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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2012

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …

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The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes : Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine

Hernández-Julián, Rey - 2013

This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine … Bangladesh famine were 32 percent more likely to die within one month of birth compared to their siblings who were not in utero …

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Rural Households in a Changing Climate

Baez, Javier E. - 2012

This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...

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The Poor and the Poorest, Fifty Years on

Gazeley, Ian - 2014

We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first exploitation of the newly-digitised Board of Trade Household...

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Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania

Bardasi, Elena - 2012

survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …

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Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports : Evidence from Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond - 2020

the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably … exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the ….Unlike in other studies, these local labor market effects dissipate quickly. Furthermore, Bangladesh's export shock was sector …

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The Impact of Changing Climate on Children's Nutritional Status in Bangladesh

Hanifi, Syed Manzoor Ahmed; Menon, Nidhiya; Quisumbing, … - 2022

characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the health consequences of rising temperature and relative humidity and …

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Aid, Growth, and Jobs

Fields, Gary S. - 2013

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...

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Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality

Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2019

We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the...

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Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth

Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - 2021

This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....

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