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illustrate their collective impact on poverty in Bangladesh. Analysis is undertaken to identify which factors contributed to the … analysis covers the key drivers of poverty reduction over what has been a remarkable decade for Bangladesh. The report is … global factors affecting country-level outcomes. However, the series of shocks that affected Bangladesh in 2007-2008 did not …
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Bangladesh has made recent progress in reducing poverty, but still faces the reality that roughly half its citizens …
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interest to consumers. "Golden rice" has been genetically engineered to contain a higher level of vitamin A and thereby boost … of adopting both types of innovation in Asia, including its impact on rice producers and other consumers. They do so … gains could be dwarfed by the welfare gains resulting from the potential health-enhancing attributes of golden rice which …
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This publication discusses the challenges faced in accelerating access to improved water and sanitation services beyond the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. It examines the private sector provision of piped water services and on-site sanitation services in rural areas and small towns,...
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"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth is crucial in determining a child's activities, but...
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"By developing a simple theoretical model of the impact of market integration on sectoral output and employment in a poor rural setting, this paper demonstrates that trade can induce asymmetric growth. Under certain, plausible, assumptions, the non-farm sector will grow much faster than the...
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"The authors analyze five rounds of National Sample Survey data covering 1983, 1987/8, 1993/4, 1999/0, and 2004/5 to explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during this period. The authors provide region-level estimates...
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