Both privatization and foreign direct investment (FDI) have been seen by a section of policy-makers, international agencies and the private sector in India and abroad as key components of India’s reform program. These may not have been as critical to the first round of reforms initiated...

The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993 and has been operating for more than 8 years. This paper evaluates the effect of this program on school participation and duration of schooling using household sample survey data collected in 2000. Various evaluation...