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  • Assesing needs and scopes of upgrading urban squatters in Bangladesh 
    Roy, Gouri S.; Abduallah, A.Q.M (BRAC University, 2005)
    In almost all urban areas of developing countries squatter growth is a common phenomenon, characterized by filthy, dense, unhygienic and poorly-serviced human settlement, which can pose paramount threat to the discipline ...
  • Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC): organizational innovation in population, health and development in Bangladesh in the context of the millennium development goals 
    Haider, Muhiuddin (BRAC University, 2007)
    Bangladesh has marked strides to make in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)for child mortality and maternal health by 2015. Progress and achievements that have been made to date are recognized. However, ...
  • The economic impact of E-commerce 
    Hoq, Ziaul; Kamal, Md. Shawkat; Chowdhury, A H M Ehsanul Huda (BRAC University, 2005)
    E-commerce has a significant impact on business costs and productivity. E-Commerce has a chance to be widely adopted due to its simple applications. Thus it has a large economic impact. It gives the opportunity for “boundary ...
  • The economic impact of e-commerce 
    Hoq, Ziaul; Kamal, Md. Shawkat; Chowdhury, A H M Ehsanul Huda (BRAC Business School, BRAC University, 2005)
    E-commerce has a significant impact on business costs and productivity. E-Commerce has a chance to be widely adopted due to its simple applications. Thus it has a large economic impact. It gives the opportunity for ...
  • Health, Nutrition and human resource development: a crucial link 
    Akhter, Sanzida; Wohab, Md. Abdul (BRAC University, 2006)
    Health and nutrition is one of the important components of human resource development. The relationship between health-nutrition and human resource development is reciprocal and takes a cyclical fashion. The first section ...
  • IT strategies for Business competitiveness in Bangladesh 
    Rahman, Ziaur (BRAC University, 2004)
    In the growth envelope, Information & Communication Technology plays the facilitating role of revitalizing the competitiveness of businesses across any country. This article offers a pedagogical perspective on ICT enabling ...
  • Local level politics in Bangladesh: Organization and process 
    Wohab, Md. Abdul; Akhter, Sanzida (BRAC University, 2004)
    This paper focuses on local level politics and the organization of political parties to examine how the political leaders mobilize their supporters at the local level. The involvement of local people is also analyzed here. ...
  • Management accounting development and practices in Bangladesh 
    Sharkar, Mohammad Zakir Hossain; Sobhan, Md. Abdus; Sultana, Shahida (BRAC University, 2006)
    The more the development of the market economy, the more the significance of management accounting. To keep pace with this increasing market economy, it becomes imperative for the organizations to adopt new management ...
  • Morbidities among older people in Bangladesh: evidence from an ageing survey 
    Kalam, I. M. Shafiqul; Khan, Hafiz T. A. (BRAC University, 2006)
    In recent decades, the population structure in many countries has been reshaping due to combined effect of falling fertility and increased life expectancy. Because of demographic interaction, a trend of increasing proportion ...
  • National discourses on women's empowerment in Bangladesh: continuities and change 
    Hossain, Naomi; Nazneen, Sohela; Sultan, Maheen (BRAC Development Institute (BDI), BRAC University, 2011-07)
    As Bangladesh turns 40, improvements in women’s wellbeing and increased agency are claimed to be some of the most significant gains in the postindependence era. Various economic and social development indicators show that ...
  • Rate of returns to education for secondary school techers in Bangladesh with bootstrap sampling 
    Huq, Molla Md. Rashidul (BRAC University, 2007)
    Rate of returns to education is very important for policy makers and investors. Numerous works have been done regarding this but very few are available in the context of Bangladesh, specially addressing the teachers in ...
  • Same old, same old: from boring to creative presentation 
    Conlan, Chris; Ahmed, Sabreena (BRAC University, 2011)
    This study compares attitudes of tertiary-level students in Australia and Bangladesh towards the use of technology in lectures and seminars. Students were shown audiovisual recordings of two seminars. The content and ...
  • Taking healthcare where the community is: the story of the Shasthya sebikas of BRAC in Bangladesh 
    Ahmed, Syed Masud (BRAC University, 2008)
    To mitigate the income-erosion effect of illness and vulnerability of the poor households, BRAC, an indigenous Bangladeshi NGO, integrates Essential Health Care (EHC) activities with its microcredit-based poverty-alleviation ...
  • Trade and poverty allevation: The case of Bangladesh apparel sector 
    Hoque, Anwarul; Chowdhury, Tanzir A. (BRAC Universtiy, 2004)
    Least developed countries beset with poverty are liberalizing trade policies with growth objectives. Trade contributions to economic growth are established, but impacts of liberalized trade policies on poverty have not ...
  • Use of a nested numerical scheme in a shallow water model for the coast of Bangladesh 
    Roy, G D; Kabir, A B M Humayun (BRAC University, 2004)
    The coast of Bangladesh is very irregular in shape and the off-shore region is full of small and big islands. In this paper a nested finite difference scheme is used to solve the vertically integrated shallow water equations. ...

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