Daily income and food consumption of poor households in northern Bangladesh fall drastically during the autumn lean season of the year. In local terms, this seasonal hardship is known as monga, a near famine situation. Using the propensity score matching technique on cross-sectional data from...

Sir Karl Popper’s (2002) method of historicism has been neglected in the analysis of the radicalisation of Afghanistan’s society in the form of the Taliban. Popper’s historicism is the idea that the past may allow the forecasting of the future by understanding the state of...