Carlo del Ninno, Paul A. Dorosh, Lisa C. Smith
Carlo del Ninno, Dorosh, Paul A., Smith, Lisa C., Roy, Dilip et al.
In 1998,the flood of the century covered more than two-thirds of Bangladesh, causing crop losses of 2.04 million tons of rice, an amount equal to 10.45 percent of target production in 1998/99. This flood threatened the health and lives of millions through food shortages caused by crop failure, los...
Paul A. Dorosh
Carlo del Ninno, Paul A. Dorosh, Lisa C. Smith, Dilip Kumar Roy
This report combines a careful analysis of government policy and private foodgrain markets with a detailed survey of 757 households in rural Bangladesh in November and December 1998, about two months after the floodwaters receded. The report describes short- and medium-term government policy measure...
Aneire Khan, Wei Xun, Habibul Ahsan, Paolo Vineis
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. IPCC, "IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Asia," in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, UK: ...
Binayak Sen, Paul A. Dorosh, Mansur Ahmed
This paper explores patterns of exit from agriculture in rural Bangladesh by utilizing nationally representative repeat cross-section and pseudo-panel survey data. Our analysis focuses at the rural household level where we focus on three types of households: (a) “pure” agriculture households in whic...
Carlo del Ninno, Paul A. Dorosh
This article examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets. Using propensity score matching techniques, the MPC for wheat is on average 0.33, ranging form essentially zero for Food For Work (a programme with large transfers) to 0.51 for Food For Educa...
Shahidur Rashid, Paul A. Dorosh, Mehrab Malek, Solomon Lemma
Abstract Using case materials from four major cereal growing countries in Asia (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan), the article analyzes key aspects of agricultural input policies in Asia. Results suggest that Asian policies differ from the current wave of African input subsidy programs in ...
Paul A. Dorosh
Abstract The importance of food commodities to consumers and farmers leads most countries to attempt to influence the levels and stability of food prices. The specific policies adopted and the degree of price stabilisation actually achieved vary considerably across countries, however. This paper rev...
Paul A. Dorosh, Carlo del Ninno, Quazi Shahabuddin
James Thurlow, Paul A. Dorosh, Winston Yu
Abstract Climate change assessments often inadequately address uncertainty when estimating damages. Using a dynamic economy‐wide model of Bangladesh, damages from historical climate variability and future anthropogenic climate change are estimated and decomposed. The stochastic simulation approach u...
Paul A. Dorosh, Sohail J. Malik, Marika Krausova
The 2010 floods in Pakistan had a devastating effect on the Pakistani population. This paper summarises recovery experiences from previous natural disasters in South Asia, including the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan and the 1998 flood in Bangladesh, and suggests several lessons relevant for recovery e...
Carlo del Ninno, Paul A. Dorosh
Abstract The 1998 flood in Bangladesh caused a shortfall of 2.2 million tonnes (mill.t) in the rice production and threatened the food security of tens of millions of households. Despite the best efforts of donors and the government, the public distribution of rice and wheat was only 188,000t more t...
Paul A. Dorosh, Shahidur Rashid
Paul A. Dorosh, Kalanidhi Subbarao, Carlo del Ninno
The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the experiences from four major recipients of food aid (India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Zambia) in normal time and after a natural disaster and draw implications for the design of effective food aid and food security policies in Africa. The study ...