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sanitation and washing facilities. The study finds that in Kazakhstan, households with higher incomes generally have better …
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People's Republic of China and India further highlighting the critical role of cereals trade in population urbanization in …
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Given that India’s urban areas contribute to nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product, even though they account … for only 31% of the country’s population, they have been rightly called the engines of India’s growth. In this paper, I … competitiveness of India’s cities. This paper uses standard Census of India data at the level of the city, to compute location …
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Typhoons, floods, and other weather-related shocks can inflict suffering on local populations and create life-threatening conditions for the poor. Yet, natural disasters also present a development opportunity to upgrade capital stock, adopt new technologies, enhance the risk-resiliency of...
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This study offers a comprehensive picture of the rural economy in Bangladesh during the first three months of the lockdown period in comparison with the pre-COVID-19 situation. Using a nationally representative sample (of 2,312 rural households from 62 villages in 56 districts) known as the...
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The Mahabub Hossain Panel Data (MHPD) was initiated in 1988 and maintained by and named after the late Dr. Mahabub Hossain, a well-known agricultural and development economist who led a number of reputed organizations in Bangladesh (Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies and BRAC) and in...
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Exploring data from the urban and migrant household surveys of the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP), this paper dissects the underlying causes of the depressing effect of the hukou system on migrant household consumption into two channels. On one hand, the disentitlement to local urban...
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of education, digital access, and those located in central areas experience greater benefits from digital dividends …
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One of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals−gender parity in all levels of education−is widely considered to … households' education decisions into enrollment, education expenditure, and share of the education expenditure allocated for the … quality of education like private tutoring. We find a strong pro-female bias in school enrollment but pro-male bias in the …
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This paper develops a three-period overlapping-generations model where middle-aged agents care about not only their own lifetime utility but also their old parents’ and children’s well-being. The double altruistic agents choose amounts of intergenerational transfers to their old parents and...
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