The wider impacts of BRAC poverty alleviation programme in Bangladesh

Journal of International Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 369-386

  Chowdhury, A Mushtaque R ^a   Bhuiya, Abbas ^b  

^a RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

^b ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 2142807341     PISSN: 09541748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jid.1083     Document Type: Article

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