agricultural productivity, and using subdistrict level panel data from Bangladesh, this paper finds significant positive effects of …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …

2004 survey of some 2,300 households in rural Bangladesh, this paper studies the welfare impacts of household energy use … poverty line, the paper finds that some 58 percent of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor, compared with 45 percent …

program in Bangladesh. The results show access to local politicians is a significant determinant of participation, and can …

impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive …, and technical efficiency in rice production, and that the size of the estimated impacts exceeds that of traditional human …

and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using examples from farmers' maize and rice fields, and comparisons with Asia …

This paper shows how a developing country, Lao PDR, imports high glutinous rice prices by exporting its staple food to … neighboring countries, Vietnam and Thailand. Lao PDR has extensive export controls on rice, generating a sizable difference … since they give rise to price spikes, keep the long-term price of glutinous rice low, and thereby hinder increases in income …

estimates of agricultural distortions to assess its contribution to the price spikes in 1972-74 and 2006-08 for rice and wheat …. The analysis suggests that 45 percent of the increase in rice prices in 2006-08, and 30 percent of the increase in wheat …-insulating behavior by the industrial countries. This provides little stabilizing benefit in the rice market because countries not …