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Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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Salauddin Tauseef is an Associate Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Vientiane, Lao PDR. A development economist, Salauddin works primarily in applied microeconomics, focusing on agriculture, poverty, vulnerability, food security, and women’s empowerment. He has worked on diverse projects including impact evaluations of social protection and nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs. Prior to joining IFPRI, he worked with the World Bank’s Gender and Adolescent: Global Evidence (GAGE) program under the South Asia Gender Innovation Lab. He has also worked at IFPRI-Bangladesh for the Policy Research and Strategy Support Program. Salauddin received his PhD in Economics from the University of Manchester, UK, an MA in Economics from the University of California-Riverside, and a BSc in Economics from the North South University, Bangladesh.

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Dietary quality and nutrition: Past progress, current and future challenges

2024Mahrt, Kristi; Headey, Derek D.; Ecker, Olivier; Comstock, Andrew; Tauseef, Salauddin
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Dietary quality and nutrition: Past progress, current and future challenges

Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the military coup in 2021, Myanmar was experiencing a period of rapid economic growth and transformation in the wake of economic and political liberalization. Between 2005 and 2017, average annual growth in real GDP per capita was 7.8 percent, making Myanmar the fastest growing economy among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. Strong growth was accompanied by a halving of the national poverty rate between 2005 and 2017 from 48.2 to 24.8 percent (CSO, UNDP, and World Bank 2019). COVID19 and the economic and political shocks affecting the country since 2021 have led to an economic contraction: 2021 saw an 18 percent drop in real GDP per capita; in 2022, real GDP per capita was estimated to be 15 percent lower than in 2019 (World Bank 2022). The impacts on poverty were even more dire. A high-frequency panel phone survey of mothers and young children in urban Yangon and the rural Dry Zone revealed incomes collapsing during the COVID-19 lockdowns and further income losses in the wake of the February 2021 military takeover (Headey et al. 2022). Prices rose dramatically, with the consumer price index rising by 20 percent between July 2021 and July 2022 (MOPF 2022), while food prices rose by 34 percent over the same period and by about 50 percent between December 2021 and December 2022. Nationally, a variety of different poverty indicators suggest that between 40 and 50 percent of the population was living in poverty in 2022 —poverty rates similar to those found between 2005 and 2010.

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2024

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Mahrt, Kristi; Headey, Derek D.; Ecker, Olivier; Comstock, Andrew; Tauseef, Salauddin

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Mahrt, Kristi; Headey, Derek; Ecker, Olivier; Comstock, Andrew; and Tauseef, Salauddin. 2024. Dietary quality and nutrition: Past progress, current and future challenges. In Myanmar’s agrifood system: Historical development, recent shocks, future opportunities, Duncan Boughton, Ben Belton, Isabel Lambrecht, and Bart Minten, eds. Chapter 4, Pp. 79-120. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155148

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Myanmar

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Asia; South-eastern Asia; Agrifood Systems; Development; Diet Quality; Economic Shock; Governance; Nutrition

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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The causal effect of early marriage on women’s bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh

2024Tauseef, Salauddin; Sufian, Farha Deba
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The causal effect of early marriage on women’s bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh

Early marriage restrains women’s agency and bargaining strength in postmarital households, impairing their ability to make meaningful contributions to household decision making. This paper employs a comprehensive measure of women’s empowerment in the domestic and productive spheres, and isolates the causal effect of age at marriage, instrumented by age at menarche, on their bargaining strength, using nationally representative data from Bangladesh. Results suggest that delayed marriages result in significantly higher empowerment scores and probability of being empowered for women, because of higher likelihood in achieving adequacy in their autonomy in agricultural production, control over income, ownership of assets and rights in those assets, and ability to speak in public. Favorable impacts of delayed marriage are also found on women’s freedom of mobility, fertility choices, and their ability to decide on household expenses and investments, with the impacts likely coming via improvements in education and labor market outcomes when women married later.

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2024

Authors

Tauseef, Salauddin; Sufian, Farha Deba

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Tauseef, Salauddin; and Sufian, Farha Deba. 2024. The causal effect of early marriage on women’s bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh. World Bank Economic Review 38(3): 598–624. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhad046

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Bangladesh

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Asia; Marriage; Bargaining Power; Women’s Empowerment; Decision Making

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English

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Limited Access

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Mobile phones, income diversification, and poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh

2024Matsuura-Kannari, Masanori; Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful; Tauseef, Salauddin
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Mobile phones, income diversification, and poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh

The widespread adoption of mobile phones (MPs) presents the possibility of creating employment and self‐employment opportunities. Although several studies have documented the impact of MPs on income, the link between MP ownership and poverty reduction channeled by income diversification has not been fully explored. This paper aims to examine this relationship using nationally representative panel data and fixed effect models to account for confounding factors and unobserved heterogeneity. Results indicate that MP ownership is associated with increased income diversification, particularly through on‐farm and off‐farm self‐employment, as well as non‐earned income. This relationship is more pronounced in households with lower levels of education and deprived areas. In addition, owning a MP is also found to decrease poverty via income diversification. Therefore, policies aimed at enhancing access to mobile technologies could create a resilient income portfolio by decreasing transaction costs and improving market efficiency, ultimately mitigating poverty in rural regions.

Year published

2024

Authors

Matsuura-Kannari, Masanori; Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful; Tauseef, Salauddin

Citation

Matsuura-Kannari, Masanori; Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful and Tauseef, Salauddin. 2024. Mobile phones, income diversification, and poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh. Review of Development Economics 28(4): 1475-1493. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13110

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Bangladesh

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Asia; Southern Asia; Employment; Households; Income; Mobile Phones; Poverty Reduction

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English

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Limited Access

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https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13110 Source record

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Journal Article