• Dr. Abu S. Shonchoy
• Dr. Hisaki Kuno
In Bangladesh, agriculture sector has the largest concentration of labor force though it contributes only about 20% of GDP. Among the farmers (agricultural labor), most them have no land of their own. They usually work as agricultural day labor. However, among landless farmers some them are tenant and share croppers. Sharecroppers usually has to share about and sometimes more than 50% of their production. Though sharecropping is usually less profitable to farmers than fixed rent, however, due to liquid crisis farmers often have to go for sharecropping.
To meet the farmers’ demand for liquid money central bank of Bangladesh
• Dr. Abu S. Shonchoy
• Dr. Yuya Kudo
• Dr. Kazushi Takahashi
With the Fund assistance by IDE-JETRO, Japan and KOPERNIK, Indonesia “The Demand for and the Impact of Solar Lantern in Northern Part of Bangladesh” has started its journey from April 2013 with conducting rigorous school visit in the form of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). Visit to 28 schools and meeting with School Management Committees (SMCs) and teachers have produced a pool of around 2500 population’s short data set to choose potential samples among. Among 2500 population we have chosen 1292 sample to conduct a baseline survey (panel 1). Finally, after sorting out through rigorous scrutiny we have conducted baseline survey
The imbalance between credit repayments and income seasonality creates a major challenge for the (MFIs) working in the developing countries like Bangladesh. Because, the credit institutions are being afraid of getting the money back after the sufferings of people during a certain period of time, (September 20-December 20) when food deprivation phenomenon monga prevails in northern rural part of Bangladesh. There has been a wide range of studies on this microcredit repayment system around the world. In connection with these Dr. Abu S. Shonchoy and Dr. Kurosaki Takashi from Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) has jointly initiated a research work
