Fertility rates significantly fell over the last decades in Latin America. In order to assess the extent to which these … microdata from national household surveys from seven Latin American countries. We find that changes in fertility rates were … fertility implied smaller families and hence larger per capita incomes. Lower fertility also fostered labor force participation …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …

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 …

poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the …