Salinity mitigation through voluntary donations in a developing country: the case of Bangladesh

This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Applied Economics, 2020.

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Main Author: Tahzeeda, Jasia
Other Authors: Shahrier, Shibly
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Brac University 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10361/14317
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spelling 10361-143172021-03-07T21:01:14Z Salinity mitigation through voluntary donations in a developing country: the case of Bangladesh Tahzeeda, Jasia Shahrier, Shibly Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Brac University Salinity mitigation Willingness to donate labor Willingness to donate money Substitutability Complementarity Soil conservation. This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Applied Economics, 2020. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-42). This research paper concentrates on the role of voluntary donations in Bangladesh for salinity mitigation. Therefore, questionnaire survey was conducted on 1000 respondents, where their willingness to donate labor and money to collective water and/or land salinity mitigation were elicited. The relationships between the labor and money donations were analyzed in relation to socioeconomic variables such as income, education, family structure, and occupation using bivariate probit and tobit regressions. The analysis finds that income and occupation are the most important determinants to decide between labor and money donations as well as their respective amount for local Bangladeshi people who are impacted by salinity intrusion resulting from cyclone AILA. Education has found to have a negative impact on the labor donation, whereas it was found the fixed occupation has a positive impact on labor donation. Poor and the less educated people with more natural dependence are found to donate more labor. The rich people with less natural dependence are more willing to donate money, whereas the magnitude of donations is quite significant. Labor and money donations demonstrate the relation of substitutability with respect to most socioeconomic variables. The finding of the research exhibits that labor donation is a vital channel to mitigate land and/or water salinity which should be utilized for ensuring sustainable development in developing countries. Jasia Tahzeeda M. in Economics 2021-03-07T05:29:20Z 2021-03-07T05:29:20Z 2020 2020-03 Thesis ID 18275010 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/14317 en Brac University theses are protected by copyright. This may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 42 pages application/pdf Brac University
institution Brac University
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language English
topic Salinity mitigation
Willingness to donate labor
Willingness to donate money
Substitutability
Complementarity
Soil conservation.
spellingShingle Salinity mitigation
Willingness to donate labor
Willingness to donate money
Substitutability
Complementarity
Soil conservation.
Tahzeeda, Jasia
Salinity mitigation through voluntary donations in a developing country: the case of Bangladesh
description This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Applied Economics, 2020.
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title Salinity mitigation through voluntary donations in a developing country: the case of Bangladesh
title_short Salinity mitigation through voluntary donations in a developing country: the case of Bangladesh
title_full Salinity mitigation through voluntary donations in a developing country: the case of Bangladesh
title_fullStr Salinity mitigation through voluntary donations in a developing country: the case of Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Salinity mitigation through voluntary donations in a developing country: the case of Bangladesh
title_sort salinity mitigation through voluntary donations in a developing country: the case of bangladesh
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