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There are historical and institutional reasons behind our economic problems like poverty and environmental damage but it is not acceptable if they persist in years to come. The strategic use of information by individual economic agents establishes a biasing effect on our economy. In case of...
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Recently, microfinance has come under increasing criticism raising questions of the validity of iconic studies which have justified the microfinance phenomenon. This paper applies propensity score matching (PSM), which has become widely used for the analysis of observational data, to the study...
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major economies of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are selected from the former region and Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand …
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Bangladesh. After a brief description of the stipend program, we examine both nationwide and project-level data on student … program had a major effect in closing the gender gap, thereby accelerating the trend that had already existed in Bangladesh …
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This paper provides a critical review of aid effectiveness in Bangladesh. Focusing on the contributions of major donors … adequate and reliable quantitative data. Foreign aid has had a mixed performance in Bangladesh. The responsibility for the … this middle-income status is paved with many obstacles: policy, infrastructure, and weak governance. Even though Bangladesh …
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This paper examines weak form efficiency in the stock markets of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh; and the …. Weak form efficiency is supported by the classical unit root tests, however, it is not strongly supported for Bangladesh …
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The objective of this paper is to estimate the impacts of medium- and long-term participation in microcredit programs. It utilises a new and large panel dataset collected from treatment and control households from 1997 to 2005. The data enables us to identify continuing participants in the...
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Non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) represent one of the most important parts of a financial system. In Bangladesh … of 24 NBFIs stood Tk.6901.8 million (BB, 2002). The NBFIs sector in Bangladesh consisting primarily of the development …
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rural Bangladesh. Although all of rural Bangladesh was eventually covered by this program, it was not introduced at the same …
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This article examines the role of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Bangladesh in pushing the army in a … peacekeeping mission has such a strong influence on the Bangladesh army and assesses the implications for future political … out. In this sense, the recourse to the army to bring in democracy in Bangladesh was not the best solution to the …
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