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When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by using convergence hypothesis. Earlier studies that examined regional disparities of development used per capita State Net Domestic Product (SNDP) as an important proxy for...
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This paper applies insights from theoretical and empirical research in economic growth to analyze the impacts of policies affecting fertility, migration and human capital accumulation on growth and poverty alleviation. It underlines the tradeoff between having more children and investing more...
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universal healthcare coverage in Bangladesh. Lack of scientific study on designing such scheme, in the Bangladesh context … health insurance schemes (offered to various corporate houses) of some reputed insurance companies in Bangladesh. In addition …
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safer for women has been slow in many developing countries. Though Bangladesh has achieved commendable progress in reducing … Bangladesh during 2004-2011. We employ rich-poor ratio, concentration curve and concentration index to examine the trends of … inequities in ANC and delivery care services using the latest three waves of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. This study …
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Overall inflation in Bangladesh saw a surge in inflation rate amid rising trend of global commodity prices in the last … Bangladesh. Descriptive analysis suggests that moderate inflation (e.g., 6-7%) is favourable for the development of the financial … performance of the financial sector in Bangladesh. The analysis broadly suggests that increasing management and operational …
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-prone coastal community in Bangladesh. It applies the state-and-transition model, a widely used applied ecology model, to (1) assess …
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Agriculture is a major economic activity in Bangladesh. It currently employs around 50 percent of country’s labor force … economy through various channels. It is important to note that, at the WTO, Bangladesh, as an LDC, is not bound to undertake … measures might have important negative implications for the net food importing countries like Bangladesh. It is also important …
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,800 rural households from 12 districts of Bangladesh over the period 2007–2010, we estimated a three-stage hierarchical logit …–2008 unequivocally aggravated food insecurity in the rural areas of Bangladesh in 2008; (2) there was some weak evidence to suggest that …
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Addressing extreme poverty remains a key challenge for development in Bangladesh. BRAC initiated the “Challenging the …
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