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Does women's status matter for food security? Evidence from Bangladesh

Razzaque, Mohammad A.; Toufique, Mohammad Mokammel Karim - 2007

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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Domestic violence against women: Its determinants and implications for gender resource allocation

Toufique, Mohammad Mokammel Karim; Razzaque, Mohammad A. - 2007

Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper explores the determinants of domestic violence against women as well as its implications for the resources allocated to women. The findings reveal that higher education of women and that of their husbands, and better socioeconomic...

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Remittances and asset accumulation in Bangladesh: A study using generalized propensity score

Chowdhury, Mehdi; Radicic, Dragana - 2018

Drawing on a sample of households in Bangladesh, we utilize the Generalized Propensity Score (GPS) method to …

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Socioeconomic impacts of cross-border transport infrastructure development in South Asia

Gilbert, John P.; Banik, Nilanjan - 2010

, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. This paper uses computable general equilibrium (CGE) methods to address how these infrastructure … describes a new CGE model for South Asia, covering India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan, which incorporates … accruing to India in absolute terms, but the largest relative gains to Nepal, followed by Bangladesh and Sri Lanka when the …

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Aid and governance in vulnerable states : Bangladesh and Pakistan since 1971

Khan, Mushtaq H. - 2013

Bangladesh and Pakistan had very divergent experiences with aid after 1971. Politics in Pakistan was less inclusive in … to Pakistan had very negative effects on its political and economic evolution. In contrast in Bangladesh the less …

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Households' characteristics and the modes of remittances in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Mehdi - 2014

The modes of remittances of households in Bangladesh have been categorised as 'No Remit- tances', 'Internal Remittances …

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Foreign direct investment, trade, and economic growth : an empirical analysis of Bangladesh

Hussain, Mohammed Ershad; Haque, Mahfuzul - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 2, pp. 1-14

GDP for Bangladesh with the help of annual time series data for 1973 to 2014. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM … of GDP per capita. Because FDI and trade are two important components of economic growth in Bangladesh, it is important …

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