flows generally follow a rational pattern despite the fact that market indicators indicate that rice trade across regions is …

market integration. …

/or quality grading systems and, if so, how they assess that unobservable quality, using a rice retail market in Madagascar as an … causes of the rice market's spatial disintegration. Thus, quality standards and grading systems will be necessary to increase … the market's efficiency. We hypothesize that consumers and retailers use product origin and rice name as observable …

China’s huge domestic market is constantly expanding, and is low-end demand oriented and highly dispersed. The … domestic market-based development of China’s industrial cluster, however, is not only a quantitative expansion, but has also … make the case that under modern China’s market conditions, the local public sector is the crucial driving force for …

for granted that in most developing countries, due to the limited domestic market and poor traditional commercial networks … institution . the transaction market . began to appear in most clusters. These markets within the clusters get connected to those … of a powerful market network-based distribution system which has played a crucial role for China’s industrial clusters …

We use a panel dataset from Bangladesh to examine the relationship between fertility and the adoption of electricity …

river islands of northern Bangladesh where no grid-based electricity is available. We found that solar lanterns …

In 2000, Ramadan school vacation coincided with the original annual exam period of December in Bangladesh. This forced … demand on school dropout in Bangladesh among the children from agricultural households. …

northwest part of Bangladesh, this study quantifies the factors that influence such migration decisions. Among other results, we …