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First Solution: a safety-first plan backfires

Ballard, Roger - 2007

facilities to transfer money back to their family in Bangladesh. In June 2007, the company went into liquidation owing nearly 2 … million pounds to the public, the majority of whom were from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. …

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CREATING A MARKET OF PROPERTY RIGHTS: THE CASE OF CZECHOSLOVAK PRIVATIZATION

STREJCEK, Ivo; ZEMAN, Martin - 2017

Year 2016 marked the 25th anniversary of an introduction of the main measures of the Czechoslovak transformation process, which moved the country from a centrally planned economy towards a free market economy. Approach to the transformation varied among economists, who promoted two main ways of...

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Dams

Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - 2005

The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies the productivity and distributional effects of large dams in India. To account for endogenous...

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Gross National Happiness: Can Environmental Economics Offer a Way Forward?

Sharrock, Guy - 1999

The aim of this article is to suggest that economic planning concepts and tools currently exist which might be of practical interest to those individuals working within the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) who are responsible for interpreting and applying in practice the concept of Gross...

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The export garments industry of Bangladesh with particular reference to women

Rock, Marilyn I. - 2002

After gaining independence from Pakistan in 1971, the Bangladesh state moved from a mainly state-managed sector to a … the mid-1970s to later become the most lucrative export earner for Bangladesh, underlining the fact that it has become an … rural areas of Bangladesh. This is socially significant because, for the first time, it marked the entry of Bangladeshi …

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Antecedents of firm export performance: the role of export promotion programs

Shamsuddoha, A. K. - 2005

a sample survey of exporting firms drawn from three major export oriented industries in Bangladesh. Structural Equation …

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Farm productivity and efficiency in rural Bangladesh: The role of education revisited

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Rahman, Sanzidur - 2005

This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on … findings for rural education programs in Bangladesh. …

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Co-deterministic relationship between ownership concentration and corporate performance: Evidence from an emerging economy

Al Farooque, Omar; van Zijl, Tony; Dunstan, Keitha; … - 2010

Bangladesh and thus examines the arbitrary moves by the regulatory bodies, in the name of promoting 'good corporate governance …/growth in emerging countries such as Bangladesh.Practical implications - This new evidence from an emerging market enhances our …

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Farm Productivity and Efficiency in Rural Bangladesh: The Role of Education Revisited

Asadullah, M. Niaz; Rahman, Sanzidur - 2006

This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm pro duction in Bangladesh using a large dataset on … externality benefit of schooling. We discuss the implication of these findings for rural education programs in Bangladesh. …

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Access to Microfinance: Does it Matter for Profit Efficiency Among Small Scale Rice Farmers in Bangladesh?

Sumelius, John; Islam, K.M. Zahidul; Sipilainen, Timo - 2011

in Bangladesh. An extended Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier profit function wasused to assess profit efficiency and … profit loss of rice farmers in Bangladesh in a survey data of 360 farmsthroughout the 2008-2009 growing seasons. Model …

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