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Impact Evaluation of a Large-Scale Rural Sanitation Project in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A. - 2017
Lack of sanitation and poor hygiene behavior cause a tremendous disease burden among the poor. This paper evaluates the impact of the Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing project in Indonesia, where about 11 percent of children have diarrhea in any two-week period and more than 33,000...
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Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse Productivity Hypothesis
Larson, Donald F. - 2020
In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo economies of scale -- a premise supported by the often...
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Labor Markets and Income Generation in Rural Argentina
Verner, Dorte - 2016
This paper addresses three areas of the rural labor market-employment, labor wages, and agriculture producer incomes. Findings show that the poor allocate a lower share of their labor to farm sectors than the nonpoor do, but still around 70 percent work in agriculture, and the vast majority of...
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Community Programs and Women's Participation : The Chinese Experience
Coady, David P. - 2017
Using household data specifically collected for the purpose of evaluation, the authors empirically evaluate the impact on household income of a rural program in China that focuses on increasing women's economic and social participation in the local community. They find that the program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966165
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Can Solar Lanterns Improve Youth Academic Performance? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Kudo, Yuya - 2017
This study conducted an experimental intervention in unelectrified areas of northern Bangladesh to investigate the …
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Long-Term Growth Scenarios for Bangladesh
Sinha, Rishabh - 2017
Bangladesh has achieved robust economic growth over the past 10 years, with real GDP growing by more than 6 percent on … forward. A simple growth model calibrated to the Bangladesh economy is used to analyze various growth scenarios. The main …
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Demand for Information on Environmental Health Risk, Mode of Delivery, and Behavioral Change : Evidence from Sonargaon, Bangladesh
Tarozzi, Alessandro - 2020
Millions of villagers in Bangladesh are exposed to arsenic by drinking contaminated water from private wells. Testing … randomized controlled trial conducted in 112 villages in Bangladesh to evaluate the effectiveness of different test selling …
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Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports : Evidence from Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond - 2020
the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) -- spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably … exogenous to Bangladesh, the authors instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. The paper compares …, Bangladesh's export shock was sector specific, limited predominantly to the female-intensive garment and textile sector. The …
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Assessing Deprivation with an Ordinal Variable : Theory and Application to Sanitation Deprivation in Bangladesh
Seth, Suman - 2020
empirical illustration documenting changes in sanitation deprivation in Bangladesh showcases the measures' ability to identify …
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What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh
Mahmud, Minhaj - 2020
This study uses a choice experiment among 2,000 workers in Bangladesh to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for job …
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