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In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...
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-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non …. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …
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We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law. We study the conditions under which a state of law can be...
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"The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this …
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This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The … of child income as well as in the demographic composition. -- child poverty ; economic growth ; Bangladesh ; China …
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– in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools …
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-poverty program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …
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well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh. Programme impact is assessed on a wide range of monetary and nonmonetary …
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such a validation by leveraging a unique dataset from Bangladesh, which contains information on the fully individualized …
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implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades …. -- fertility ; family planning ; health and development ; program evaluation ; Bangladesh …
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