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Dynamics of Rural Growth in Bangladesh : Sustaining Poverty Reduction
World Bank Group - 2016
The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored, underappreciated, and largely untold story. The...
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Sector Diagnostic and Analysis of Public Spending in Agriculture and Rural Development
World Bank Group - 2019
) in the context of the macro-trends and issues affecting Croatian agriculture today, the ongoing EU CAP reform process … agriculture and rural development in Croatia, as the country prepares its National Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy and … formulates its Strategic Plan for the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the next programming period …
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Measuring Rural Access : Update 2017/18
World Bank Group - 2019
Transport connectivity is an essential part of the enabling environment for inclusive and sustained growth. In many developing countries, particularly in Africa, most people are still not connected to local, regional, or global markets. Such rural accessibility is crucial to reduce poverty and...
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Thailand Rural Income Diagnostic : Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Farmers
World Bank Group - 2022
This report applies the framework to diagnose the opportunities and constraints faced by the rural economy and households and to assess policy options to address these constraints. The approach builds on four steps. The first step consists in examining the socio-demographic profile and living...
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Monnet's Error?
Guiso, Luigi - 2015
in pro-European sentiments in the EU 15 countries. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty seems to have reduced the pro …
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Misfortune and Mistake : The Financial Conditions and Decision-making Ability of High-cost Loan Borrowers
Carvalho, Leandro - 2019
("misfortunes") or imperfect decisions ("mistakes"). Bank records from Iceland show borrowers are especially illiquid just before …
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The Effect of the Economic Collapse in Iceland on the Probability of Cardiovascular Events
Birgisdóttir, Kristín H. - 2018
We explore whether the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland and subsequent economic crisis affected the probability of …
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Identification and Estimation of Undetected COVID-19 Cases Using Testing Data from Iceland
Aspelund, Karl M. - 2020
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, international testing efforts tended to target individuals whose symptoms and/or jobs placed them at a high presumed risk of infection. Testing regimes of this sort potentially result in a high proportion of cases going undetected. Quantifying this...
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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from PIRLS
Ammermueller, Andreas - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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