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

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    2020-03
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    Brac University
    Author
    Tahzeeda, Jasia
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10361/14317
    Abstract
    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.
    Keywords
    Salinity mitigation; Willingness to donate labor; Willingness to donate money; Substitutability; Complementarity
     
    LC Subject Headings
    Soil conservation.
     
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    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).
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    Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Brac University
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