December 1999: Yes - and more efficiently by women than by men, according to this analysis of household survey data for Bangladesh. An illiterate adult earns significantly more in the nonfarm economy when living in a household with at least one literate member. According to theory, a member of a...

Der Autor untersucht die Wirksamkeit von Preiserwartungen einiger prominenter Reishändler aus Bangladesch. Die Lagerpraktiken von Händlern hängen mit den voraussichtlichen Gewinnmöglichkeiten des gelagerten Produktes zusammen. Die große Hungersnot 1974 in Bangladesch wird - wie andere...

Probably the most important immediate cause of starvation during the 1974 famine in Bangladesh was a sharp drop in the food purchasing power of agricultural earnings. Past work has attempted to explain this in terms of conditions in food markets. An econometric investigation of wage movements...