Evidence from Ghana & Bangladesh on the impact of rainfall shocks on food security and nutrition.
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magazine
Overcoming Traders' Block
Natural disasters have particularly devastating impacts on economic growth in developing countries because they impede the accumulation of capital.
discussion paper
Natural disasters, self-Insurance, and human capital investment
"This paper uses panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi to examine the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production.
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the 1998 floods, the response of the government, and the coping strategies of households.
The synergy between food assistance and market development contributed to avoiding a food-price crisis.
The synergy between food assistance and market development contributed to avoiding a food-price crisis.
The synergy between food assistance and market development contributed to avoiding a food-price crisis.
journal article
Reducing vulnerability to natural disasters
This report combines a careful analysis of government policy and private foodgrain markets with a detailed survey of 757 households in rural Bangladesh in November and December 1998, about two months after the floodwaters receded.
This report combines a careful analysis of government policy and private foodgrain markets with a detailed survey of 757 households in rural Bangladesh in November and December 1998, about two months after the floodwaters receded.
book chapter
Dynamics and politics of policy change
For drama and intrigue, the story of food policy reform in Bangladesh is difficult to match.
This chapter examines food-aid trends and motivations and their impact in Bangladesh.
book chapter
Legal environment affecting the foodgrain trade
The Government of India issued a wartime Proclamation of Emergency on September 3, 1939, empowering the federal government to enact legislation on any subject it deemed proper—even areas normally within the sole purview of the provincial legislatu
Since the 1940s, the Ministry of Food and its predecessor agencies have been the single largest purchaser, importer, stockholder, and distributor of foodgrains in Bangladesh.
book chapter
Trends in consumption, nutrition, and poverty
Foodgrain consumption dominates household spending in Bangladesh. On average, rice and wheat consumption accounts for 50 percent of total household expenditure, with this share rising to 64 percent for the poorest households (BBS 1995).
book chapter
Evolving rice and wheat markets
Bangladesh's Green Revolution in foodgrain production has triggered a marketing revolution of far greater proportions.
As recommended by the Agricultural Commission of 1960, the East Pakistan Agricultural Development Corporation was established in 1963.