WiLCAS Public Data Release

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Published: Friday, 12 March 2021 12:00

Integgra is pleased to announce a public data release for the Bangladesh Women’s Life Choices and Attitudes Survey (WiLCAS) through the Harvard Dataverse.

WiLCAS is a nationally representative survey of women in Bangladesh conducted in 2014 by the University of Kent and the University of Malaya for the research project “The Role of Secondary Schooling and Gender Norms in the Long-Term Opportunities and Choices of Rural Bangladeshi Women” funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 

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Round Table Discussion on Child Marriage Law in Bangladesh

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Published: Friday, 28 June 2019 12:00

On 30th April, 2019, Integgra researchers Niaz Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj participated in a round table discussion on the 2017 Child Marriage Restraint Act at the Daily Star Conference Hall in Dhaka, jointly hosted by Population Council and BLAST (Bangladesh Legal Aid Services Trust) in collaboration with the University of Kent, UK and the University of Malaya, Malaysia.

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What did Access to Microfinance mean for Women's Work?

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Published: Wednesday, 01 July 2020 12:00

The last decade of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first century saw a rapid expansion of microfinance in developing countries, targeting women in poor households with the aim of increasing their engagement in economic activities and entrepreneurship. What effect did these programmes have on the nature of women’s work, and social attitudes towards different forms of economic participation by women?

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Launch of New Study on Child Marriage Law on Social Attitudes

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Published: Sunday, 28 January 2018 12:00

Integgra researchers Niaz Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj, together with Dr Amrit Amirapu at the University of Kent, have received a research grant from the Economic Development and Institutions Research Programme to study the potential effects of the new child marriage law in Bangladesh (Child Marriage Registration Act 2017) on social attitudes towards child marriage practices.

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