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BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which …
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Bangladesh, that provide rural people with access to telecommunications. The two mechanisms that are examined here are considered …-Private Partnership in Peru complies with all of the three criteria, the Business-NGO partnership in Bangladesh complies with the first … Bangladesh. The success of the Business-NGO Partnership implies that the eplication of such a mechanism might require the pre …
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the time scale of FDI to Bangladesh over the period 1975- 2006 and major factors determining foreign companies' decisions … policy framework makes Bangladesh as an attractivedestination of FDI, that has a positive spillover and significant impacts …
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This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the economy and leaves them captives in the so called informal sector, characterized by low productivity and low earning...
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Over the course of the last decade, Bangladesh has implemented a broad-based program of financial and market reforms … paper estimates a savings function to evaluate the impact of various determinants of private savings in Bangladesh …
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The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia, which houses 60 per cent of the world's slum dwellers. Donors have been slow to respond to the urban challenge, however, both in their funding patterns and their priorities....
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-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …
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implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …
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Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper investigates the link between female status and food security. Employing three different indicators of female status – husband’s and wife’s assets brought at marriage, female share of household income and a composite index of...
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This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …
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