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Accounting for Regional Differences in Mother and Child Health : Bangladesh, West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2019

Using recent Demographic Health Survey data for Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and …, the results for Jharkhand state in India and Barisal province in Bangladesh indicate that controlling for those commonly …

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Understanding the Sources of Spatial Disparity and Convergence : Evidence from Bangladesh

Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2017

Bangladesh between 2000 and 2010. It finds a significant decline in spatial disparity in urban areas and the country as a whole …

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The Distributional Impacts of Cigarette Taxation in Bangladesh

Del Carmen Hasbun, Giselle Eugenia - 2018

across consumption deciles. This shows that an increase in the price of cigarettes in Bangladesh has small consumption …

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Assessing Ex Ante the Poverty and Distributional Impact of the Global Crisis in a Developing Country : A Micro-Simulation Approach with Application to Bangladesh

Habib, Bilal - 2017

-crisis household data. The approach is then applied to Bangladesh to assess the potential impact of the slowdown on poverty and income … distribution across different groups and regions. A validation exercise using past data from Bangladesh finds that the model … monitoring tools and policies in Bangladesh, and also illustrate the kind of analysis that is possible in other developing …

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Measuring and Explaining Patterns of Spatial Income Inequality from Outer Space : Evidence from Africa

Mveyange, Anthony - 2018

This paper argues for night--lights data as an alternative data source for measuring spatial inequalities in Africa, where the paucity of subnational income data is persistent. The analysis compares the statistical relationships between income and lights-based measures of spatial income...

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Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth is : Geographic Targeting of World Bank Projects to the Bottom 40 Percent

Öhler, Hannes - 2017

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution...

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Toward a More Business Friendly Tax Regime : Key Challenges in South Asia

Reva, Anna - 2017

added/sales taxes in four South Asian countries -- Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The paper is based largely on …

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …

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The Value of Mortality Risk Reductions in Delhi, India

Bhattacharya, Soma - 2016

The authors interviewed commuters in Delhi, India, asking them to report their willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce their risk of dying in road traffic accidents in each of three scenarios that mirror the circumstances under which the majority of the road fatalities in Delhi occur. The WTP...

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Estimating Poverty Using Cell Phone Data : Evidence from Guatemala

Hernandez, Marco - 2017

The dramatic expansion of mobile phone use in developing countries has given rise to a rich and largely untapped source of information about the characteristics of communities and regions. Call Detail Records (CDRs) obtained from cellular phones provide highly granular real-time data that can be...

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