Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades … public sector interventions, notably reproductive health and immunization, supported by external assistance from the World … Bank and other agencies. By contrast, nutrition began to improve only in the 1990s and remains high. The Bangladesh …

On average, infant mortality rates are lower in more industrialized nations, yet health and mortality worsened during …

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 …

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

Over the issue of the difference or otherwise between economically active children and home-care children, there are … two competing claims by researchers. One holds that economically active children and home- care children are the same in … that both groups of children have identical determinants, while the other contradicts this view. Using the probit analysis …

Estimates of child poverty are based on the percentage of children living in poor households, which ignores the issue … is not possible to report figures relating to the number of children living in poverty. Yet analysts using income and …

Child poverty matters directly as children constitute a large share of the population and indirectly for future … individual and national well- being. Developed country measures of child poverty are dominated by income-poverty, although health … children. Moreover, a broader range of factors than material well-being matter for child development; family and community play …

portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of …

technology. Even today less than half of the school-age children are going to school. Some common but many of them disputed … perceptions about lower school-enrolment rate, at the household level are that the younger age children, younger in their brothers … and sisters, male children, and the children from educated parents; high-income households; smaller households; wealthy …

This research demonstrates that human capital accumulation by the poor is only possible if a minimum level of health … and health care, and finance is not available for this purpose, a poverty trap exists with low health, education and … nutrition and health impairing human potential, and in particular early child development. This link between health and …