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  • Adelman, Sarah W.; Daniel O. Gilligan; and Kim Lehrer (2008) How Effective are Food for Education
    Programs? A Critical Assessment of the Evidence from Developing Countries (Washington, DC, USA:
    International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), IFPRI Food Policy Review, No. 9).
  • Alam, Mahmudul; assisted by Johirul Islam Mullick and Irene Parvin (eds.) (2008) Bangladesh education in
    transition : policy, performance, way forward (Dhaka, Bangladesh: D.Net (Development Research
    Network; Distributor: A. H. Development Pub. House)).
  • Andaleeb, Syed Saad (2008) “Knowledge Generation in Nation Building: A Vision for Higher Education in
    Bangladesh”, Paper presented at the Conference on "Bangladesh in the 21st Century" at Harvard
    University, Cambridge, MA (June 13-14, 2008).
  • Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz (2009) “Returns to Private and Public Education in Bangladesh and Pakistan:
    A Comparative Analysis”, Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 77-86; also published as Queen
    Elizabeth House (QEH) Working Paper Series, No. QEHWPS167 (Oxford, UK: University of Oxford).
  • Bhola, H. S. (2009) “Reconstructing literacy as an innovation for sustainable development: A policy
    advocacy for Bangladesh”, International Journal of Lifelong Education, Vol. 28, No. 3 (May), pp. 371-382.
  • Iversen, Vegard and Richard Palmer-Jones (2008) “Literacy Sharing, Assortative Mating, or What?
    Labour Market Advantages and Proximate Illiteracy Revisited”, The Journal of Development Studies, Vol.
    44, No. 6 (July), pp. 797-838.
  • Kabeer, Naila and Simeen Mahmud (2009) “Imagining the Future: Children, Education and
    Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Urban Bangladesh”, IDS Bulletin, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 10-21.
  • Khanam, Rasheda (2008) “Child labour and school attendance: evidence from Bangladesh”, International
    Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 35, Nos. 1/2, pp. 77-98.
  • Monzoor, Shahorin and Dewan Muhammad Humayun Kabir (2008) Primary Education in Bangladesh --
    Streams, Disparities and Pathways for Unified System, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Unnayan Onneshan - the
    Innovators.
  • Moore, Anna C.; Sadika Akhter; and Frances E. Aboud (2008) “Evaluating an improved quality preschool
    program in rural Bangladesh”, International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 118-
    131.
  • Rose, Pauline (2009) “NGO provision of basic education: alternative or complementary service delivery to
    support access to the excluded?“, Compare, Vol. 39, No. 2 (March), pp. 219-233.
  • Sarker, Profulla and Gareth Davey (2009) “Exclusion of indigenous children from primary education in the
    Rajshahi Division of northwestern Bangladesh”, International Journal of Inclusive Education, Vol. 13, No. 1
    (February), pp. 1-11.
  • Shafiq, M. Najeeb (2009) “A reversal of educational fortune? Educational gender gaps in Bangladesh”,
    Journal of International Development, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 137-155.
  • World Bank (2009) Bangladesh - Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (Washington, DC, USA:
    World Bank, Report No. 44827 (Project Appraisal Document, February)).
  • World Bank (2008) Bangladesh - Post-Literacy and Continuing Education for Human Development
    Project, (Washington, DC, USA: World Bank, Implementation Completion and Results Report, No. ICR795
    (July)).
  • World Bank (2008) Education for All in Bangladesh: Where Does Bangladesh Stand in Achieving the EFA
    Goals by 2015? (Washington, DC, USA: World Bank, Bangladesh Development Series (BDS), Paper No.
    24 (April)).
Publications of the Moment

Recognizing September 8, 2009 as
International Literacy Day
the BDRC provides
a list of
new publications
related to literacy in Bangladesh