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Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
Bandiera, Oriana - 2014
The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...
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Can basic entrepreneurship transform the economic lives of the poor?
Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin; Das, Narayan Chandra; … - 2013
; structural change ; poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740337
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The Economic Lives of the Poor
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2010
describe their patterns of consumption and income generation as well as their access to markets and publicly provided …
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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...
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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India
Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial determinant of human capital and economic standing throughout adulthood. We examine the effects of a policy shift, the Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted...
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Creating Good Employment Opportunities for the Rural Sector
Foster, Andrew D. - 2013
infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural areas of low-income countries. Particular …
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Creating Good Employment Opportunities for the Rural Sector
Foster, Andrew D. - 2013
infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural areas of low-income countries. Particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167924
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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014
consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID …)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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Achieving Bangladesh's tourism potential : linkages to export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy"
Honeck, Dale; Akhtar, Md. Shoaib - 2014 - Manuscript date: 26 August, 2014
priorities of export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy". It is well-known that Bangladesh is under … strong pressure to diversify its exports, to generate new employment (especially in rural areas), and to respond to critical …
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