Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Bangladesh Then -- Bangladesh Now5 -- Fast Forward to 2018 -- Bangladesh Tomorrow -- What Does the Future Hold for Bangladesh? -- Organization of the Book -- Qualifications and Caveats -- References -- Chapter 2: Political Developments and Economic Progress -- Introduction -- Political Development -- Economic Progress -- Growth and Inequality -- Macroeconomic Development -- Structural Change -- A Tale of Two Countries: Bangladesh and Vietnam -- Reform in Vietnam -- The Great Divergence -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Drivers of Development -- Introduction -- Ready-made Garments -- How a New Thriving Industry Was Born -- Impact of the RMG Industry -- Major Issues in the RMG Industry -- International Migration and Remittances -- Labor Migration: When, Where, and Who -- Remittances: Size and Impact -- Migration and Remittances: Major Issues -- Agriculture -- Advances in Food Production -- Factors Behind Success -- Many Shades of Success -- Nongovernmental Organizations -- NGOs and Development -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: Risks and Challenges -- Introduction -- Risks -- Ready-made Garments -- Migration and Remittances -- Agriculture4 -- Nongovernmental Organizations -- Challenges -- Poor Governance -- Infrastructure Bottlenecks -- Non-inclusive Institutions -- Demographic Bane11 -- Dwindling Social Capital -- Leadership Challenge -- References -- Chapter 5: Conclusions -- Pulling the Threads Together -- Moving Forward -- References -- Index.

The paper explores, under a wide variety of circumstances, the welfare impact of emigration. The analytical framework posited is a simple two‐factor, two‐commodity, two‐class general equilibrium model that makes a distinction between traded and non‐traded goods. The principal aim is to collect and synthesize the well‐known results in the literature, derived from diverse analytical frameworks, as well as to establish a number of new ones. It is shown that pure emigration can be beneficial to the non‐emigrants in the source country, irrespective of the welfare criteria adopted, if accompanied by sufficient remittances. The paper also highlights the fact that emigation does not affect all classes in society symmetrically. The division of losers and gainers depends on the volume of remittances, the distribution of factor endowments and the type of emigration.

ABSTRACTIn defining optimum population, economists have used two distinct concepts of the social welfare function: the Millian and the Benthamite. Although analytically the issue of the welfare impact of international migration is closely related to the concept of optimum population, the migration analysis has been based almost exclusively on the Benthamite welfare function. As its point of departure, the present note explores the implications of the alternative Millian welfare function for migration analysis.An interesting aspect of the results derived from the present exercise is that they are in sharp contradiction with the results based on the Benthamite social welfare function. This highlights the sensitivity of the results to the welfare criteria used and the need for greater caution in policy formulation.