Background: In many low-income countries, including in Bangladesh, girls tend to marry early and have children very soon after marriage. Although conveying infant and young child nutrition (IYCN) knowledge to adolescent girls in a timely manner is important to ensure the well-being of their...

The thesis looks at the macroeconomic impact of foreign aid. It is specially concerned with aid's impact on the public sector of less developed countries . Since the overwhelming majority of aid is directed to the public sector of LDCs, one can only understand the broader macroeconomic impact of...

This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia, which examine the extent to which households are able through formal and/or informal arrangements to insure their consumption from specific economic shocks and...

This paper examines how differences in the bargaining power of husband and wifeaffect the distribution of consumption expenditures in rural Bangladeshi households. Twoalternative measures of assets are used: current assets and the value of assets brought tomarriage. Results show that both assets...

This paper examines the relationship between community participation and theefficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty. We develop some simple analyticsthat are used to structure a review of the extant literature and motivate the analysis of theimpact of participation on the efficacy...

This paper explores risk sharing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali, as viewed throughthe lens of consumption smoothing. We find that idiosyncratic shocks appear to havelittle impact on consumption, and that households respond to these shocks in a variety ofways. In general, nonpoor households are more...