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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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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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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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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...
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Exploring Carbon Pricing in Developing Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis in Ethiopia
Telaye, Andualem; Benitez, Pablo; Tamru, Seneshaw; … - 2019
This study uses a computable general equilibrium model to analyze various policy scenarios for a carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum fuels and kerosene in Ethiopia. The carbon tax starts at $5 per ton of carbon dioxide in 2018 and rises to $30 per ton in 2030. Different...
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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Macroeconomic Monitoring Framework
Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Bayraktar, Nihal; Moreira, … - 2023
This paper presents a macroeconomic approach to monitoring progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. At the heart of our framework is a macro model which captures key linkages between foreign aid, public investment (disaggregated into education,...
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Changing Norms About Gender Inequality in Education : Evidence from Bangladesh
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2016
Using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women, this paper examines norms about gender equality in education for children and adults. Among the main findings are that gender education gap norms have changed: younger generations of women are more positive about female vs. male...
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The Economics of Consanguineous Marriages
Do, Quy-Toan - 2016
dowry payment and consanguinity. An empirical analysis using data from Bangladesh delivers robust results consistent with …
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Firm Productivity in Bangladesh Manufacturing Industries
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2016
The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data …
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Implications of WTO Agreements and Unilateral Trade Policy Reforms for Poverty in Bangladesh : Short Versus Long-Run Impacts
Annabi, Nabil - 2016
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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