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This report comprises of eleven sessions: introduction; definition of disability - questions for discussion; new thinking on disability measurement; from census to surveys; policy dimensions of disability measurement - Brazil; good questions and bad questions; developing a matrix of functioning;...
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In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing … poverty conditions among its vast rural population. Astonishing growth rates in Bangladesh, particularly during 1990s, created … of the twenty-first century reinforced this trend as the Bangladesh numbers continued to grow impressively; in India, a …
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The chapter wise synopsis of the report is as follows: chapter one: (present chapter) provides the reader with an overview of the project, its scope, and its objectives. It also provides the reader with an understanding of key concepts related to the project. Chapter two: describes exposure data...
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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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This book describes how Bangladesh transformed its food markets and food policies to free the country from the constant … and led to policy changes. The case of Bangladesh also has more general relevance as a study of the outcomes of a market …
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This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the South Asia region. Macroeconomic indicators such as population, gross domestic product and gross domestic...
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The study analyzed financial market integration in the five countries of South Asia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri …. But for Bangladesh and Sri Lanka they are of different order. The study used Engle Granger (1987) two step methods to …
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This paper develops a framework to analyse the determinants of the long term growth rate of Bangladesh. It is based on … Bangladesh, until the 1990s was primarily due to factor accumulation. Since then, however, TFP has made a small positive … effect. Using our results on the determinants of TFP we examine policy options to double per capita income of Bangladesh in …
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, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, covering the period from 1980 to 2003. The analysis is done with the help of tables …
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in the South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. For the efficiency analysis we used non parametric … eight MFIs from Pakistan, six MFIs from Bangladesh and five MFIs from India are at the efficient frontier under variable … returns to scale. The technical efficiency figures for Pakistan, Bangladesh and India are 0.395, 0.087, and 0.28, respectively …
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