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Stakeholder dialogue, as an alternative institutional strategy for environmentally and socially sustainable development … stakeholder dialogue as an institutional tool for promoting sustainable development in China, and then presents a pilot program of … stakeholder dialogue recently developed in China -- the community environmental roundtables. Community leaders organize roundtable …
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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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Biases from truncation caused by coresidency restriction have been a challenge for research on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of intergenerational schooling persistence from two data sets show that the intergenerational regression coefficient, the most widely used measure, is severely...
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in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …
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future supply of skilled labor and economic growth. Evidence on these issues from countries such as Bangladesh, India, Kenya …
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survey data in Bangladesh shows that per capita consumption was higher in remittance-receiving households than in others …
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in Bangladesh. They use a sequential dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which takes into account … accumulation effects, allowing for long-run analysis. The study is based on the 2000 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of Bangladesh … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …
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Bangladesh, these services generally are not delivered through formal utilities, but rather through well-functioning informal …, Bangladesh. The analysis finds that access to water and sanitation services is overall quite high, but these services are subject …
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This paper develops a multi-sector, small open economy Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model, which includes the accumulation of human capital, built via public expenditures in education and health. Four possible fiscal rules are examined for total public investment in infrastructure,...
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This survey reviews the current state of the economic literature, assessing the impact of transport policies on growth, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. The findings are summarized and methodologies are critically assessed, especially those dealing with endogeneity...
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