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  The quiet revolution in staple food value chains: enter the dragon, the elephant, and the tiger

  Asian Development Bank, 2012

  Is there a difference between the current and the traditional value chains of staples in Asia? This study investigates how domestic staples value chains are structured and performing in three Asian countries (Bangladesh, China and India) in recent years.
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  Peoples’ Participation in the Physical Planning Activities: A Case Study of Khulna Development Authority

  2009

  In contemporary world, community participation is considered as the prerequisite of sustainable urban development. It ranges from just informing people about the plan or development projects by the people. However, public participation in local government’s led programs is still limited in Bangladesh.
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  Money-Income Causality in Bangladesh: An Error Correction Approach

  2011

  The causal relationship between money and income remains a contentious and lively issue in the literature. Even though the literature on this issue is voluminous, however, for Bangladesh it is quite nascent. A few earlier studies suffer from methodological deficiency as they did not take into consider the time series properties of the variables.
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  The Impact of 1998 and 2008 Financial Crises on Profitability of Islamic Banks

  2011

  The paper investigates the profitability of 78 Islamic banks in 25 countries for the period of 1992-2009. The Fixed Effect Model (FEM) used to analyse profitability shows that profit efficiency is positive and statistically significant with operating expenses against asset, equity, high income countries and non-performing loans against total loans.
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  Conversion of Agricultural Land to Non-agricultural Uses in Bangladesh: Extent and Determinants

  2011

  Bangladesh is a land scarce country where per capita cultivated land is only 12.5 decimals.The present study estimates the rate of land conversion and consequent loss of agricultural production of the country besides determining the factors affecting such conversion.
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  Cyclical Behaviour of Macroeconomic Policies and Capital Flows: A Study of Asian Countries

  2011

  This paper examines cyclicality in fiscal and monetary policies including capital flows in 28 Asian countries and explains the cyclicality of fiscal policy by considering the effects of corruption and democracy. The paper analyses the nature of macroeconomic policies adopted by these Asian countries and the underlying factors behind such choices. The analysis brings out four key stylised facts.
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  An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Macroeconomic Variables and Stock Prices in Bangladesh

  2011

  Establishing the relationship between stock prices and macroeconomic variables is very important for formulating current economic stabilisation policies. This paper investigates the causal relationship between four macroeconomic variables and Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) stock prices using cointegration and Granger causality test.
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  Inequality in Rural Bangladesh in the 2000s: Trends and Causes

  2011

  This paper has investigated the patterns of inequality that have emerged in rural Bangladesh in the decade of the 2000s. Two findings stand out clearly– distribution of income has become more unequal over the decade, and, somewhat surprisingly, distribution of consumption has remained more or less unchanged despite widening income inequality.
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  Estimates of Supply Response of Major Crops in Bangladesh

  2011

  The production of crops is an important economic activity for farmers, crop income, nutrition and economic transformation in developing countries.
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  Endogenous Matching and Contractual Choice among Rice Farmers in Bangladesh

  2011

  This paper examines the presence of potential bias arising from multiple sources of endogenous matching among the landlords, tenants and activities while choosing between crop sharing contract and fixed rent contract in the agricultural farming system. The study addresses this endogenous matching problem using data from rice farmers in rural Bangladesh.

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