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The institutional landscape of local
dispute resolution in Bangladesh is rich: it includes the
traditional process of shalish, longstanding and impressive
civil society efforts to improve on shalish, and a somewhat
This paper investigates the impact of
remittances on financial inclusion. This is an important
issue given recent studies showing that financial inclusion
can have significant beneficial effects on households. Using
Infrastructure investments are typically
long-term. As a result, observed benefits to households and
communities may vary considerably over time as short-term
outcomes generate or are subsumed by longer-term impacts.
This paper constructs an integrated
assessment model of tropical cyclones in order to quantify
the impact that climate change may have on tropical cyclone
damages in countries around the world. The paper relies on a
This paper studies a transmission
mechanism through which pro-vulnerable income transfers may
affect individual decision-making of non-beneficiaries in an
extreme poverty context, leading to labor supply contraction
They are being hailed as the new Holy
Grail of economic development. The success of special
economic zones (SEZ) in general and specialized ones in
particular (industrial and technology parks) in countries as
Large-scale disasters regularly affect
societies over the globe, causing large destruction and
damage. After each of these events, media, insurance
companies, and international institu-tions publish numerous
Brazil, China and India have seen
falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying
degrees and for different reasons. History left China with
favorable initial conditions for rapid poverty reduction
The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a
World Bank supported community-driven development program.
Its objective is to improve rural welfare, particularly for
groups that have traditionally been excluded for reasons of
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