Short- and long-term effects of the 1998 Bangladesh flood on rural wages
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accumulation of capital; Climate change; Disasters; economic growth; flood; labor markets; migration costs; Risk management; Soil quality; Wages;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2010-04-17 (Development)
- NEP-ENV-2010-04-17 (Environmental Economics)
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