Caralee McLiesh, Simeon Djankov
Doing Business 2004 is the very first of a series of reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. To document the regulation of business and investigate the effect of regulation on such economic outcomes as productivity, unemployment, growth, pove...
Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is prorich i...
Yuan Lin Zhang
In this paper, a repairable system consisting of one unit and a single repairman is studied. Assume that the system after repair is not as good as new. Under this assumption, a bivariate replacement policy ( T, N ) , where T is the working age and N is the number of failures of the system is studied...
Adrian Leftwich
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Atul Kohli, ‘State, society and development’, in: Ira Katnelson & Helen V. Milner (eds), Political Science: The State of the Discipline (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002), p. 117. 2. Dani Rodrik, ‘Growth strategies’, in: Philippe Aghion & Ste...
James Acheson
The primary objective of this volume is to begin to assess the degree to which the ideas of institutional economics can be applied to societies in the Third World. They discuss a wide variety of institutions from this perspective, including family budgets, revolving credit institutions in Bangladesh...
Anne Matter, Mehedi Ahsan, Michelle Marbach, Christian Zurbrügg
Solid waste mismanagement in Dhaka, Bangladesh, illustrates a well-known market failure which can be summarized as: waste is a resource in the wrong place. Inorganic materials such as plastic or paper can be used to feed the demand for recycled materials in the industrial sector. Organic materials c...
Barbara Herz, Kalanidhi Subbarao, Masooma Habib, Laura Raney
No AccessWorld Bank Discussion Papers12 Aug 2013Letting girls learnPromising approaches in primary and secondary educationAuthors/Editors: Barbara Herz, K. Subbarao, Masooma Habib, Laura RaneyBarbara Herz, K. Subbarao, Masooma Habib, Laura Raneyhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-1937-XSectionsAboutPDF (...
M. G. Quibria, Salim Rashid
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Suborna Barua, Hamid Yahya Hussain, Bosede Ngozi Adeleye
This study explores the interrelationship between CO 2 emissions and economic growth in selected Africa economies from 1990 to 2014 providing evidence from both static and dynamic models. Results show that increases in energy use have a significant and positive effect on economic growth; which goes ...
Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Nausad Ali et al.
BACKGROUND: Diarrheal diseases are a major threat to human health and still represent a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although the burden of the diarrheal diseases is much lower in developed countries, it is a significant public health problem in low and middle-income countries...
Tahmina Tasnim Rodela, Samia Tasnim, Hoimonty Mazumder, Farah Faizah et al.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has critically impacted global health systems and economies, especially in developing countries. Those countries have been struggling to address the preexisting burden of diseases with limited resources, which will become even more challenging during COVID-19. The ...
Md. Abdul Fattah, Syed Riad Morshed, Abdulla ‐ Al Kafy
Traffic congestion is one of the major barriers to the economic development of developing economies, resulting in severe social and economic impacts. The severity of traffic congestion in port and industrial areas is more thought-provoking than destructive barriers. The purpose of this research is t...
Catherine Durnell Cramton
This article compares public and private accounts of the creation of a retail sales business. The two sets of accounts are examined from the perspectives of literature on entrepreneurial activity and literature on family systems theory. The two theoretical perspectives explain the salience of differ...
Richard Rheingans, Matt Kukla, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Dipika Sur et al.
In addition to being a major cause of mortality in South Asia, childhood diarrhea creates economic burden for affected households. We used survey data from sites in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan to estimate the costs borne by households due to childhood diarrhea, including direct medical costs, di...
Richard T. Carson, Phoebe Koundouri, Céline Nauges
A major environmental tragedy of modern times is the widespread arsenic contamination of shallow drinking water wells in rural Bangladesh which went unrecognized for years. Large numbers of people are now starting to show a range of symptoms long associated with chronic arsenic exposure. Rural famil...