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Loan regulation and child labor in rural India

Dāśagupta, Bāsaba; Zimmermann, Christian - 2012

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal and informal lending, human capital accumulation, adverse selection, and differentiated risk types. Specifically, we build a model economy that replicates the current outcome with...

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Recovery performance of primary agriculture credit societies in India : an assessment

Mazumder, Rabin; Chakravarty, Chandrasekhar; Bhandari, … - 2014

Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having direct contact with the rural people and meet their...

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Liquidity or capital? : the impacts of easing credit constraints in rural Mexico

Aparicio, Gabriela; Bobić, Vida; De Olloqui, Fernando; … - 2021

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of easing credit constraints for rural producers in Mexico through loans provided by a national public development finance institution (DFI). In contrast to most of the existing literature, the study focuses on the effect of medium-sized loans over a two-...

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The (hidden) financial flows of terrorist organizations : a literature review and some preliminary empirical results

Schneider, Friedrich - 2010

In this paper the financial means of international (mostly Islamistic) terror organizations are analysed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...

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Does a food for education program affect school outcomes? : The Bangladesh case

Meng, Xin (contributor); Ryan, Jim G. (contributor) - 2007

"The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this …

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Family planning as an investment in development : evaluation of a program's consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen (contributor); Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2007

"The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 …

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Early childbirth, health inputs and child mortality : recent evidence from Bangladesh

Maitra, Pushkar (contributor); Pal, Sarmistha (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where …

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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China

Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011

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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School access, resources, and learning outcomes : evidence from a non-formal school program in Bangladesh

Dang, Hai-anh; Sarr, Leopold; Asadullah, Niaz - 2011

– in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools …

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Poisoning the mind : arsenic contamination of drinking water wells and children's educational achievement in rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2011

Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and … well-being ; Bangladesh …

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