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It is often assumed that poverty reduction would lead to gender equality. Research however, points to the opposite, namely, that increasing prosperity can have perverse gender effects . It is therefore important to make a conceptual distinction between projects that seek to reduce poverty and...
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This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working-age (15–64) population over the next several decades. It is important to determine...
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scholarship in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. She also examines the feminist engagement in terms of political â …€˜practice’ with nationalism and the nation-state in India. Indian feminists have been critical of the class character of nationalism …
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describes a new CGE model for South Asia, covering India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan, which incorporates … infrastructure projects in the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) region, connecting Nepal, eastern India …, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. This paper uses computable general equilibrium (CGE) methods to address how these infrastructure …
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Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Under the SAFTA agreement, many of the garment items were on India’s sensitive lists and did … not face concessional treatment. Though many of the items have been subsequently removed from India’s sensitive list, the … imports of these items to India have not increased significantly. The paper uses secondary data to examine the revealed …
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Journalism in South Asia is facing many challenges with physical security being a major issue in most of the region. Several countries may have improved relatively due to decisions to reduce the risks involved in reporting highly sensitive stories. Though all countries in South Asia have formal...
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survey on production and marketing of coconut and coconut product in India was undertaken. This report attempt to study the …
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Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China-India …
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trade in the long run. Like some selected Asian countries (Vietnam, China and South Korea) except India, the terms of trade … of Bangladesh has been in falling almost continuously. Bangladesh’s trade performance has improved and gaining momentum … despite the TOT deterioration. Bangladesh is also experiencing a net welfare gain from trade due to its increasing market …
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The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of evidence and analysis, from UNICEF and partners, that scarcity and dispossession...
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