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The paper developed a methodology for classifying workers into formal and informal employment using the 2005 Bangladesh … to assume that the remaining workers are engaged informally. Results show that 87.71% of the workers in Bangladesh are …
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poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the …
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-wide model of Bangladesh, we estimate and decompose damages from historical climate variability and future anthropogenic climate … distribution of damages and slows Bangladesh's long- run shift (adaptation) into dry (winter) season rice production. …
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Global food price hikes during 2007 and 2008 resulted in a sharp rise in staple food prices in Bangladesh. The poor and … studies indicated that the adverse effects of the food price hike in Bangladesh were primarily manifested by the significant … rise in the number of households falling below the poverty line income. At the political front, Bangladesh was run by an …
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The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia, which houses 60 per cent of the world's slum dwellers. Donors have been slow to respond to the urban challenge, however, both in their funding patterns and their priorities....
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-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …
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implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …
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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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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 …
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This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered … proportion of children sent to each school type. Using a unique dataset on secondary school age children from rural Bangladesh …
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