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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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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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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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U-shaped Paths of Consumption and Physical Capital in Lucas-type Growth Models

Nili, Farhad - EconWPA - 2002

This paper considers transitional dynamics of consumption and physical capital in Lucas-type growth models. We find that when the ratio of physical to human capital is sufficiently high, it is optimal for both consumption and physical capital to fall for a finite period and then rise along their...

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"Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy."

Ackerman, Frank; Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001

Market based policies are fast becoming the recommended policy panacea for all the world’s environmental problems. Implicit in such recommendations is the theory that free markets, adjusted for externalities, can always create an “efficient” allocation of society’s resources. As a...

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Economic Analysis of Rural Land Administration Projects

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

As part of its efforts to improve the rural economies of its client countries, the World Bank is supporting programs to strengthen land administration and undertake land reform. Land administration projects can include a variety of activities. Usually, the most expensive and that which is most...

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IE WP 02/04 Technology and the environment: an evolutionary approach to sustainable technological change

Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier - EconWPA - 2005

Can the individual actions of agents spontaneously move the system out of a state where it is locked into an environmentally inferior technology, or is coordination from outside the system necessary in the form of public intervention? More importantly, even if the system were able to make the...

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Water Rights Arrangements in Australia and Overseas

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

There are significant differences in the way water rights are defined, allocated and administered in Australia and overseas. This paper includes comparisons of the arrangements for managing water rights against accepted best practice principles for South Au stralia, Queensland, NSW, Victoria...

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DETERMINANTS OF FORMAL OR INFORMAL ACCESS TO FOREST RESOURCES AND MONETARY VALUE OF ACCESS IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF FOREST RESERVE COMMUNITIES IN ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA.

Eric, Eboh; Chinedu, Ujah Oliver - EconWPA - 2005

One argument against forest reservation is that people want forest reserve resources and would not deliberately destroy it. In contrast, the basic assumption underlying forest reservation in Nigeria is that local communities cannot conserve and manage forests sustainably. How well this strategy...

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MEASUREMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS OF FORESTS IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF FOREST RESERVES IN ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA

Eboh, Eric; Ujah, Oliver - EconWPA - 2005

How has forest reserves in Enugu State faired given the sustainability- threatening signals surrounding it? Using the … criteria and indicators (C & I) defined for the Nigeria context by Eboh (2000), this study evaluated the sustainability status …

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