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,...
Naila Kabeer
John Hoddinott, Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, Lawrence Haddad et al.
This paper outlines the economic rationale for investments that reduce stunting. We present a framework that illustrates the functional consequences of stunting in the 1000 days after conception throughout the life cycle: from childhood through to old age. We summarize the key empirical literature a...
Siwan Anderson, Mukesh Eswaran
Mariapia Mendola
Mark M. Pitt, Shahidur R. Khandker, Jennifer Cartwright
This article examines the effects of men’s and women’s participation in micro credit programs on various indicators of women’s empowerment using data from a special survey carried out in rural Bangladesh. These credit programs are well suited to studying how gender‐specific resources alter intrahous...
Laura McCann, Bonnie G. Colby, Κ. William Easter, Alexander Kasterine et al.
Jingfeng Yuan, Alex Yajun Zeng, Mirosław J. Skibniewski, Qiming Li
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been applied widely in the global construction market. During the life cycle of PPP projects, their performance could be affected by a number of factors and their interactions, which might cause the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the projects. Previous re...
Lily M. van Eeden, Ann Eklund, Jennifer R. B. Miller, José Vicente López‐Bao et al.
Carnivore predation on livestock often leads people to retaliate. Persecution by humans has contributed strongly to global endangerment of carnivores. Preventing livestock losses would help to achieve three goals common to many human societies: preserve nature, protect animal welfare, and safeguard ...
Anthony Shorrocks
Attempts have recently been made to assign inequality contributions to various components of income. This paper discusses the issues involved in such assignments and highlights the problems that follow from having a number of possible decomposition rules. U. S. data on the distribution of family inc...
Shafiul Azam Ahmed, Mansoor Ali
Mashura Shammi, Md. Bodrud-Doza, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Md. Mostafizur Rahman
Community transmission of COVID-19 is happening in Bangladesh—the country which did not have a noteworthy health policy and legislative structures to combat a pandemic like COVID-19. Early strategic planning and groundwork for evolving and established challenges are crucial to assemble resources and...
Khurshid Alam, Ajay Mahal
Poor health is a source of impoverishment among households in low -and middle- income countries (LMICs) and a subject of voluminous literature in recent years. This paper reviews recent empirical literature on measuring the economic impacts of health shocks on households. Key inclusion criteria were...
Richard Montgomery
This paper utilizes case studies from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to explore a disadvantage of group lending schemes: the unnecessary social costs of repayment pressure. The author argues that extending credit and meeting the needs of the poor need not be incompatible. The poor can be protected from so...
Azizur Rahman Khan, Mahabub Hossain
It was shown in Chapter 2 that compared to the pre-independence period, the average standard of living fell sharply immediately after independence, but subsequently living standards grew significantly faster than in the period prior to independence. The average levels of real income per capita and r...