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| Zeller, Manfred; Sharma, Manohar P.; Ahmed, Akhter U.; Rashid, Shahidur. |
| In the last two decades, nongovernmental organizations in Bangladesh have provided millions of poor rural people with savings and credit services at low cost. These services have reduced poverty and may have improved food security and nutrition and achieved positive social change as well. The relative success of these microfinance institutions merits an in-depth examination of their structure, conduct, and performance and the role they play in reducing poverty. This report analyzes the fit between the rural poor and three key NGOs that represent the variety of microfinance institutions in Bangladesh. The report evaluates the effects of microfinance credit programs on household resource allocation, income generation, food and non-food consumption, and the... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Financial Economics. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16522 |
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| Ahmed, Akhter U.; Rashid, Shahidur; Sharma, Manohar P.; Zohir, Sajjad. |
| Donors support a number of targeted food-based programs in Bangladesh that are widely credited with providing poor people access to food and improving their food security. However, inefficiency in the food distribution system may be hindering the realization of the full benefits of these programs. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducted a comprehensive study of the efficiency of food distribution in food aid-supported programs in Bangladesh. The study has three components: (1) food discharge at harbors, (2) the public food distribution system, and (3) food distribution to program beneficiaries. The capacity and efficiency of the food distribution system was assessed from entry ports to targeted beneficiaries. The study identified... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food aid; Food distribution; Leakage; Bangladesh; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60392 |
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| Rashid, Shahidur; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. |
| In 2005, Ethiopia implemented a major new social transfer program, the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) that involves some form of work requirement in exchange for either cash or in‐kind transfers (or a mix of the two), with the composition of the transfers administratively set to be uniform throughout the administrative region (wareda). In this paper, we analyze monthly data on cereal prices over 12 years, comparing price movements for areas included in the PSNP with those outside the program. We find statistically significant convergence of prices between PSNP and non‐PSNP waredas over time, but that this convergence began well before the introduction of the PSNP program. This result suggests that the impact of cash transfers in non‐integrated PSNP... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Policy; Safety Nets; Co-integration; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51764 |
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| Rashid, Shahidur; Sharma, Manohar P.; Zeller, Manfred. |
| It has long been hypothesized that lack of access to credit is the main reason why, despite higher profitability of High Yielding Varieties (HYVs), farmers in developing countries continue to allocate a portion of their land to traditional crop varieties. The empirical testing of this hypothesis has generated a large body of literature with differing conclusions. This paper re-examines the issue in the context of a specially designed group based lending programs for small farmers in Bangladesh, who neither have access to formal sources of credit nor do they qualify to become members of other micro-credit organizations. Two measures of access to credit, credit limit and amount borrowed at a given point in time, are used to analyze the determinants of farm... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Finance; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16230 |
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| Rashid, Shahidur. |
| Like many other Asian countries, the causal relationship between agricultural productivity and the incidence of rural poverty has been a widely debated subject in Bangladesh. A number of studies argued that the real agricultural wage rate was declining during the period when the country had experienced overall agricultural growth. This paper contributes to this debate in two ways: i) it reexamines the methodological aspects of past studies and presents alternative estimates; and ii) analyzes dynamics of agricultural wage and rice price using the most recent data. Multivariate co-integration techniques are used to examine the long and short-run relationships among agricultural wage rate, rice price, urban wage rate, and other prices. The results show that... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16226 |
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| Rashid, Shahidur; Cummings, Ralph, Jr.; Gulati, Ashok. |
| Using case studies from six Asian countries, this paper (a) assesses the relevance of underlying rationales for public intervention in foodgrain markets, (b) documents the existing policies and regulations that support operation of grain parastatals, (c) provides estimates of benefits and costs of parastatals, and (d) compares experiences of countries that liberalized (or reduced intervention) with the ones that continue to have significant presence of parastatals. Our results suggest that conditions in the region have improved significantly over the past thirty years; and none of the four commonly agreed rationales—that is, poorly integrated domestic markets, thin and volatile world market, promoting modern technology and the scarcity of foreign exchange... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food marketing parastatals; Agricultural price policy; Rice and wheat markets; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59830 |
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| Rashid, Shahidur. |
| Using weekly price data for two sub-periods, this paper analyzes how Ugandan maize market performed in the years following agricultural market liberalization in the early 1990’s. For each time period, the extent of integration, causality among spatial locations, and relative importance of spatial locations in price formation are examined. The extent of integration, defined as a set of markets that shares common long-run price information, and the causal relationships among markets have been tested within Johansen’s cointegration framework. The relative importance of each market locations is examined by estimating the common trend coefficients with a dynamic vector moving average model. Results indicate that, while there has been an overall improvement in... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Uganda; Market integration; Causality; Common trend; Multivariate cointegration; Crop Production/Industries; C32; P11; O38. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16135 |
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