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This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level detail, in order to …
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agricultural productivity are given here. [Address at The National Seminar on Productivity in Indian Agriculture at CAB, Pune]. URL …
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agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyses … agriculture and better human development outcomes. Broadly, it examines the impact of climate change on rural livelihoods …, agriculture, food security. It discusses the options for adaptation and mitigation and requirements for implementation at local …
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because their traditional ‘slash and burn’ agriculture is becoming increasingly unsustainable. Farmers in these … cultivation in the hill district of Khagrachari with settled agriculture and new soil conservation techniques based around orchard …
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This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working-age (15–64) population over the next several decades. It is important to determine...
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This study evaluates the economic feasibility of replacing shifting cultivation (Jhum) with settled agriculture and new … Khagrachari hill district of Bangladesh. …
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nation, elaborates on Bangaldesh's achievement in industry, agriculture, education and health and pharmaceuticals. It also …
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Although economic growth has improved in recent years in Bangladesh, the better economic performance has not translated … into satisfactory poverty reduction. The type of growth that matters Bangladesh is the one that creates employment … opportunities especially for the poor. In Bangladesh, monetary policy can create better employment opportunities with a well …
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This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local government programs (land reforms, extension services, and infrastructure investments) in the growth of farm productivity in West Bengal, India between 1981-95. A farm panel from a stratified random sample of...
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The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a result, a large proportion of the poor in India are also chronically poor in terms of duration...
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