Johanna Mair, Ignasi Martí
Robert J. Johnston, Kevin Boyle, Wiktor Adamowicz, Jeff Bennett et al.
This article proposes contemporary best-practice recommendations for stated preference (SP) studies used to inform decision making, grounded in the accumulate body of peer-reviewed literature. These recommendations consider the use of SP methods to estimate both use and non-use (passive-use) values,...
Syed Hashemi, Sidney Ruth Schuler, Ann P. Riley
Joseph E. Stiglitz
A major problem for institutional lenders is ensuring that borrowers exercise prudence in the use of the funds so that the likelihood of repayments is enhanced. One partial solution is peer monitoring: having neighbors who are in a good position to monitor the borrower be required to pay a penalty i...
Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate
In this paper, we investigate the impact on repayment rates of lending to groups which are made jointly liable for repayment. This type of scheme, especially in the guise of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, has received increasing attention. We set up and analyze the ‘repayment game’ which group lend...
Ashraf Dewan, Yasushi Yamaguchi
Anne Marie Goetz, Rina Sen Gupta
Anne Marie Goetz, Rina Sen Gupta
Abstract Special credit institutions in Bangladesh have dramatically increased the credit available to poor rural women since the mid-1980s. Though this is intended to contribute to women's empowerment, few evaluations of loan use investigate whether women actually control this credit. Most often, w...
Shaikh Shamim Hasan, Lin Zhen, Md. Giashuddin Miah, Tofayel Ahamed et al.
Changes in land use and ecosystem services influence each other and such changes have consequences for human wellbeing. In this paper, we review the research literature on how different types of ecosystem services are affected by LUC, and the consequences for human well-being. We begin with a review...
Eddy van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
Background Conventional estimates of poverty do not take account of out-of-pocket payments to finance health care. We aimed to reassess measures of poverty in 11 low-to-middle income countries in Asia by calculating total household resources both with and without out-of-pocket payments for health ca...
Md Abdullah Omar, Kazuo Inaba
Abstract Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combating poverty and income inequality by opening blocked advancement opportunities for disadvantaged segments of the population. This study intends to investigate the impact of financial inclusion on reducing...
Eddy van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. We estimate the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population. We focus on payments that are catastroph...
M. Mofijur, I.M. Rizwanul Fattah, Md. Asraful Alam, A. B. M. Saiful Islam et al.
COVID-19 has heightened human suffering, undermined the economy, turned the lives of billions of people around the globe upside down, and significantly affected the health, economic, environmental and social domains. This study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 o...
Jason Corburn, David Vlahov, Blessing Mberu, Lee W. Riley et al.
The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and secure and adequate housing are already in short supply or non-existent. Further, space constraints, violence, and overcr...
Hal R. Varian
Abstract. I investigate the multiple agency problem when agents can monitor the per-formance of other agents. A particularly interesting incentive scheme of this sort has been used by the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and I use this example to investigate some general questions involving group incentiv...