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Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries: Lessons from Ten Years of LSMS Experience

Angus Deaton
Margaret Grosh

World Bank

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Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries: Lessons from Ten Years of LSMS Experience

Edited by Margaret Grosh and Paul Glewwe
World Bank, 1998

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NGOs and Civil Society in Bangladesh

Atiur Rahman
BIDS

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As the new millenium approaching near the doorstep it is becoming clearer that there has been unprecedented and faster changes during the last few years of the twentieth century. Bangladesh too has been witnessing some of these changes. Like many other developing countries, Bangladesh has also experienced the downfall of military

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Capacity building: shifting the paradigms of practice

Allan Kaplan
Development in Practice, Volume 10, Numbers 3 & 4, August 2000

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Capacity building is now one of the most frequently invoked of current development concepts and yet it continues to defy a shared definition of what it means in practice. Is it possible that capacity building demands such a radically new form of practice, such a radically new form of thinking, that our current approaches are doomed to

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Democracy and Development: A Complex Relationship

Pranab Bardhan
University of California at Berkeley

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Most of us, ardent democrats all, would like to believe that democracy is not merely good in itself, it is also valuable in enhancing the process of development. Of course, if we take a suitably broad concept of development to incorporate general well-being of the population at large, including some basic civil and political freedoms, a

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