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Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to the impact of climate change because it is a low-lying, flat country subject to … its livelihood. The goal of this research was to examine the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh … four general circulation models (GCMs) to evaluate the impact of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh by 2050. We …
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Using data from multiple sources, we show that in Bangladesh, the increase in real wages, particularly female wages … to shift in favor of workers) has arrived in Bangladesh. Rising wages are likely a result of a combination of more ample …
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Bangladesh, estimates suggest that the country’s potential rice-fish production system encompasses between two and three million … improvement. This paper provides a characterization of the diverse and changing nature of rice-fish systems in Bangladesh by … incomes in Bangladesh. Findings also suggest that although the emergent innovation system around these rice-fish systems is …
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The national food system of Bangladesh has made substantial progress since experiencing famine in 1974, soon after …
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randomized control trials in rural Bangladesh, with treatment arms including cash transfers, a food ration, or a mixed food and …
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market and may receive fewer benefits. Despite the prevailing perception in rural Bangladesh that women do not participate in … services in Bangladesh. We find that women benefit from managing and sometimes owning machinery services, as well as from the …
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This paper analyzes poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh using a nationally representative panel dataset of 5,260 rural … and transient poverty identified in this study hold promise for sustained poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh …
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The paper argues that much of the farm-nonfarm labor mobility in rural Bangladesh is in nature an intergenerational … occupational choice-induced change rather than a sectoral shift within the current generation. Bangladesh has a large share of …
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-called Asian enigma. Yet contrary to this stereotype, Bangladesh has managed to sustain a rapid reduction in the rate of child … aspiration of deriving policy-relevant lessons from Bangladesh’s experience. To do so we employ a regression analysis of five …
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-making power within households. We utilize data from women and men in Bangladesh and Ghana to investigate whether respondents who …
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