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Workshop on Strengthening Disability Measurement across South Asian Countries
World Bank - 2012
This report comprises of eleven sessions: introduction; definition of disability - questions for discussion; new thinking on disability measurement; from census to surveys; policy dimensions of disability measurement - Brazil; good questions and bad questions; developing a matrix of functioning;...
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Groundwater irrigation and the rural poor : options for development in the Gangetic Basin
Kahnert, Friedrich (contributor);  … - 1993
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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Investments in the Electric Power Sector : The Experience of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh - Final Report
World Bank - 2012
The three large South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), which are the focus of this report, have drawn …
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Investment climate and international integration
Taye Mengistae - 2004
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Nepal and Bangladesh - Transport and HIV Portfolio Review and Situation Analysis
World Bank - 2012
This review report focuses on the HIV component of the World Bank Bangladesh and Nepal transport infrastructure … learned from HIV and AIDS activities developed within the road projects financed by the World Bank in Bangladesh and Nepal as … strategies being formulated for Bangladesh in 2010 and Nepal in 2011. The Bank may consider making the model HIV clause in the …
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Migration, school attainment, and child labor : evidence from rural Pakistan
Mansuri, Ghazala - 2006
"Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects, in part, borrowing constraints that inhibit private investment in human capital by the poor. One promise of the recent proposals to open international labor markets to allow for...
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The Ship Breaking and Recycling Industry in Bangladesh and Pakistan
World Bank - 2012
, specifically Bangladesh and Pakistan, achieving compliance with the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) without jeopardizing the future of … breaking including the government of Pakistan and the government of Bangladesh about the current problems encountered in the … and growth potential of the industry in Bangladesh and Pakistan (chapter two); ii) it undertook environmental audits of …
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Food policy analysis
Timmer, C. Peter - 1983
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Flood Risk Assessment for the Ganges Basin in South Asia
World Bank - 2016
The chapter wise synopsis of the report is as follows: chapter one: (present chapter) provides the reader with an overview of the project, its scope, and its objectives. It also provides the reader with an understanding of key concepts related to the project. Chapter two: describes exposure data...
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Microfinance in South Asia : Toward Financial Inclusion for the Poor
World Bank - 2006
In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing … poverty conditions among its vast rural population. Astonishing growth rates in Bangladesh, particularly during 1990s, created … of the twenty-first century reinforced this trend as the Bangladesh numbers continued to grow impressively; in India, a …
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