Review of ‘Renegotiating Patriarchy’ (LSE Press, 2024) by Naila Kabeer

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Can sorting your household waste help fight climate change? Authored by Dr. Proloy Barua, Prataoy Kabya Bhowmik, Khadija Akter Sonia, A M M Fazlur Rashid, and Dr. Munshi Sulaiman, this new policy brie...

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Digital financial services can meaningfully support women's economic empowerment across South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but only when products are designed around how women already manage money – with features that enable earmarking, smooth liquidity, and account for household dynamics.

The authors evaluate a novel accountability-based approach to civic education, which enables young people to hold local authorities to account for the quality of public services. They theorize that en...

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In this episode, I speak with Imran Matin of BRAC University’s Institute for Governance and Development and my CGD colleague Kehinde Ajayi about why child marriage persists and what evidence tells us ...

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In Ghana, a simple, low-cost intervention – helping informal workers set daily goals – significantly improved workers’ and firms’ performance, suggesting that non-binding incentives may be an effective means to foster the growth of small firms in developing contexts.

Family laws in Bangladesh are shaped by religious laws and traditions which have traditionally shown discrimination towards women irrespective of their religious identities. There has been an emphasis...

In Bangladesh, only 34 percent of women have an account, compared to 52 percent of men — a gap of almost 20 percentage points, roughly five times the global average. And in South Asia, nearly one in f...

From July 2-3, 2025, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners gathered in Accra, Ghana, for the Access to Agency: Empowering Women through Digital Inclusion conference, hosted by the BRAC Institut...