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Bangladesh: Impacts of the Ukraine and Global Crisis on Food Systems and Poverty by Diao, Xinshen, Dorosh, Paul, Thurlow, James

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Exclusion in community water governance in Bangladesh: An overlooked social issue by Sharma, Indu K., Garrett, James, Joshi, Deepa

“…Bangladesh’s water management shifted toward a decentralized system in the 1990s, with more power to community, including the water management groups (WMGs). …”
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Minding the gender gap in digital innovations in Bangladesh’s agri-economy by Joshi, Deepa, Sarker, Farhana, Andarcia, Mariangel Garcia

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Unhealthy foods in Rajshahi, Bangladesh: Consumption, perceptions, and exposure to advertisements by Samin, Sharraf, Kim, Sunny S., Patwardhan, Sharvari, Scott, Samuel P., Neupane, Sumanta, Chauhan, Alka, Blake, Christine E., Gavaravarapu, SubbaRao M., Pandey, Pooja, Menon, Purnima

“…The Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) district agrifood systems assessment aims to provide a reliable, accessible, and integrated evidence base that links farm production, market access, dietary patterns, climate risk responses, and natural resource management with gender as a cross-cutting issue in rural areas in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. It is designed to be a district-level multiyear assessment. …”
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Unhealthy foods in Rangpur, Bangladesh: Consumption, perceptions, and exposure to advertisements by Samin, Sharraf, Kim, Sunny S., Patwardhan, Sharvari, Scott, Samuel P., Neupane, Sumanta, Chauhan, Alka, Blake, Christine E., Gavaravarapu, SubbaRao M., Pandey, Pooja, Menon, Purnima

“…The Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) district agrifood systems assessment aims to provide a reliable, accessible, and integrated evidence base that links farm production, market access, dietary patterns, climate risk responses, and natural resource management with gender as a cross-cutting issue in rural areas in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. It is designed to be a district-level multiyear assessment. …”
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Who is absent and why? Factors affecting doctor absenteeism in Bangladesh by Islam, Mir Raihanul, Angell, Blake, Naher, Nahitun, Islam, Bushra Zarin, Khan, Mushtaq Husain, McKee, Martin, Hutchinson, Eleanor, Balabanova, Dina, Ahmed, Syed Masud

“…Absenteeism by doctors in public healthcare facilities in rural Bangladesh is a form of chronic rule-breaking and is recognised as a critical problem by the government. …”
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The impact of climate change on children's nutritional status in coastal Bangladesh by Hanifi, S. M. Manzoor Ahmed, Menon, Nidhiya, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

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Household shocks and consumption smoothing: Evidence from Northern Bangladesh by Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab, Rabbani, Atonu

“…Poor households in rural Bangladesh often face concurring idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks, which have adverse impacts on their income and consumption. …”
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Underweight, overweight or obesity, diabetes, and hypertension in Bangladesh, 2004 to 2018 by Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Tauseef, Salauddin, Khuong, Long Quynh, Gupta, Rajat Das, Billah, Sk Masum, Menon, Purnima, Scott, Samuel P.

“…Bangladesh is experiencing a nutrition transition with an increase in the double burden of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). …”
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Mobile phones, income diversification, and poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh by Matsuura-Kannari, Masanori, Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful, Tauseef, Salauddin

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Women's empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh? by Sraboni, Esha, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ahmed, Akhter

“…While Bangladesh has experienced steady advances in food production through the adoption of agricultural technologies, chronic food insecurity remains a challenge. …”
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Food security implications of rice value chain management in Bangladesh by Mujeri, Mustafa K., Ahmed, Nazneen, Hossain, M. I.

“…Since Bangladesh’s independence in 1971, the country’s population has more than doubled to over 160 million in 2016. …”
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Evolution of agricultural mechanization in Bangladesh: The case of tractors for land preparation by Ahmed, Mansur, Takeshima, Hiroyuki

“…In Bangladesh, mechanization—particularly tractor use for land preparation—has grown, despite the country’s having one of the smallest average farm sizes in the region and a historically large rural labor force. …”
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Household shocks and consumption smoothing: Evidence from Northern Bangladesh by Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab, Rabbani, Atonu

“…Poor households in rural Bangladesh often face concurring idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks, which have adverse impacts on their income and consumption. …”
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Virtual migration through online freelancing: Evidence from Bangladesh by Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab, Shonchoy, Abu, Meki, Muhammad, Quinn, Simon

“…In this project, we investigated the feasibility of ‘virtual migration’ by training rural youth in Bangladesh to become online freelancers, enabling them to export their labour services to a global online marketplace. …”
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Does market inclusion empower women? Evidence from Bangladesh by Raghunathan, Kalyani, Ramani, Gayathri V., Rubin, Deborah, Pereira, Audrey, Ahmed, Akhter, Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…We use primary data from rural Bangladesh to investigate the associations between households’ primary economic activity – agricultural wage-earning, production, or entrepreneurship – and absolute and relative levels of men’s and women’s empowerment. …”
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Changes in food insecurity in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 by Ahmed, Akhter, Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hoddinott, John F., Roy, Shalini, Anowar, Md Sadat, Al-Hasan, Md., Ghostlaw, Julie

“…We use pre-pandemic (2018-2019) data from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS), together with three rounds of data collected by telephone in June 2020, January 2021, and September-October 2021, to understand changes in food security over time in a representative sample of rural Bangladeshi households. • With the onset of the pandemic, combined with the lockdown restrictions imposed from March through May 2020, moderate and severe food insecurity tripled to 45 percent. …”
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Comparing Food Versus Cash for Education Program in Bangladesh, 2003 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The Comparing Food versus Cash for Education survey was conducted in Bangladesh in 2003 to compare the effect of using food or cash as a conditional transfer, designed to increase school attendance, to poor households. …”
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Bangladesh Climate Change Adaptation Survey (BCCAS), Round I by International Food Policy Research Institute, Data Analysis and Technical Assistance, University of Bonn

“…The Bangladesh Climate Change Adaptation Survey (BCCAS), Round I contains data on 800 farming households. …”
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Bangladesh, Commercial Vegetable and Polyculture Fish Production 1996-1997 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset provides information on the impact of commercial vegetable and polyculture fish production on income, household resource allocation, and nutrition in Bangladesh. The questionnaire was administered to 5,541 individuals in 955 rural households in 47 villages in four rounds from June, 1996 through September, 1997. …”
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