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The paper lays out basic design options for infrastructure policy. It first sketches mechanisms to asses demand. Then it sets out a hierarchy of issues starting with choice of market structure followed by conduct regulation. Ownership options are largely a function of market structure choices....
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When food prices spike in countries with large numbers of poor people, public intervention is essential to alleviate hunger and malnutrition. For governments, this is also a case of political survival. Government actions often take the form of direct interventions in the market to stabilize food...
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Unable to cope fully with steadily climbing world oil prices since mid-2009, many of the 65 countries reviewed in this paper have progressed slowly or even reversed course in reforming pricing of petroleum products. End-user prices in July 2012 varied by two orders of magnitude across the...
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This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes -- reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints -- were meant to partially insulate...
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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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survey data in Bangladesh shows that per capita consumption was higher in remittance-receiving households than in others …
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Bangladesh. It presents monthly data on national electricity consumption since 1993 and daily consumption data since February …
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entrepreneurs. Using rich data from one of the major migrant-sending countries globally, Bangladesh, it provides evidence on how …, thanks to faster accumulation of savings overseas. Given the similarities shared by Bangladesh and other major migrant …
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