Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, Zeller, Manfred, Sharma, Manohar P.
This policy brief summarizes lessons learned from IFPRI's multicountry program on rural finance and household food security with regard to the poors' demand for financial services. The lessons are derived from detailed household surveys conducted in nine countries of Asia and Africa: Bangladesh, Cam...
Manohar Sharma, Manfred Zeller, Sharma, Manohar P., Zeller, Manfred
RESEARCH PROGRAM MISSION The research program titled Rural Fi nancial Policies for Food Security of the Poor seeks to identify policies and institutional arrangements that help the poor integrate themselves into sustainable savings and credit systems in order to increase capacity to invest, bear ris...
Gamini Herath, Kishor Sharma
\n\t\t\t\t\t<b>Contents: </b><br />Child labour and economic development : emerging issues in developing Asia / Gamini Herath and Kishor Sharma<br />Child labour in developing countries : review of theoretical and : empirical issues / Gamini Herath<br />Cumulative cau...
Akhter Ahmed, Shahidur Rashid, Manohar Sharma, Sajjad Zohir
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducted a comprehensive study of the efficiency of food distribution in food aid-supported programs in Bangladesh. The capacity and efficiency of the food distribution system was assessed from entry ports to targeted beneficiaries. The study...
Akhter Ahmed, Shahidur Rashid, Manohar Sharma, Sajjad Zohir
The estimated average leakage in the Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) programme due to short ration and undercoverage is 8 percent of the total wheat allotment. These losses are low by international and Bangladesh standards, and are due, in part, to monitoring and evaluation throughout the system ...
Shahidur Rashid, Manohar Sharma, Manfred Zeller
It has been long hypothesized that lack of access to credit is the main reason why, despite higher profitability of High Yielding Varieties (HYVs), farmers in developing countries continue to allocate a portion of their land to traditional crop varieties. The empirical testing of this hypothesis has...
Shweta Dewangan, Geetha Manoharan, Animesh Kumar Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar et al.
Blockchain technology prevents the corruption of documents. Property rights, land titles, company registrations, and official permits are all secured by blockchain. Increased transparency, reduced fraud, and increased public trust. Blockchain technologies help streamline government operations. Procu...
Arthur G. Rubinoff
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes (t) = tied with school listed above it. Thus, in the US News rankings, Chicago and Iowa are tied with Stony Brook. I am grateful to Dinshaw Mistry and Kailan Rubunoff for their comments on earlier drafts of their paper. 1. Harold R. Isaa...
Nayana P. Nair, Samarasimha Reddy N, Sidhartha Giri, Tintu Varghese et al.
In 2016, India introduced Rotavac (G9P[11]), an indigenous oral rotavirus vaccine administered at 6, 10 and 14 weeks of age through the Universal Immunization Program. Evaluating its effectiveness under routine programmatic conditions is critical, given the variable performance of rotavirus vaccines...
S Parveen, Mohammad Nurul Islam, B Adhikery, Mha Amin et al.
An efficient and reproducible in vitro regeneration protocol for a popular chili variety Bogurar jhal morich was established. For regeneration of shoots two different explants such as cotyledonary leaf and cotyledonary node were employed using various concentrations and combinations of different gro...
Manohar Sharma, Hassan Zaman
The paper assesses the costs and household level benefits of migrating overseas from Bangladesh. The authors survey households who have had overseas migrants to assess their characteristics compared to non-migrants. They also compute various types of migration and remittance related transaction cost...
Gamini Herath
\n\t\t\t\t\tContents:Child labour and economic development : emerging issues in developing Asia / Gamini Herath and Kishor Sharma<br />Child labour in developing countries : review of theoretical and : empirical issues / Gamini Herath<br />Cumulative causation as explanation and policy...
Manohar Sharma, Michael F. Zeller, David Bigman, Hippolyte Fofack
Trimurti D. Nadkarni
Nearing completion of the Master of Surgery course in General Surgery at Topiwala National Medical College, I was looking ahead for surgical superspecialization. Destiny always provides us with answers in an unusual manner. I was in the postmortem room attending the autopsy of a head-injured patient...
Abdul Hannan, Mayra Ihsan, Atiqul Haque, Xiaoxia Du et al.
The accelerated and indiscriminate use of antimicrobial agents in livestock, driven by their short reproduction period and abundant intestinal microbes intensifies the emergence of resistance.Livestock gut serves as a breeding ground for antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, perpetually disseminating th...