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    A note on the performance of RDP (1996-'98)
    (BRAC, 1999-04) Mallick, Debdulal
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    An impact assessment study of BRAC's Rural Development Programme: lessons from methodological issues
    (BRAC, 1998-09) Hussain, A M Muazzam; Mallick, Debdulal; Chowdhury, A M R
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    BRAC's contribution to gross domestic product of Bangladesh
    (Research and Evaluation Division, Brac, 2000-07) Mallick, Debdulal
    This paper estimates the contribution of BRAC programmes to the gross domestic product (GDP) of Bangladesh. BRAC's contribution to GDP of Bangladesh has been divided into four components. These are 1) Value added in BRAC as an organization in a given year, 2) Incremental value added in linked sectors due to input supply to BRAC in a given year, 3) Incremental value added in linked sectors attributed to loans disbursed by BRAC in a given year, and 4) Incremental value added in linked sectors attributed to nonfinancial development inputs (skill training, non-formal primary education, and health services) in a given year. BRAC contributed Tk. 8,215.3 million, Tk. 10,479.1 million, Tk. 13,558 million and Tk. 17,770.3 million to GDP ofBangladesh in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 respectively. In 1995 BRAC's share to GDP was 0.7%, which increased to 1.15% in 1998. This shows that output of BRAC increased faster than GDP of Bangladesh. During the period output of BRAC increased, on average, at 29.1% annually. But estimating the contribution of education intervention was not possible due to lack of information on the sectoral wage differential of the BRAC graduates and those without any education. Therefore, the total output of BRAC is not fully captured in the present study.
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    Changes in the pattern of BRAC loan use and its impact on poverty
    (BRAC, 1998-11) Mallick, Debdulal; Husain, A M Muazzam
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    Factors contributing to change in the occupation of BRAC household heads
    (BRAC, 1998-09) Mallick, Debdulal
    This paper aims to explore the underlying reasons of BRAC household heads getting involved in farm and non-farm sectors, the nature and extent of change in their occupation between 1993 and 1996 and contribution of BRAC inputs in this change. Secondary analysis of IAS-I and lAS-II data collected in 1993 and 1996 respectively has been done for this paper. There had been only a marginal shift of occupation to the farm sector (3%) between 1993 and 1996. But actually there was a large inter group redistribution in occupational status as 33% of those engaged in farm activities in 1993 shifted to other sectors and 27% of those from non-farm sector switched to other sectors. Heads of the households with large family size and smaller amount of landholding switched to non-farm activities and so did those from villages with good infrastructure and marketing facilities. Household heads from villages with poor infrastructure and marketing facilities and with larger amount of landholding and receiving loan over Taka 5,000 were mainly engaged in farm activities. Such household heads who were previously engaged in the non-farm sector also switched to the farm sector.
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    Socioeconomic and health profile of Chittagong Hill Tracts
    (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1999) Rafi, Mohammad; Mallick, Debdulal; Karim, Fazlul; Nath, Samir Ranjan; Ahmed, Syed Masud; Akter, Nasima; Begum, Shamim A.
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    Where NGOs go and do not go?
    (BRAC, 2011-05) Mallick, Debdulal; Nabin, Munirul H.
    We aim to investigate the role of output market imperfections in constraining the microfinance programme to mitigate credit market imperfections. We develop a model in which output market imperfections increase operating costs for nongovernment organizations (NGO) and create barriers for producers to market their goods. Therefore, NGOs operate in locations having good physical infrastructure and better productive. and marketing opportunities to minimize operating costs and maximize loan repayment. Using data from northern Bangladesh, we found strong support for the model predictions. NGO coverage in a village, measured both by percentage of NGO member households and number of NGOs working, decreased with distance of the village from marketplace and increased with adoption of modern irrigation method and soil quality. NGOs did not consider poverty incidence in the village. The results have important implications for development economics in general and impact assessment of microfinance programme in particular.