Imran Matin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1400260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Imran Matin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Imran |
| FAMILY NAME | Matin |
| SIGNATURE | MATIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | BRAC University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Economic recovery of the new poor created by Covid-19
The COVID-19 shock resulted in a large number of people becoming newly poor in Bangladesh, for whom recovery was slow and difficult. In response, BRAC implemented a nationwide program – credit, business planning support, and mentoring – targeting the economic recovery of the new poor. This paper estimates its impact using a mixed method and finds that the program had a significant positive effect on employment, income, and assets, indicating a fa…
BRAC at 50
As a Global South NGO from Bangladesh that has become one of the world’s largest NGOs, its 50th anniversary was a momentous occasion for BRAC. This Special Issue celebrates BRAC’s contributions to development thinking and practice across five decades, highlighting BRAC’s impact – and the challenges it has faced in achieving this – across several programmes, ranging from humanitarian response to women’s and young people’s empowerment and its quest…
Bangladesh and Covid-19
This article examines two primary data sets to identify the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on different sectors and vulnerable populations in Bangladesh. It attempts to identify how the trends in sectors such as agriculture, ready-made garments (RMGs), education, employment among youth, and women’s participation have changed due to the pandemic compared to pre-Covid-19 levels. The results show that the agriculture and RMG sectors demonstrated re…
Finding out fast about the impact of Covid-19
An adaptive governance and health system response for the Covid-19 emergency
Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC's Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh
This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive livelihood support and productive assets to the extreme poor. Based on field research in the rural north-west, the article examines the conditions under which elites can support interventions for t…
Changes in the lives of the ultra poor
This Research Roundup reports on the pilot phase of BRAC's aeChallenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme' (CFPR/TUP), which was initiated in three of the poorest districts of northern Bangladesh (Nilphamari, Rangpur, and Kurigram) in January 2002. The authors find a close link between the initial conditions of the programme participants and the degree of change they have experienced in their lives since its i…
Programs for the Poorest
Mis-Targeting by the Grameen Bank
There has been an increased emphasis on the targeting efficiency of micro?credit programmes. In general, recent studies find a much higher incidence of mis?targeting (around 25?30 per cent) than previous studies (3?5 per cent). Household survey data from four villages in Madhupur Thana is used to test the hypothesis that rapid progressive lending in the study area since 1992 has affected the selection and participation incentives and worsened bot…
Informal Credit Transactions of Micro-Credit Borrowers in Rural Bangladesh
Through a detailed study of informal credit transactions in a village in northern Bangladesh, the research empirically establishes that increased access to credit from micro?finance institutions (MFIs) in Bangladesh has been unable to substitute for the higher?cost informal credit sources. The reason for this is that MFI lending technology is insensitive to variations in household conditions. Most MFIs put all households on a treadmill of continu…
Programs for the Poorest
Finding out fast about the impact of Covid-19
Informal Credit Transactions of Micro-Credit Borrowers in Rural Bangladesh
Through a detailed study of informal credit transactions in a village in northern Bangladesh, the research empirically establishes that increased access to credit from micro?finance institutions (MFIs) in Bangladesh has been unable to substitute for the higher?cost informal credit sources. The reason for this is that MFI lending technology is insensitive to variations in household conditions. Most MFIs put all households on a treadmill of continu…
Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC's Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh
This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive livelihood support and productive assets to the extreme poor. Based on field research in the rural north-west, the article examines the conditions under which elites can support interventions for t…
Mis-Targeting by the Grameen Bank
There has been an increased emphasis on the targeting efficiency of micro?credit programmes. In general, recent studies find a much higher incidence of mis?targeting (around 25?30 per cent) than previous studies (3?5 per cent). Household survey data from four villages in Madhupur Thana is used to test the hypothesis that rapid progressive lending in the study area since 1992 has affected the selection and participation incentives and worsened bot…
Economic recovery of the new poor created by Covid-19
The COVID-19 shock resulted in a large number of people becoming newly poor in Bangladesh, for whom recovery was slow and difficult. In response, BRAC implemented a nationwide program – credit, business planning support, and mentoring – targeting the economic recovery of the new poor. This paper estimates its impact using a mixed method and finds that the program had a significant positive effect on employment, income, and assets, indicating a fa…
Bangladesh and Covid-19
This article examines two primary data sets to identify the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on different sectors and vulnerable populations in Bangladesh. It attempts to identify how the trends in sectors such as agriculture, ready-made garments (RMGs), education, employment among youth, and women’s participation have changed due to the pandemic compared to pre-Covid-19 levels. The results show that the agriculture and RMG sectors demonstrated re…
An adaptive governance and health system response for the Covid-19 emergency
Mis-Targeting by the Grameen Bank
There has been an increased emphasis on the targeting efficiency of micro?credit programmes. In general, recent studies find a much higher incidence of mis?targeting (around 25?30 per cent) than previous studies (3?5 per cent). Household survey data from four villages in Madhupur Thana is used to test the hypothesis that rapid progressive lending in the study area since 1992 has affected the selection and participation incentives and worsened bot…
Informal Credit Transactions of Micro-Credit Borrowers in Rural Bangladesh
Through a detailed study of informal credit transactions in a village in northern Bangladesh, the research empirically establishes that increased access to credit from micro?finance institutions (MFIs) in Bangladesh has been unable to substitute for the higher?cost informal credit sources. The reason for this is that MFI lending technology is insensitive to variations in household conditions. Most MFIs put all households on a treadmill of continu…
Programs for the Poorest
Changes in the lives of the ultra poor
This Research Roundup reports on the pilot phase of BRAC's aeChallenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme' (CFPR/TUP), which was initiated in three of the poorest districts of northern Bangladesh (Nilphamari, Rangpur, and Kurigram) in January 2002. The authors find a close link between the initial conditions of the programme participants and the degree of change they have experienced in their lives since its i…
Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC's Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh
This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive livelihood support and productive assets to the extreme poor. Based on field research in the rural north-west, the article examines the conditions under which elites can support interventions for t…
An adaptive governance and health system response for the Covid-19 emergency
Finding out fast about the impact of Covid-19
Bangladesh and Covid-19
This article examines two primary data sets to identify the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on different sectors and vulnerable populations in Bangladesh. It attempts to identify how the trends in sectors such as agriculture, ready-made garments (RMGs), education, employment among youth, and women’s participation have changed due to the pandemic compared to pre-Covid-19 levels. The results show that the agriculture and RMG sectors demonstrated re…
Economic recovery of the new poor created by Covid-19
The COVID-19 shock resulted in a large number of people becoming newly poor in Bangladesh, for whom recovery was slow and difficult. In response, BRAC implemented a nationwide program – credit, business planning support, and mentoring – targeting the economic recovery of the new poor. This paper estimates its impact using a mixed method and finds that the program had a significant positive effect on employment, income, and assets, indicating a fa…
BRAC at 50
As a Global South NGO from Bangladesh that has become one of the world’s largest NGOs, its 50th anniversary was a momentous occasion for BRAC. This Special Issue celebrates BRAC’s contributions to development thinking and practice across five decades, highlighting BRAC’s impact – and the challenges it has faced in achieving this – across several programmes, ranging from humanitarian response to women’s and young people’s empowerment and its quest…
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Livelihood (6 works) · Poverty (6 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works)