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Exploring the relationship between climate change and rice yield in Bangladesh: An analysis of time series data

Sarker, Md. Abdur Rashid; Alam, Khorshed; Gow, Jeff - In: Agricultural Systems 112 (2012) C, pp. 11-16

main climate variables (e.g., maximum temperature, minimum temperature and rainfall) for Bangladesh. We use time series …

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Couples’ reports of household decision-making and the utilization of maternal health services in Bangladesh

Story, William T.; Burgard, Sarah A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2403-2411

Bangladesh. Most studies of the predictors of reproductive health service utilization focus on women’s reports; however, men are … their partners. Husbands’ involvement in decision-making is particularly important in Bangladesh because men often dominate … household decisions to predict use of antenatal and skilled delivery care, using data from the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and …

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Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship

Rijkers, Bob; Costa, Rita - In: World Development 40 (2012) 12, pp. 2411-2426

Using matched household-enterprise-community datasets from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, this paper …

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Does RDA-credit differ from others’ microcredit? A case study of Bangladesh

Pramanik, M.A. Majid; Qian, Lu - In: E3 Journal of Business Management and Economics. 3 (2012) 11, pp. 330-340

Although Bangladesh is the pioneer adopter of modern microcredit approach but the credit mechanisms are not similar for … all Microfinance Service Providers. This paper describes the credit mechanisms of Grameen Bank, Thengamara Mohila Sabuj … Sangha, Association for Social Advancement, and RDA-credit. The article found that all selected microfinance service …

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Credit Program Participation and Decline in Violence: Does Self-Selection Matter?

Chin, Yoo-Mi - In: World Development 40 (2012) 8, pp. 1690-1699

Studies on the effects of gendered policy design in microcredit on spousal violence generally suffer from self-selection and under-reporting bias. I overcome such shortcomings by constructing a new measure of violence. The new measure indicates whether there was a decline in violence by...

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Does RDA-credit differ from others’ microcredit? A case study of Bangladesh

Pramanik, M.A. Majid; Qian, Lu - In: E3 Journal of Business Management and Economics. 3 (2012) 10, pp. 330-340

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Worker Remittances: The Human Face of Globalization

Orozco, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This report is a comparative study of worldwide transfer costs to nine countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and specifically at costs for immigrants to send money from major sending countries including from the United States. It also compares these international trends with costs and trends of...

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DO BANGLADESH AND PERU REACH UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS BY 2015? A COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

Ahmed, Saleh; Ypanaque, Juan Manuel Pantoja - In: Regional Science Inquiry 3 (2011) 1, pp. 73-84

by 2015 in Bangladesh and Peru, where ‘development’ takes place in reality. The increase of universal primary school …

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Is Knowledge Shared within Households? Theory and Evidence for Bangladesh

Basu, Kaushik; Narayan, Ambar; Ravallion, Martin - Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) - 2001

data for Bangladesh we find strong external effects of education on individual earnings. Holding a range of personal …

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DO BANGLADESH AND PERU REACH UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS BY 2015? A COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

Ahmed, Saleh; Ypanaque, Juan Manuel Pantoja - In: Regional Science Inquiry III (2011) 1, pp. 73-84

by 2015 in Bangladesh and Peru, where ‘development’ takes place in reality. The increase of universal primary school …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659295