the relationship between earnings and housework, the “economic exchange” and “gender display” hypotheses. Our …

facilities to transfer money back to their family in Bangladesh. In June 2007, the company went into liquidation owing nearly 2 … million pounds to the public, the majority of whom were from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. …

This thesis gives a voice to the chronically poor people of rural Bangladesh, enabling them to tell their own stories … the market (Chambers 1995; Chakravarti 2006; Duflo 2006). Bangladesh was chosen for this study because it is typical of …

ever poor and the proportion of time spent in poverty are also explored for Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Russia. All the case …This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico … among consumption variability, the level than nonfood consumption, the incidence of poverty, and the probability of being …

in recent decades in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequality on a global scale, which this century … has been an influential actor in the policies to tackle inequality and poverty worldwide. The historical account of the …

in recent decades in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequality on a global scale, which this century … has been an influential actor in the policies to tackle inequality and poverty worldwide. The historical account of the …

poverty than men during transition subjective well-being data suggest that the gender gap in poverty incidence was already a … tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the … assessing gender equality in transition countries 15 years after transition in three areas that are important for women …

After gaining independence from Pakistan in 1971, the Bangladesh state moved from a mainly state-managed sector to a … the mid-1970s to later become the most lucrative export earner for Bangladesh, underlining the fact that it has become an … rural areas of Bangladesh. This is socially significant because, for the first time, it marked the entry of Bangladeshi …