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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender...
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This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics … participants derive a variety of benefits from microcredit: It helps them to earn income and consume more, accumulate assets …, invest in children's schooling, and be lifted out of poverty. This is not to say that non-participants have failed to …
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