Dynamics of rural growth in Bangladesh : sustaining poverty reduction / / Madhur Gautam and Rashid Faruqee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958617403321
• Autore: Gautam Madhur <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2016
• ISBN: 9781464808838; 146480883X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (pages cm.)
• Collana: Directions in development
• Disciplina: 338.1095492
• Soggetti: Rural development - Bangladesh; Agricultural extension work - Bangladesh; Bangladesh Rural condition
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The dynamic rural economy -- Agricultural growth and its drivers -- The evolving structure of agriculture -- Growth of the non-farm sector and its drivers -- Connecting farmers to markets : trading in high-value products -- Prospects for food and nutrition security -- Priority areas for action -- Tables -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: The rural economy in Bangladesh has powerfully advanced economic growth and substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh remain an underexplored, underappreciated, and largely untold story. Dynamics of Rural Growth in Bangladesh: Sustaining Poverty Reduction tells that story and inquires what specific actions Bangladesh might take-given the residual poverty and persistent malnutrition-to accelerate and channel its rural dynamism to sustain the gains in eliminating poverty, achieving shared prosperity, and advancing national aspirations to achieve middle-income status. The central element of this study, undertaken with the Government of Bangladesh Planning Commission to address key questions elicited through extensive consultation, is an empirical analysis that illuminates the underlying dynamics of rural growth, particularly the role of agriculture and its relationship to the nonfarm economy. Using all ; sources of data available for the macro-, meso-, and microhousehold levels, the analysis provides new evidence on changes in the rural economy and the principal drivers of rural incomes. It also examines market performance for high-value agricultural products and agriculture-nutrition linkages, based on new surveys and analysis. The resulting evidence, examined in light of the rich knowledge of rural development in Bangladesh, is used to delineate the implications for policy and the strategic priorities for sustaining future rural development, poverty reduction, food security, and nutrition. The effects of policy reforms, changes in technology, and investments in infrastructure and human capital described here, along with the persistent enterprise of rural Bangladeshi households, offer a compelling case study of how mutually reinforcing actions can trigger the highly-sought-after virtuous cycle of rural development. The findings clearly demonstrate the pro-poor nature of agricultural growth and its catalytic role in stimulating the rural nonfarm economy. They show that households have no linear or predictable pathway out of poverty; instead, they wisely employ a combination of farm and nonfarm income strategies to climb out of, and then stay out of, poverty. The results represent a strong contribution to the global thinking on rural transformation and on how agriculture in particular sustains the economic momentum that fosters poverty reduction and more widespread prosperity.

Computational and Experimental Biomedical Sciences: Methods and Applications : ICCEBS 2013 -- International Conference on Computational and Experimental Biomedical Sciences / / edited by João Manuel R. S. Tavares, R.M. Natal Jorge

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910299682603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-15799-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, , 2212-9413 ; ; 21
• Disciplina: 610.5
• Soggetti: Biomedical engineering; Computer graphics; Medicine - Research; Biology - Research; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering; Computer Graphics; Biomedical Research
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Structural shear stress evaluation of triple periodic minimal surfaces, by H.A. Almeida, P.J. Bártolo -- On the numerical microstructural modeling of vascular tissues, by Estefania Peña -- What exists in the scientific literature about biomechanical models in pelvic floor? – A systematic review, by Renato Andrade, Rui Viana, Sara Viana, Thuane da Roza, Teresa Mascarenhas, Renato Natal Jorge -- The impairment of female pelvic ligaments and its relation to pelvic floor dysfunction: biomechanical analysis, by Sofia Brandão, Marco Parente, Ana Rita Silva, Thuane Da Roza, Teresa Mascarenhas, Isabel Ramos, Renato Natal Jorge -- Pelvic floor muscles behavior in practitioners of high and low impact sports, by Thuane Da Roza, Sofia Brandão, Teresa Mascarenhas, José Alberto Duarte, Renato Natal Jorge -- Effects of a pelvic floor muscle training in nulliparous athletes with urinary ; incontinence: biomechanical models protocol, by M Sousa, R Viana, S Viana, T Da Roza, R Azevedo, M Araújo, C Festas, T Mascarenhas, R Natal Jorge -- Biomechanical study of the cervical spine, by Tatiana Teixeira, Luísa Costa Sousa, Renato Natal Jorge, Marco Parente, João Maia Gonçalves, Rolando Freitas -- Injury simulation of anterior cruciate ligament using isogeometric analysis, by J.P.S. Ferreira, M.P.L. Parente, R.M. Natal Jorge -- Influence of flexing load position on the loading of cruciate ligaments at the knee – A graphics-based analysis, by A. Imran -- Modelling and simulation in orthopedic biomechanics – applications and limitations, by A. Imran -- One-dimensional modelling of the coronary circulation. Application to noninvasive quantification of fractional flow reserve (FFR), by Etienne Boileau, Perumal Nithiarasu -- Prediction of carotid hemodynamic descriptors based on ultrasound data and a neural network model, by Catarina F. Castro, Carlos Conceição António, Luísa Costa Sousa -- Computer image registration techniques applied to nuclear medicine image, by RaquelS. Alves, João Manuel R.S. Tavares -- Segmentation and 3D Reconstruction of Animal Tissues in Histological Images, by Liliana Azevedo, Augusto M. R. Faustino, João Manuel R. S. Tavares -- Ischemic region segmentation in rat heart photos using DRLSE algorithm, by Regina C. Coelho, Salety F. Baracho, Vinícius V. de Melo, Carlos Marcelo G. de Godoy -- Pectoral and breast segmentation technique based on texture information, by Khamsa Djaroudib, Pascal Lorenz, Abdelmalik Taleb Ahmed, Abdelmadjid Zidani -- Statistical and physical micro-feature-based segmentation of cortical bone images using artificial intelligence, by Ilige S. Hage, Ramsey F. Hamade -- Human motion segmentation using active shape models, by Maria João M. Vasconcelos, João Manuel R. S. Tavares -- 3D Vocal tract reconstruction using magnetic resonance imaging data to study fricative consonant production, by Sandra R. Ventura, Diamantino R. Freitas, Isabel M. Ramos, João Manuel R. S. Tavares.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book contains the full papers presented at ICCEBS 2013 – the 1st International Conference on Computational and Experimental Biomedical Sciences, which was organized in Azores, in October 2013. The included papers present and discuss new trends in those fields, using several methods and techniques, including active shape models, constitutive models, isogeometric elements, genetic algorithms, level sets, material models, neural networks, optimization, and the finite element method, in order to address more efficiently different and timely applications involving biofluids, computer simulation, computational biomechanics, image based diagnosis, image processing and analysis, image segmentation, image registration, scaffolds, simulation, and surgical planning. The main audience for this book consists of researchers, Ph.D students, and graduate students with multidisciplinary interests related to the areas of artificial intelligence, bioengineering, biology, biomechanics, computational fluid dynamics, computational mechanics, computational vision, histology, human motion, imagiology, applied mathematics, medical image, medicine, orthopaedics, rehabilitation, speech production, and tissue engineering. .