Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
It is often argued that child labour comes at the expense of schooling and so perpetuates poverty for children from poor families. To test this claim we study the effects on children's labour force participation and school enrollments of the pure school-price change induced by a targeted enrollment ...
Roy Brouwer, Sonia Akter, Luke Brander, Enamul Haque
In this article we investigate the complex relationship between environmental risk, poverty, and vulnerability in a case study carried out in one of the poorest and most flood-prone countries in the world, focusing on household and community vulnerability and adaptive coping mechanisms. Based upon t...
Bangladesh. Parisaṃkhyāna Byuro
Dennis Egger, Edward Miguel, Shana S. Warren, Ashish Shenoy et al.
Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official economic statistics in environments with large informal sectors and sub...
Charlotte Benson, Edward Clay
The study consists of a state-of-the art review and three country case studies: on Dominica, a small island economy (Benson and Clay 2001); on disasters and public finances in Bangladesh (Benson and Clay 2002a); and on climatic variability in southern Africa, with a country study of Malawi (Clay and...
John Hoddinott, Yisehac Yohannes, Hoddinott, John, Yohannes, Yisehac
Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an appropriate me...
Ann Varley
The Exceptional and the Everyday - Vulnerability Analysis in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction Vulnerability Analysis and the Explanation of Natural Disasters Peru's 500-Year Earthquake - Vulnerability in Historical Context Prevention and Mitigation of Disasters in Central Amer...
Abdul Wadud, Ben White
This study compares estimates of technical efficiency obtained from the stochastic frontier approach and the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach using farm-level survey data for rice farmers in Bangladesh. Technical inefficiency effects are modelled as a function of farm-specific socioeconomic ...
Mead Cain
From the perspective of parents in many parts of the developing world, high fertility and large numbers of surviving children may be economically rational propositions. An important consideration with respect to the micro implications of high fertility is the economic roles and productive contributi...
Md. Nasif Ahsan, Jeroen Warner
Mead Cain
Relative to other approaches and emphases -- the value of childrens labor for example -- the potential importance of environmentally and socially determined risk as a source of derived demand for children in poor agrarian settings has been largely overlooked. Using frequency of distress sale of land...
Mohammed Nasir Uddin, Wolfgang Bokelmann, Jason Scott Entsminger
Offering a case study of coastal Bangladesh, this study examines the adaptation of agriculturalists to degrading environmental conditions likely to be caused or exacerbated under global climate change. It examines four central components: (1) the rate of self-reported adoption of adaptive mechanisms...
Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow
Md. Monirul Islam, Susannah M. Sallu, Klaus Hubacek, Jouni Paavola
Globally, fisheries support livelihoods of over half a billion people who are exposed to multiple climatic stresses and shocks that affect their capacity to subsist. Yet, only limited research exists on the vulnerability of fishery-based livelihood systems to climate change. We assess the vulnerabil...
Lisa C. Smith, Timothy R. Frankenberger