This paper investigates the effect of drinking arsenic contaminated water on mental health. Drinking water with an … unsafe arsenic level for a prolonged period can lead to arsenicosis, which includes symptoms such as black spots on the skin … and subsequent illnesses such as various cancers. We collected household survey data from Bangladesh, a country with wide …

This paper investigates the effect of drinking arsenic contaminated water on mental health. Drinking water with an … household survey data from Bangladesh, we construct several measures for arsenic contamination that include the actual arsenic … health. To account for potential endogeneity of water source, we take advantage of the quasi-randomness of arsenic …

We estimate an institutional production function to capture incentive induced growth in total factor productivity (TFP …) of rice production in Bangladesh. The incentive component of TFP assists in explaining farmers’ response to incentives …

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and … reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

on a sub-sample of households with children below five years old from the Philippine National Demographic and Health …

line with their policies. In the example of Bangladesh poverty reduction is the principle concern of rural development … analysed, which is going to be implemented in a vast area of Northern Bangladesh. Through agricultural extension a short …

Child labour, particularly in its worst forms, harms the health and general welfare of children. It is considered to be … accepted, scenario particularly in some developing countries. Bangladesh is one of the countries that still face the challenge … poverty. In recent years Bangladesh has taken various measures, including legal measures, to address the situation. This paper …

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 …