Akhter U. Ahmed

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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1.

Gender Empowerment Gaps in Agriculture and Children's Well-Being in Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1470
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Nov 2015
Hazel Jean Malapit, Esha Sraboni, Agnes R. Quisumbing and Akhter U. Ahmed
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Brown University - Department of Sociology, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Bangladesh; South Asia; Asia; gender; women; education; nutrition; children; social welfare; households; role of women; empowerment; well being

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Food Transfers, Cash Transfers, Behavior Change Communication and Child Nutrition: Evidence From Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1868, 2019
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Oct 2019
Akhter U. Ahmed, John Hoddinott and Shalini Roy
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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social protection, nutrition, children, cash transfers, behavior

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Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: What Role for Food Security in Bangladesh?

IFPRI Discussion Paper 01297
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Feb 2014
Esha Sraboni, Hazel Jean Malapit, Agnes R. Quisumbing and Akhter U. Ahmed
Brown University - Department of Sociology, University of the Philippines, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia, gender, women, food security, agriculture, nutrition, nutritional status, gender parity, empowerment

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Designing for Empowerment Impact in Agricultural Development Projects: Experimental Evidence From the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) Project in Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1957, 2020
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 30 Sep 2020
Agnes R. Quisumbing, Akhter U. Ahmed, John Hoddinott, Audrey Pereira and Shalini Roy
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, IFPRI’s Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia, Empowerment, Gender, Agricultural Development, Agriculture, Nutrition, Women, Women’s Empowerment, Randomized Controlled Trials, Gender Norms, Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture

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Transfers, Nutrition Programming, and Economic Well-Being: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1879
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Nov 2019
Akhter U. Ahmed, John Hoddinott, Shalini Roy and Esha Sraboni
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Brown University - Department of Sociology
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nutrition; children; economics; behaviour; social capital; empowerment; food security; social protection; assets; livelihoods

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Rising Wages in Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 01249
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Mar 2013
Xiaobo Zhang, Shahidur Rashid, Kaikaus Ahmad, Valerie Mueller, Hak Lim Lee, Solomon Lemma, Saika Belal and Akhter U. Ahmed
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), A member of the CGIAR Consortium - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia, Wages, wage rates, Lewis turning point, Labor market, Industrialization, Gender, Women, Remittances

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Social Protection and Sustainable Poverty Reduction: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1988, December 2020
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Mar 2021
Akhter U. Ahmed, Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott, Bastien Koch, Shalini Roy and Salauddin Tauseef
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and University of Manchester
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BANGLADESH, SOUTH ASIA, ASIA, social protection, food security, poverty, cash transfers, intervention, households, sustainability, nutrition, poverty alleviation

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Transfers, Behavior Change Communication, and Intimate Partner Violence: Postprogram Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1676
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 11 Sep 2017
Shalini Roy, Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott and Akhter U. Ahmed
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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transfers, behavior change communication, intimate partner violence, social protection, gender, Bangladesh

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Increasing Production Diversity and Diet Quality through Agriculture, Gender, and Nutrition Linkages: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 2112
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 02 May 2022 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2023
Akhter U. Ahmed, Fiona Coleman, Julie Ghostlaw, John Hoddinott, Purnima Menon, Aklima Parvin, Audrey Pereira, Agnes R. Quisumbing, Shalini Roy and Masuma Younus
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, International Food Policy Research Institute, Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, CGIAR - Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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production; diversification; diet; agriculture; gender; nutrition; agricultural production; dietary diversity; nutrition-sensitive agriculture; randomized controlled trials; BANGLADESH; SOUTH ASIA; ASIA

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Can Transfers and Behavior Change Communication Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Four Years Post-program? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1869, September 2019
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 21 Oct 2019
Shalini Roy, Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott, Bastien Koch and Akhter U. Ahmed
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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social protection, cash transfer, gender, sustainability, domestic violence

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Post-program Impacts of Transfer Programs on Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 2090
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 12 Mar 2022
Akhter U. Ahmed, Jena Hamadani, Md. Zahidul Hassan, Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott, Bastien Koch, Kalyani Raghunathan and Shalini Roy
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) - Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA) Limited, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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BANGLADESH, SOUTH ASIA, ASIA, early childhood development, children, child development, social protection, cash transfers, food transfers, behavior change communication

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Climbing up the Ladder and Watching out for the Fall: Poverty Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 1791
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Feb 2019
Akhter U. Ahmed and Salauddin Tauseef
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and University of Manchester
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Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia, Poverty, Households, Gender, Women, off Farm Employment Social Protection, Social Safety Net, Empowerment

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Does market inclusion empower women? Evidence from Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper 2008
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Mar 2021
Kalyani Raghunathan, Gayathri Ramani, Deborah Rubin, Audrey Pereira, Akhter U. Ahmed, Hazel Jean Malapit and Agnes R. Quisumbing
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute, Cultural Practice, LLC, Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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BANGLADESH, SOUTH ASIA, ASIA, empowerment, gender, women, women's empowerment, agriculture, livelihoods, mixed model method, value chains, rural areas, households