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Using nationally representative survey data from rural Bangladesh, this paper examines the relationship between women …
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uses a field experiment in Bangladesh to assess the impacts of BCC, focusing on nutrition training (providing information …
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index insurance product designed to help smallholder farmers in Bangladesh manage risk to crop yields and the increased …
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Participation in household decisions and control over assets are often used as indicators of bargaining power. Yet spouses do not necessarily provide the same answers to questions about these topics. We examine differences in spouses' answers to questions regarding who participates in decisions...
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This paper focuses on rural nonfarm development via the route of salaried employment. The analysis is at the rural household level for two types of households: “mixed” households whereby some workers remain in the farm sector and others pursue nonfarm activities and the rural households who...
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dataset on jute producers in Bangladesh, we test whether out-migration of household members and perceived labor shortages are …
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Fish play a major role in the Bangladesh food system. Fish production, processing and marketing are major source of …
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countries including Bangladesh, and its socioeconomic implications are topic of interest in policy debates. This study is an … food safety practice in Bangladesh. Our analysis indicates that contract farmers are more likely to have better access to …
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-being, using an analytical framework we develop based on the work of Akerlof and Kranton. Analyzing data from rural Bangladesh, we …
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example, Bangladesh is one country where aquaculture has increased almost eightfold since the early 1990s. This growth has … disaggregated estimates. The results show that, between 2000 and 2010, about 12 percent of Bangladesh's overall poverty reduction …
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