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Can the clothing sector be a driver of export diversification and growth for today's low-income countries as it was in the past for countries that have graduated into middle income? This paper assesses this issue taking into account key changes to the market for clothing: the emergence of India...
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The end of the Multi-fiber Arrangement/Agreement on Textiles and Clothing in 2005 was a major policy change that affected the allocation of global apparel productions well as the lives of workers involved in this sector. Since the apparel industry is often the major female employer in developing...
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Preferential trade arrangements should be evaluated by analyzing their effect on prices, rather than the total value of trade, as emphasized in the theoretical literature but rarely implemented empirically. The authors analyze the impact of the unilateral preferences granted by the U.S....
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The authors explore the links between the investment climate and firm-level productivity and attempt to identify which dimensions of the investment climate matter most for productivity. Their analysis is based on data collected in a recent investment climate survey of garment and food processing...
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survey data in Bangladesh shows that per capita consumption was higher in remittance-receiving households than in others …
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There has been a proliferation of non-state providers of education services in the developing world. In Bangladesh, for … instance, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee runs more than 40,000 non-formal schools that cater to school-drop outs from … (Islamic faith schools). Most madrasa high schools in Bangladesh are financed by the sate and include a modern curriculum …
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Using individual level employment data from Bangladesh, this paper presents empirical evidence on the relative … Bangladesh. …
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Using household level data from Bangladesh, this paper examines the differences in the rates of return to household …, causing returns differences between the regions to persist. To reduce regional inequality in welfare in Bangladesh, the …
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Using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women, this paper examines norms about gender equality in education for children and adults. Among the main findings are that gender education gap norms have changed: younger generations of women are more positive about female vs. male...
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. Results from controlled experiments in Bangladesh are analyzed to test whether changes in these determinants can have …
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