Vietnam has become a global role model for leveraging the opportunities of trade and globalization. Since the Doi Moi reform launched in 1986, Vietnam has been highly successful in building an export-oriented...
Vietnam has become a global role model for leveraging the opportunities of trade and globalization. Since the Doi Moi reform launched in 1986, Vietnam has been highly successful in building an export-oriented...
Vietnam has become a global role model for leveraging the opportunities of trade and globalization. Since the Doi Moi reform launched in 1986, Vietnam has been highly successful in building an export-oriented...
Vietnam has become a global role model for leveraging the opportunities of trade and globalization. Since the Doi Moi reform launched in 1986, Vietnam has been highly successful in building an export-oriented...
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic underscores the importance of digitalization for economic and social resilience. COVID-19 is restricting mobility and economic activity around the world, and the Philippines...
This report provides operational guidance to maximize the impact of investments on nutrition outcomes for women and young children. The recommendations in this document build on evidence to date on issues...
This report provides operational guidance to maximize the impact of investments on nutrition outcomes for women and young children. The recommendations in this document build on evidence to date on issues...
This report provides operational guidance to maximize the impact of investments on nutrition outcomes for women and young children. The recommendations in this document build on evidence to date on issues...
This issue of the World Bank economic review includes the following topics of interest: is there a metropolitan bias? the relationship between poverty and city size in a selection of developing countries;...
This paper uses household survey data collected in September-October 2009 on a nationally representative sample of 2,000 households in Bangladesh to examine the nature of shocks experienced by households...
Global food prices have increased substantially since mid-2010, as have prices in many developing countries. In this study we assess the poverty impact of the price changes between June and December 2010...
The 2008 "food price crisis" and more recent spikes in food prices have led to a greater focus on policies and programs to cushion their impact on poverty and malnutrition. Estimating the income elasticity...
The poor in Bangladesh are more likely to belong to households with a larger number of dependents and lower education among household members, be engaged in daily wage labor, own little land, and be less...
This paper estimates the impact of the 2008 food price spike and the 2009 contraction in global growth on undernourishment rates. The analysis is based on a methodology that uses a calorie-income relationship...
This paper presents new evidence on the capacity of agricultural growth to serve as an effective instrument for poverty reduction. The poverty reduction value of land and labor productivity growth and...
The paper assesses the costs and household level benefits of migrating overseas from Bangladesh. The authors survey households who have had overseas migrants to assess their characteristics compared to...
The increase in food prices represents a major crisis for the world's poor. This paper aims to review the evidence on the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines...
Bangladesh has made good progress in reducing poverty over the past decade despite the series of external shocks which have routinely affected the country. Poverty fell from 49 percent in 2000 to 40 percent...
This report shows that Bangladesh has made striking progress on a range of social indicators over the last 15 years, an achievement widely credited to the country's pluralist service provision regime...
孟加拉的小型融资业目前为大约1300万贫困家庭提供贷款机会。Zaman描述了扩大孟加拉小型贷款的因素,小型贷款的扩大对贫困人口的影响,孟加拉的未来挑战,以及可能为其它国家提供的经验教训。文献一致认为,小型贷款在减轻家庭在某些风险面前的脆弱性方面发挥了重要作用,并为改善社会指标作出了贡献。作者认为,战略捐赠机构为少数管理良好的机构提供的简单的、易复制的金融产品投资,可以为贫困人口带来大量获得贷款的机会。然而,这样做可能会牺牲其它的金融部门发展目标,如产品和机构的多样化,这些目标可以在最初的扩大实现之后再加以推动。政府还可以通过保证宏观经济稳定、采用简单的管理结构和发展可以降低交易成本的通讯网络,在扩大小型融资渠道的过程中发挥关键作用。另外一个经验是,尽管远见卓识的领导能力是绝不可能由赋权产生的,但扩大小型融资的内部体制则是可以在其它环境中复制的。