Assessing the frontiers of ultrapoverty reduction: Evidence from challenging the frontiers of poverty reduction/targeting the ultra-poor, an innovative program in Bangladesh

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 339-380

  Emran, M Shahe ^a   Robano, Virginia ^b   Smith, Stephen C ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; INNOVATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POLICY APPROACH; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SOCIAL POLICY; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84893120004     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/674110     Document Type: Article

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