To investigate this issue, the study draws on Demographic and Health Survey data collected during the 1990s in four countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
"With high population density and limited land availability, Vietnam’s Red River Delta is undergoing a major transformation as its economic base moves away from subsistence farming towards intensive, high-value food production for export and local
This paper explores the diversity of the experience of migrants to rural, peri–urban, and urban areas using a unique longitudinal data set from the Philippines.
"This paper examines how market institutions can affect links between urban and rural areas with specific emphasis on goods market integration in the national context.Traditionally, development researchers and practitioners have focused either on
"Like many developing countries, China and India followed development strategies biased in favor of the urban sector over the last several decades.
This paper empirically identifies social learning and neighborhood effects in schooling investments in a new technology regime.
"While many community-driven development (CDD) initiatives may be successful, their impact is often limited by their small scale.
"While ample evidence documents that urban children generally have better nutritional status than their rural counterparts, recent research suggests that urban malnutrition is on the rise.
"The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducted a comprehensive study of the efficiency of food distribution in food aid-supported programs in Bangladesh.
The concern that learning performance may be adversely affected by increased class size appears to be unfounded. But unchecked, the negative peer effect could hinder student achievement.
"This paper models the assimilation process of migrants and shows evidence of the complementarity between their destination experience and upon-arrival human capital.
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 con
"Flooding is a normal part of the ecology of Bangladesh. The 1998 flood was especially serious because of its depth and duration.
This study examines the poverty reduction implications of the introduction of three different agricultural technologies by government and NGOs in three rural sites across Bangladesh.
This paper examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets.
The Government of Bangladesh launched the innovative Food for Education (FFE) program in 1993. The FFE program provides a free monthly ration of rice or wheat to poor families if their children attend primary school.
Household food security is an important measure of well-being.
The calorie-income demand elasticity is an important parameter in the development literature and in the policy arena.