• Revisiting women empowerment: a retrospect on the other side of readymade garment industry 

  Qadir, Humayra Binte (BRAC Univeristy, 2016-12)

  Empowerment in the garments industry is the pivot of a seesaw, where at one end there are women and then there’s the other end that carries all the obstacles. This study works with women empowerment concentrating on ...
• Before rana plaza: towards a history of labour organizing in Bangladesh’s garment industry 

  Siddiqi, Dina Mahnaz (© 2016 Taylor and Francis., 2016-01-01)
• Bangladesh: Class, precarity and the politics of care 

  Siddiqi, Dina Mahnaz; Ashraf, Hasan M. (© 2017 Taylor and Francis., 2017-01-01)
• Factors influencing women’s decision to choose their career 

  Tofa, Aklima Marjia (BRAC University, 2017)

  Female employment plays an important role in development of any country. Involvement of women in workforce helps socio-economic progress of a country. Participation of women in work force can change the dynamics of entire ...
• Impact of climate change: a study of people living at char 

  Saleh, T.M Abu (BRAC Univeristy, 2016)
• Does globalisation affect informal employment in low and lower middle income countries? 

  Zulfiqar, Samirah Bint (BRAC University, 2017-11-04)

  This thesis examines whether increased globalisation causes rise in informal employment for low and lower middle income countries. Previous studies have suggested that increased globalisation does play a significant role ...
• Experiences of minorities in a secular country like Bangladesh 

  Nicholas, Turzo (BRAC Univeristy, 2017-04-19)
• Being with the ‘Other’: inter-religious marriages in Bangladesh 

  Rahman, Fahmida (BRAC Univeristy, 2016-08)

  Inter-religious marriage is one of the rarest research topics seen in Bangladesh till today. However, „rare research‟ does not mean that such marriages are not taking place. In Bangladesh, inter-religious marriage is ...
• Disenchanted garment workers: social and economic crisis of garment workers 

  Ahmed, Mirza Tausif (BRAC Univeristy, 2016)

  RMG sector has brought a revolutionary change in the life of rural and poor people, previously these people had no ways other than joining into traditional farming occupation or to work as a housemaid in the households of ...
• Ontological formation of the Otaku subculture and subjects in Bangladesh 

  Yameen, Syed Ibtesham (BRAC University, 2016-04)
• The millennium development goals: its impact on the achieving primary education 

  Khan, Rayaan Ullah (BRAC University, 2016-04-16)
• Sense of community a weapon of survival: an ethnographic study on Korail 

  Alam, Aftab (BRAC University, 2016)

  Korail, from other side of the lake might seem as an inadequate piece of land which is occupied by ‘illegal settlers’ or from the research of the NGOs, people may assume that Korail is just a plot for manufacturing different ...
• An ethnography on the Maizbhandar: locating within cultural, religious and political dimensions 

  Awal, Arefin Noman Bin (BRAC University, 2016-05)

  With the rise of modernity and worldwide expansion of secularism as the principle of most of the modern states, many presumed that religion and its corollaries will become irrelevant by the twentieth century. But right at ...
• Construction of the Hijra identity 

  Shawkat, Syeda S. (BRAC University, 2016-12)

  The purpose of this research paper was to be able to discern the various focal points that consist in the building of the hijra identity. The paper required a study of the different spaces in a Hijra's life, such as religion, ...
• Starving for Justice: Bangladeshi garment workers in a 'Post-Rana Plaza' world 

  Siddiqi, Dina Mahnaz (© 2015 International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc., 2015)

  On the afternoon of August 2, 2014, I walked into Hossain Market, one of the many nondescript multistoried buildings lining the commercial thoroughfare in Uttor Badda, Dhaka. I had gone to show solidarity with hunger-striking ...
• A Theoretical approach to the equity vs. efficiency argument for income taxes 

  Al-Majid, Ahmed Waris (BRAC University, 2013-04-25)

  Since the start of the economic crisis, many economists had wondered about the best way to get out of this situation. Seeing the massive movements directed at inequality, this author wondered if inequality was built into ...
• Examining how exchange rate fluctuation effects trade balances: emprirically establishing the correlation between exchange rate and balance of trade, the marshall-lerner condition and J effect 

  Ali, Ratib M; Kamal, Mahsima A (BRAC University, 2012-03-15)

  This paper will examine the effects on an economy’s overall balance of trade due to fluctuations in its exchange rate, followed by how the Marshall-Lerner and J- curve come into effect in influencing a country’s current ...
• An inquiry into the happiness of nations: a macroeconomic analysis 

  Ali, Ratib M (BRAC University, 2012-08-14)

  This paper investigates the concept of national happiness and examines the existing literature on happiness and its causes, before using recently released data from the United Nations to construct a model that explains ...
• Malnourishment and sex bias in multidimensional child poverty 

  Fakir, Adnan M.S. (BRAC University, 2011-08-13)

  Evidence of severe malnourishment and anti-female sex bias has been found in the Korail urban slum settlement of Dhaka. The sex bias is reflected in terms of lower growth dynamics, varying degrees of malnourishment and ...
• The demand-side location determinants for attracting foreign direct investment: theory and empirics 

  Hoque, Anwarul (BRAC University, 2005-08)

  Foreign direct investment (FDI), reckoned as a major source of private capital, has grown phenomenally world wide in the last two decades. Developing countries receive about a third of the global FDI inflows. Although ...

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