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Export led growth, pro-poor or not? : evidence from Madagascar's textile and apparel industry
Nicita, Alessandro - 2006
"Madagascar's textile and apparel industry has been among the fastest growing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fueled by low labor costs, a fairly productive labor force, and preferential access to industrial countries, Madagascar's exports of textile and apparel products grew from about US
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522219
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Who benefits and how much? : how gender affects welfare impacts of a booming textile industry
Nicita, Alessandro - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523406
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Export quotas and policy constraints in the Indian textile and garment industries
Kathuria, Sanjay - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524928
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Survey responses from women workers in Indonesia's textile, garment, and footwear industries
Pangestu, Mari - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010525276
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Welfare impacts of rural electrification : a case study from Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2009
,000 households in rural Bangladesh, this paper studies the welfare impacts of households' grid connectivity. Based on rigorous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394153
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Risks, ex-ante actions and public assistance : impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2009
-ante actions and ex-post responses using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The importance of ex-ante actions … public assistance. The Bangladesh example shows active roles of both ex-ante and ex-post actions. These observations are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394203
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Natural disasters, self-insurance and human capital investment : evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2009
"This paper examines the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production using panel data from Bangladesh …, although disasters have negative impacts on investment. In Bangladesh, children with more biological human capital are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394204
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Poverty and income seasonality in Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2009
"Seasonal poverty in Bangladesh, locally known as monga, refers to seasonal deprivation of food during the pre … targeted poor to contain income seasonality and poverty in this impoverished part of Bangladesh. "--World Bank web site …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394217
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Firm productivity in Bangladesh manufacturing industries
Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2006
"The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522074
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Trade reforms, farm productivity, and poverty in Bangladesh
Klytchnikova, Irina - 2006
"This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of trade reforms in rural areas of Bangladesh. The liberalization of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522082