Rathavuth Hong, James E. Banta, José Betancourt
BACKGROUND: Household food insecurity and under-nutrition remain critically important in developing countries struggling to emerge from the scourge of poverty, where historically, improvements in economic conditions have benefited only certain privileged groups, causing growing inequality in health ...
Andrew Foster
In this paper, it is argued that fluctuations in child growth in rural areas of Bangladesh during and after severe floods in 1988 can provide insight into the structure of credit markets. A model of intertemporal resource allocation is developed and Euler equations relating growth patterns of childr...
Imran Matin, David Hulme
Gazi Salah Uddin, Muhammad Shahbaz, Mohamed El Hédi Arouri, Frédèric Teulon
Martin Ravallion
Welfare distributional effects in a food producing economy of changes in the relative price of food are analyzed, allowing for labor market responses. Conditions for signing the welfare effects are derived for a stylized agricultural household and are tested for Bangladesh. Point estimates suggest t...
Emmanuel Skoufias, Agnes Quisumbing
Reis P., Elisa
The researchers who have written this volume are clear not only that mass poverty is still the leading humanitarian crisis in developing countries, but that, if effective policies are to be put in place, the national elites who control governments and economies need to be convinced of both the reaso...
Jonathan Haughton, Shahidur R. Khandker
The handbook on poverty and inequality provides tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty. It provides background materials for designing poverty reduction strategies. This book is intended for researchers and policy analysts involved in poverty research and policy making. T...
Martin Ravallion, Binayak Sen
Yesmin Akhter, Mohammad Zakaria Mohaimin, Mustafa Murshed, Peter Ezeah et al.
Sajeda Amin
Trends in poverty, working through changing roles of women in income generation, have been advanced as one explanation of changing fertility in Bangladesh. This paper examines women's work patterns in two rural villages in northern Bangladesh and finds little evidence of increasing workforce partici...
Agnes Quisumbing, Bénédicte de la Brière, Quisumbing, Agnes R., De La Briere, Benedicte
This paper examines how differences in the bargaining power of husband and wife affect the distribution of expenditures in rural Bangladeshi households.It contributes to the literature testing various household models by using measures of bargaining power that have been informed by ethnographic evid...
Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak et al.
There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in fundamentals, such as ability, talent, or motivation. The poverty traps view emphasizes differences in opportunities that stem from access to wealth. To test these views, we exploit a large-scale, randomized asset tr...
Shahidur R. Khandker
Ruth Vargas Hill, Neha Kumar, Nicholas Magnan, Simrin Makhija et al.
This study assesses both the demand for and effectiveness of an index insurance product designed to help smallholder farmers in Bangladesh manage crop production risk during the monsoon season. Villages were randomized into either an insurance treatment or a comparison group, and discounts and rebat...