultural pockets scattered throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, seasonal hunger persists, especially among the rural poor, owing primarily to idiosyncratic shocks caused by agricultural seasonality. More than four-fifths of the world's poor live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for livelihoods. Because of seasonal income shocks, the poor who are generally poor are likely to be even poorer during a particular agricultural season, while those who are not poor year-round may also be so during that season. Also, seasonal hunger may lead to endemic poverty if its adverse effects on income and consumption are irreversible. Policies aimed at reducing overall poverty often disregard its seasonal dimension, because standard poverty statistics do not consider seasonal hunger in the official data collection and analysis, there is no direct way to determine how many of the bottom billion, as economist Paul Collier refers to the world's poorest people, suffer from seasonal hunger. Even worse, regions prone to severe seasonal hunger are unlikely to attract the public investments required to raise the local economy's resilience through income diversification and thus break the seasonal-poverty cycle. The book provides an exhaustive inquiry of Bangladesh's seasonal hunger with special reference to the North West region. The seasonality of poverty and food deprivation is a common feature of rural livelihood but it is more marked in the north-west region of Bangladesh. The book also presents an evaluation of several policy interventions launched recently in mitigating seasonality, which provide a test case of what works and what does not in combating seasonal hunger. The major findings of the book are the following: (a) Policies to improve food security should explicitly take into account the seasonal dimension of food deprivation. (b) Gains from initiatives to combat seasonal hunger should be monitored and consolidated to ensure sustainable impacts. 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