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  Logistics, trade and production networks: an empirical investigation

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2013

  Logistics services contribute to not only expansion in trade and production networks within or across countries but also help to build countries’ productive capacities.
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  The other Asian enigma: Explaining the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Bangladesh

  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2015

  Bangladesh has managed to sustain a surprisingly rapid reduction in the rate of child undernutrition for at least two decades. The two largest drivers of change that have prompted this unheralded success are large gains in parental education (26%) and rapid asset accumulation (25%).
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  Examining the impact of climate change on migration through the agricultural Channel: evidence from district level panel data from Bangladesh

  South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, 2014

  This paper studies how changes in climatic variables such as temperature and rainfall impact migration through agriculture. The researchers use district level data for 3 inter-census periods to analyse historical migration related outcomes. We find that fluctuations in temperature and rainfall contributed to a decline in agricultural productivity as measured by revenues from agriculture.
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  A legally binding agreement (LBA) - growing need for air pollution reduction and control in South Asia

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2011

  Environmental degradation remains a challenge in most South Asian countries. With increased industrial activity, the exponential growth in number of vehicles and population, the contribution of each country to the south Asia regional air pollution is expected to increase over time.
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  Air pollution reduction and control in South Asia

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012

  With increasing urbanisation and economic growth, air pollution is becoming an urgent concern in South Asian countries Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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  Addressing Malnutrition Multisectorally: What have we learned from recent international experience?

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2013

  This publication is a compilation of three major case studies from Peru, Brazil and Bangladesh, but also a historical review of multisectoral nutrition activities in several other countries around the world.
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  Them belly full (but we hungry): Food rights struggles in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Mozambique

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  This report synthesises the findings from the four country case studies produced for the Food Riots and Food Rights project. It is intended as a summary introduction to the main findings of the research, and a preliminary comparative analysis across the four cases.
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  Fighting corruption in South Asia: building accountability

  Transparency International, 2014

  Hardly a speech is delivered in South Asia without mention of the need to fight corruption in the region. Yet despite the lofty promises, corruption is on the rise. This report shows how a serious lack of political will on the part of governments to make laws work, means that government action to fight corruption is largely ineffective.
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  Voice and accountability in the health sector

  Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013

  This Helpdesk report responds to a query to write a report to identify: 1) useful sources on assessment of voice and accountability (V&A); 2) examples of V&A in the Bangladesh health sector; and 3) different models of V&A. It includes: assessment of voice and accountability in the health sector
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  Nutrition agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation: lessons from the Mainstreaming Nutrition Initiative

  Health Policy and Planning, 2012

  Undernutrition is the single largest contributor to the global burden of disease and can be addressed through a number of highly efficacious interventions. Undernutrition generally has not received commensurate attention in policy agendas at global and national levels, however, and implementing these efficacious interventions at a national scale has proven difficult.

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