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The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...
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Country statistical capacity is increasingly recognized as crucial for development, but no academic study exists that reviews the available assessment tools. We offer the first review study that fills this gap, paying particular attention to data and practical measurement challenges. We compare...
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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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"The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 …
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This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where …
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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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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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We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …
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