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  Living on the boundary: institutional influences on the livelihoods of the extreme poor

  Proshika, 2003

  This study, from Proshika, seeks to understand the livelihood conditions of the many different extremely poor people living in Bangladesh by analyzing their livelihood constraints and opportunities.
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  Vouchers for basic education in developing countries: a principal-agent perspective

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper assesses the impact of education voucher schemes in a number of countries, and uses a principal-agent framework to suggest what might be expected from voucher programs in developing countries, what kinds of voucher programs might be most useful, and what elements of the institutional infrastructure will be important for their implementation.The paper is structured in four sections: f
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  Creating voice and carving space

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2004

  This book is based upon the premise that while politics and power play a central role in decisions governing the lives of many women in developing countries, international development agencies supporting the good governance agenda in the 1990s largely failed to acknowledge this in their approaches.
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  How irrigation can benefit people in South Asia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Irrigated agriculture can make an important contribution to food security, improved nutrition and rural prosperity. For most rural regions of low-income countries, there are no alternatives to agriculture-led growth. Irrigation can be an effective way of promoting growth and reducing poverty. Whilst competition for water is often fierce, agriculture should not be a low priority.
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  Opening minds, opening up opportunities: children’s participation in action for working children

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This report is the outcome of research on participation and working children in Bangladesh, Brazil, Guatemala and Honduras, India and Senegal.Working children’s participation involves a wide range of activities, such as: consultation with working children through participatory research on their working lives and asking them about the types of service interventions they feel they would gain from
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  Understanding the economic and financial impacts of natural disasters

  Climate Change, World Bank, 2004

  This study examines the short and long term economic and financial impacts of natural disasters. It relies in part on in-depth case studies of overall sensitivity to natural hazards in the small island economy of Dominica; public finance consequences of disasters in Bangladesh; and the economic consequences of climatic variability and the use of climatic forecasting in Malawi and southern Africa.
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  Shrimp farming at the cross roads

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The growth of the shrimp industry in many developing countries has generated considerable international debate about the environmental and social costs and benefits of previous practices. Problems have been linked to poor management practices, planning and governance.
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  Rags to riches to rags

  Christian Aid, 2004

  The briefing examines the expected consequences following the end of the Multi Fibre Agreement (MFA) , which came into effect on the 1st of January 2005.
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  Bangladeshi farmers benefit from integrated pest management

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This report details how integrated pest management (IPM) technologies have affected vegetable crop productivity in Bangladesh. The author finds that overall, IPM technology, adopted in January 2001 by a number of Bangladeshi farmers, has proven highly successful.The IPM technology programme was implemented in Bangladesh by IPM CRSP, an international development agency from the United States.
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  Is environmentally-friendly agriculture less profitable for farmers?: evidence on integrated pest management in Bangladesh

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper applies the latest survey data on rice production in Bangladesh to assess the net economic, health and environmental benefits of switching to Integrated Pest Management (IPM).The author assessed the net economic benefits of IPM adoption in three productivity comparisons, using input ratios, standard production functions and stochastically-estimated production frontiers.The author fin

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