Shahidur R Khandker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1456149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shahidur R Khandker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shahidur R |
| FAMILY NAME | Khandker |
| SIGNATURE | KHANDKER S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 311 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Surprising Effects of the Great Recession
Welfare Impacts of Rural Electrification
Most past studies on the development impact of rural electrification have relied on cross-sectional surveys comparing households with and without electricity. This study tests the validity of the perceived correlation between welfare outcomes and rural electrification and quantifies electricity’s benefits on the basis of sound econometric techniques that control for endogeneity bias. The study used panel surveys conducted in rural Vietnam in 2002…
Seasonal Hunger and Its Mitigation in North-West Bangladesh
Seasonal hunger may result from seasonality of agriculture when households fail to smooth income and consumption. Using household survey data from the north-west region of Bangladesh, this article examines alternative measures of seasonal hunger, and provides some evidence to support policies and programmes needed to mitigate seasonal hunger. The results suggest that a large majority of food-vulnerable households are the perpetual poor, as oppose…
Seasonal Migration to Mitigate Income Seasonality
In north-west Bangladesh, some 36 per cent of poor households migrate every year during the lean (monga) period to cope with seasonal deprivation. Analysis of household survey data shows that the probability of seasonal migration is high for households with a high dependency ratio, high dependency on wage employment, and in villages with high unemployment; but low in villages with microcredit access. Findings show that seasonal migration helps ho…
Energy poverty in rural Bangladesh
Seasonality of income and poverty in Bangladesh
How Infrastructure and Financial Institutions Affect Rural Income and Poverty
The mechanisms by which the poor benefit from economic growth remain a topic of debate in development literature. We address this issue in the context of rural Bangladesh, using a pooled dataset of three household panels between 1991-2001. Expansion of irrigation, paved roads, electricity, and access to formal and informal credit have (through different veins) led to higher rural farm and non-farm incomes, accounting for exogenous local agroclima…
Handbook on Impact Evaluation
Handbook on Poverty and Inequality
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Handbook on Poverty and InequalityAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7613-3SectionsAboutPDF (3.9 MB)Other FormatsePUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? 'World Development Indicators' is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development.…
The Poverty Impact of Rural Roads
A rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to employ labor and capital more efficiently. Significant knowledge gaps persist, however, as to how opportunities provided by roads actually filter back into household outcomes as well as distributional consequences. This study examines the impacts of two rural road‐paving projects in Bangladesh using a new quasi‐…
Empowering Women with Micro Finance
This article examines the effects of men’s and women’s participation in micro credit programs on various indicators of women’s empowerment using data from a special survey carried out in rural Bangladesh. These credit programs are well suited to studying how gender‐specific resources alter intrahousehold allocations because they induce differential participation by gender through the requirement that only one adult member per household can partic…
Microfinance and Poverty
Microfinance supports mainly informal activities that often have a low return and low market demand. It may therefore be hypothesized that the aggregate poverty impact of microfinance is modest or even nonexistent. If true, the poverty impact of microfinance observed at the participant level represents either income redistribution or short-run income generation from the microfinance intervention. This article examines the effects of microfinance …
Credit Programmes for the Poor and Seasonality in Rural Bangladesh
This article examines the effect of group-based credit used to finance self-employment by landless households in Bangladesh on the seasonal pattern of household consumption and male and female labour supply. This credit can help smooth seasonal consumption by financing new productive activities whose income flows and time demands do not seasonally covary with the income generated by existing agricultural activities. The results, based upon 1991/9…
Credit programs for the poor and reproductive behavior in low-income countries
Group-based lending programs for the poor have drawn much attention recently. As many of these programs target women, an important research question is whether program participation significantly changes reproductive behavior and whether the gender of the participant matters. Using survey data from 87 Bangladeshi villages, we estimate the impact of female and male participation in group-based credit programs on reproductive behavior while attendi…
Income and employment effects of micro‐credit programmes
Micro‐credit programmes, having made their mark in providing credit and other development services to the poor in a non‐traditional way, are able to make significant changes in a rural economy. This article attempts to quantify the village‐level impacts of the three most important micro‐credit programmes of Bangladesh, namely Grameen Bank, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), and Bangladesh Rural Development Board's (BRDB) RD‐12 project…
Micro-Credit Programme Evaluation
Micro-credit programmes have emerged as an antipoverty instrument in many low-income countries. They target the poor, especially women, with financial services to help them become self?employed in rural non?farm activities of their choice. In contrast, micro?credit programmes of the village banks supported by Accion International or Women's World Banking provide financial services in response to market failures in which formal financial instituti…
The impact of Group‐Based Credit Programs on Poor Households in Bangladesh
This paper estimates the impact of participation, by gender, in the Grameen Bank and two other group‐based micro credit programs in Bangladesh on labor supply, schooling, household expenditure, and assets. The empirical method uses a quasi‐experimental survey design to correct for the bias from unobserved individual and village‐level heterogencity. We find that program credit has a larger effect on the behavior of poor households in Bangladesh wh…
Targeted Credit Programs and Rural Poverty in Bangladesh
No AccessWorld Bank Discussion Papers12 Aug 2013Targeted Credit Programs and Rural Poverty in BangladeshAuthors/Editors: Shahidur R. Khandker, Osman H. ChowdhuryShahidur R. Khandker, Osman H. Chowdhuryhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-3706-8SectionsAboutPDF (0.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This paper is one of several papers produced as a research output under the research project…
The impact of formal finance on the rural economy of India
India's supply‐led approach to agricultural credit paid off in non‐farm growth, employment and rural wages. The impact of expanded credit on agricultural output has been modest, and the benefits of agricultural income exceed the costs of the programme only if optimistic assumptions are made about repayment rates on farm credit
How infrastructure and financial institutions affect agricultural output and investment in India
Input management ability, occupational patterns, and farm productivity in Bangladesh agriculture
Agricultural production involves the use of certain difficult‐to‐measure resource endowments of farmers in addition to observable physical inputs. This article proposes integrating a behavioural component ‐ input management ability ‐ into a production framework that can then be used to analyse the impact of farmers’ supervisory skills and efforts on farm productivity. The empirical analysis suggests that extension programmes may need to be broade…
Determinants of Women's Time Allocation in Rural Bangladesh
Allocative efficiency, the aggregation of labour inputs, and the effects of farm size and tenancy status
The article focuses on tests of labour aggregation and profit maximising behaviour of farmers in a village in Bangladesh. Special emphasis is placed on the role of farm size and the tenancy status. Although unconstrained profit maximising behaviour does not generally characterise the behaviour of farmers in the village, the behaviour of farm operators is consistent across farm size and tenancy status. This supports the proposition that share‐tena…
Labor Market Participation of Married Women in Bangladesh
ABS'DtAC'l'For a country such as Bangladesh, a nested multinomial logit model is utilized to test whether female time allocation is inflexibly fixed by local customs and whether informal activity is an independent category in a woman's choice structure of work.The econometric analysis of cross-sectional women's time-use data from rural Bangladesh suggests that a woman's activity as an unpaid labor in a family enterprise is not a distinct category…
Farm Size, Tenancy Status and Technology
The paper focuses on the estimation of aggregate revenue functions to represent the production technology facing peasant households in a multi-crop economy. Special emphasis is placed on the role of farm size and the tenancy status of the farm operator. The results suggest that farm size and tenancy status have little impact on the representation of the aggregate production technology in the surveyed villages
The impact of Group‐Based Credit Programs on Poor Households in Bangladesh
This paper estimates the impact of participation, by gender, in the Grameen Bank and two other group‐based micro credit programs in Bangladesh on labor supply, schooling, household expenditure, and assets. The empirical method uses a quasi‐experimental survey design to correct for the bias from unobserved individual and village‐level heterogencity. We find that program credit has a larger effect on the behavior of poor households in Bangladesh wh…
How infrastructure and financial institutions affect agricultural output and investment in India
Empowering Women with Micro Finance
This article examines the effects of men’s and women’s participation in micro credit programs on various indicators of women’s empowerment using data from a special survey carried out in rural Bangladesh. These credit programs are well suited to studying how gender‐specific resources alter intrahousehold allocations because they induce differential participation by gender through the requirement that only one adult member per household can partic…
Seasonality of income and poverty in Bangladesh
Credit programs for the poor and reproductive behavior in low-income countries
Group-based lending programs for the poor have drawn much attention recently. As many of these programs target women, an important research question is whether program participation significantly changes reproductive behavior and whether the gender of the participant matters. Using survey data from 87 Bangladeshi villages, we estimate the impact of female and male participation in group-based credit programs on reproductive behavior while attendi…
The Poverty Impact of Rural Roads
A rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to employ labor and capital more efficiently. Significant knowledge gaps persist, however, as to how opportunities provided by roads actually filter back into household outcomes as well as distributional consequences. This study examines the impacts of two rural road‐paving projects in Bangladesh using a new quasi‐…
Welfare Impacts of Rural Electrification
Most past studies on the development impact of rural electrification have relied on cross-sectional surveys comparing households with and without electricity. This study tests the validity of the perceived correlation between welfare outcomes and rural electrification and quantifies electricity’s benefits on the basis of sound econometric techniques that control for endogeneity bias. The study used panel surveys conducted in rural Vietnam in 2002…
Determinants of Women's Time Allocation in Rural Bangladesh
Farm Size, Tenancy Status and Technology
The paper focuses on the estimation of aggregate revenue functions to represent the production technology facing peasant households in a multi-crop economy. Special emphasis is placed on the role of farm size and the tenancy status of the farm operator. The results suggest that farm size and tenancy status have little impact on the representation of the aggregate production technology in the surveyed villages
Allocative efficiency, the aggregation of labour inputs, and the effects of farm size and tenancy status
The article focuses on tests of labour aggregation and profit maximising behaviour of farmers in a village in Bangladesh. Special emphasis is placed on the role of farm size and the tenancy status. Although unconstrained profit maximising behaviour does not generally characterise the behaviour of farmers in the village, the behaviour of farm operators is consistent across farm size and tenancy status. This supports the proposition that share‐tena…
Labor Market Participation of Married Women in Bangladesh
ABS'DtAC'l'For a country such as Bangladesh, a nested multinomial logit model is utilized to test whether female time allocation is inflexibly fixed by local customs and whether informal activity is an independent category in a woman's choice structure of work.The econometric analysis of cross-sectional women's time-use data from rural Bangladesh suggests that a woman's activity as an unpaid labor in a family enterprise is not a distinct category…
Input management ability, occupational patterns, and farm productivity in Bangladesh agriculture
Agricultural production involves the use of certain difficult‐to‐measure resource endowments of farmers in addition to observable physical inputs. This article proposes integrating a behavioural component ‐ input management ability ‐ into a production framework that can then be used to analyse the impact of farmers’ supervisory skills and efforts on farm productivity. The empirical analysis suggests that extension programmes may need to be broade…
Determinants of Women's Time Allocation in Rural Bangladesh
How infrastructure and financial institutions affect agricultural output and investment in India
The impact of formal finance on the rural economy of India
India's supply‐led approach to agricultural credit paid off in non‐farm growth, employment and rural wages. The impact of expanded credit on agricultural output has been modest, and the benefits of agricultural income exceed the costs of the programme only if optimistic assumptions are made about repayment rates on farm credit
Targeted Credit Programs and Rural Poverty in Bangladesh
No AccessWorld Bank Discussion Papers12 Aug 2013Targeted Credit Programs and Rural Poverty in BangladeshAuthors/Editors: Shahidur R. Khandker, Osman H. ChowdhuryShahidur R. Khandker, Osman H. Chowdhuryhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-3706-8SectionsAboutPDF (0.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This paper is one of several papers produced as a research output under the research project…
Income and employment effects of micro‐credit programmes
Micro‐credit programmes, having made their mark in providing credit and other development services to the poor in a non‐traditional way, are able to make significant changes in a rural economy. This article attempts to quantify the village‐level impacts of the three most important micro‐credit programmes of Bangladesh, namely Grameen Bank, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), and Bangladesh Rural Development Board's (BRDB) RD‐12 project…
Micro-Credit Programme Evaluation
Micro-credit programmes have emerged as an antipoverty instrument in many low-income countries. They target the poor, especially women, with financial services to help them become self?employed in rural non?farm activities of their choice. In contrast, micro?credit programmes of the village banks supported by Accion International or Women's World Banking provide financial services in response to market failures in which formal financial instituti…
The impact of Group‐Based Credit Programs on Poor Households in Bangladesh
This paper estimates the impact of participation, by gender, in the Grameen Bank and two other group‐based micro credit programs in Bangladesh on labor supply, schooling, household expenditure, and assets. The empirical method uses a quasi‐experimental survey design to correct for the bias from unobserved individual and village‐level heterogencity. We find that program credit has a larger effect on the behavior of poor households in Bangladesh wh…
Credit programs for the poor and reproductive behavior in low-income countries
Group-based lending programs for the poor have drawn much attention recently. As many of these programs target women, an important research question is whether program participation significantly changes reproductive behavior and whether the gender of the participant matters. Using survey data from 87 Bangladeshi villages, we estimate the impact of female and male participation in group-based credit programs on reproductive behavior while attendi…
Credit Programmes for the Poor and Seasonality in Rural Bangladesh
This article examines the effect of group-based credit used to finance self-employment by landless households in Bangladesh on the seasonal pattern of household consumption and male and female labour supply. This credit can help smooth seasonal consumption by financing new productive activities whose income flows and time demands do not seasonally covary with the income generated by existing agricultural activities. The results, based upon 1991/9…
Microfinance and Poverty
Microfinance supports mainly informal activities that often have a low return and low market demand. It may therefore be hypothesized that the aggregate poverty impact of microfinance is modest or even nonexistent. If true, the poverty impact of microfinance observed at the participant level represents either income redistribution or short-run income generation from the microfinance intervention. This article examines the effects of microfinance …
Empowering Women with Micro Finance
This article examines the effects of men’s and women’s participation in micro credit programs on various indicators of women’s empowerment using data from a special survey carried out in rural Bangladesh. These credit programs are well suited to studying how gender‐specific resources alter intrahousehold allocations because they induce differential participation by gender through the requirement that only one adult member per household can partic…
Handbook on Impact Evaluation
Handbook on Poverty and Inequality
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Handbook on Poverty and InequalityAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7613-3SectionsAboutPDF (3.9 MB)Other FormatsePUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? 'World Development Indicators' is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development.…
The Poverty Impact of Rural Roads
A rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to employ labor and capital more efficiently. Significant knowledge gaps persist, however, as to how opportunities provided by roads actually filter back into household outcomes as well as distributional consequences. This study examines the impacts of two rural road‐paving projects in Bangladesh using a new quasi‐…
How Infrastructure and Financial Institutions Affect Rural Income and Poverty
The mechanisms by which the poor benefit from economic growth remain a topic of debate in development literature. We address this issue in the context of rural Bangladesh, using a pooled dataset of three household panels between 1991-2001. Expansion of irrigation, paved roads, electricity, and access to formal and informal credit have (through different veins) led to higher rural farm and non-farm incomes, accounting for exogenous local agroclima…
Energy poverty in rural Bangladesh
Seasonality of income and poverty in Bangladesh
Seasonal Hunger and Its Mitigation in North-West Bangladesh
Seasonal hunger may result from seasonality of agriculture when households fail to smooth income and consumption. Using household survey data from the north-west region of Bangladesh, this article examines alternative measures of seasonal hunger, and provides some evidence to support policies and programmes needed to mitigate seasonal hunger. The results suggest that a large majority of food-vulnerable households are the perpetual poor, as oppose…
Seasonal Migration to Mitigate Income Seasonality
In north-west Bangladesh, some 36 per cent of poor households migrate every year during the lean (monga) period to cope with seasonal deprivation. Analysis of household survey data shows that the probability of seasonal migration is high for households with a high dependency ratio, high dependency on wage employment, and in villages with high unemployment; but low in villages with microcredit access. Findings show that seasonal migration helps ho…
The Surprising Effects of the Great Recession
Welfare Impacts of Rural Electrification
Most past studies on the development impact of rural electrification have relied on cross-sectional surveys comparing households with and without electricity. This study tests the validity of the perceived correlation between welfare outcomes and rural electrification and quantifies electricity’s benefits on the basis of sound econometric techniques that control for endogeneity bias. The study used panel surveys conducted in rural Vietnam in 2002…
Economics (24 works) · Economic growth (18 works) · Business (16 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (16 works) · Geography (12 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (11 works) · Poverty (11 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Agricultural economics (8 works)