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change ; uncertainty ; stochastic simulation ; CGE model ; agriculture ; Bangladesh …-wide model of Bangladesh, we estimate and decompose damages from historical climate variability and future anthropogenic climate … distribution of damages and slows Bangladesh's long- run shift (adaptation) into dry (winter) season rice production. -- climate …
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different rounds of Labour Force Survey data of Bangladesh and combined it with occupation network data of the United States …
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pandemic. We create pre- and post-COVID panel datasets for three populations in Bangladesh and Nepal, leveraging experimental …
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This paper analyses the pathways of technology diffusion through social networks, following the experimental introduction of new technologies in Guinea-Bissau. In the context of an agricultural extension project, we document both the direct effects of this intervention and subsequent diffusion...
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interventions in the agriculture sector have made important contributions to GDP growth. This growth has been accompanied by a … structural transformation that Ethiopia has shown in the last decade, including a continuous decline in the role of agriculture … and rise in that of services, have led to reallocation of jobs and labour from low-productivity agriculture to more …
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This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South Africa using anonymized tax data. We add to the minimum wage literature by differentiating employment effects resulting from the destruction of existing jobs and from the slower...
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. This paper provides new evidence on effects of the Female Secondary Stipend Programme in Bangladesh as an exogenous …
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The Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of … agriculture in GDP has declined, while the significance of industry and service sectors has increased. These structural changes … overwhelmingly salient component of Bangladesh's export composition, this is due primarily to the rapid expansion of the ready …
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Those fragile states whose stagnation is so tenacious despite generous aid programs, and substantial and costly interventions, are stuck in a 'fragility trap.' Caught in a low-level equilibrium, trapped states appear to be in a perpetual political and economic limbo that can last for years and...
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from Bangladesh, South Africa, and Singapore, we trace the drivers of policy change in these contexts and how the gendered …
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