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Maintaining Momentum to 2015? An impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh

White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo; Blondal, Nina; … - EconWPA - 2005

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades … Bank and other agencies. By contrast, nutrition began to improve only in the 1990s and remains high. The Bangladesh …

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Environmental and Natural Resource Degradation in Intensive Agriculture in Bangladesh

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

in Bangladesh have tended to mask evidence of declining productivity. Although data are weak, numerous sources of …-term trials by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) also indicate that intensive rice cultivation can result in declining … Research Institute (IRRI). There is considerable debate over the exact causes of declining productivity. In Bangladesh, the …

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Returns to education in Bangladesh

Asadullah, M Niaz - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reports labour market returns to education in Bangladesh using data from recent nationwide household survey …

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International Mobility of Highly-Qualified People in APEC

Gera, Surendra; Songsakul, Thitima - EconWPA - 2005

An important aspect of the global knowledge-based economy is the emergence of a new trend where certain groups of highly-qualified workers have become increasingly mobile internationally. Reaching the goal of being more innovative economy requires that the highly-qualified workforce is of...

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The Changing Concept of Financial Risk

LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004

financial risk based on asset classes only is ready for a epistemological change. Currently, the definition of financial risk … suffers from three major deficiencies: (1) financial risk is insufficiently measured by the conventional second - order … moments; (2) financial risk is assumed to be stable and all distribution moments are assumed to be time-invariant; and (3 …

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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...

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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

The definition of arrangement infringement has been given. Several characteristics of hurricanes as large-scale events and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and investment problems have been formulated.

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Gains and losses. The same or different choices?

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Arrangements (agreements, contracts, projects, etc.) are widespread economic events and are the fundamental concept of the economic theory. Infringements (breaches, modifications, changes, etc.) of arrangements are common and have a significant importance for the economic theory. For many years...

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Do bilateral investment treaties increase foreign direct investment to developing countries?

Neumayer, Eric; Spess, Laura - EconWPA - 2004

Foreign investors are often skeptical toward the quality of the domestic institutions and the enforceability of the law in developing countries. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) guarantee certain standards of treatment that can be enforced via binding investor-to- state dispute settlement...

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Scientific Revolution. A Farewell to EconWPA.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

A revolution in economics. Is it possible? Is its concept a transition from ideal to real economics? The way to the transition may be a new aspect of uncertainty. Problems, which can be solved, research fields, which can be augmented or created, and fields of applications in practical economy...

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