Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential health care service. In this study, we consider whether abortion legalization over 1969–1973 improved women's health as measured by maternal mortality. Our event study results indicate that legal abortion substantially lowered...

This article investigates new opportunities that are emerging for Bangladesh with regard to her trade with India. In spite of the growing bilateral trade deficit, value of Bangladesh’s exports to India increased by about three times over the last five years. Examination of the dynamics of...

The on-going negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) in the World Trade Organization (WTO) are expected to lead to substantive reductions in MFN tariff rates on industrial goods in both the developed and developing countries. Although the LDCs are not required to undertake any...