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Exploring the household compositions of female sex-workers in brothels: Daulatdia, a case study
(BRAC University, 2004)
The paper looks into the household composition of female sex-workers in Daulatdia Brothel, Bangladesh to understand the concept of ‘power’ within these households. Based on a limited number
semi-structured interviews of ...
Comfort with courtyards in Dhaka apartments
(BRAC University, 2007)
The building activities in the residential arena of Dhaka are primarily involved in mid to high rise apartments of various sizes and styles in almost every available space. The majority of these, mostly six storied, are ...
Trade and poverty allevation: The case of Bangladesh apparel sector
(BRAC University, 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 ...
Exploration activities in Bangladesh Gas
(BRAC University, 2004)
Bangladesh, which constitutes one of the largest deltas of the world, has proved its hydrocarbon potentiality through discovery of 22 gas fields during the course of drilling only 65 wells over a period of last 90 sporadic ...
Local level politics in Bangladesh: Organization and process
(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. ...
Indictment of misogyny on mary wollstonecraft and Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain
(BRAC University, 2004)
Wollstonecraft’s supreme honour of being the mother of western feminism has been questioned by an indictment of misogyny by Susan Gubar; a similar charge of misogyny could potentially be made against the proto-feminist ...
Interventions in water supply for the urban poor sustainability of the NGO-approach
(BRAC University, 2004)
Kofee Annan described the inability of a huge number of urban poor in the third world to access proper water and sewerage facilities, leading to many socio-economic and physical difficulties, as an affront to human dignity. ...
Identity in conflict: image and reality of Bangladeshis in Malaysia
(BRAC University, 2004)
Bangladeshis have often been associated with a nation that suffers from extreme poverty, embroiled in political turmoil, afflicted by floods, cyclones and by tragic accidents; these are the images that the mass media often ...
Rodda construction: a study of earth house at rajendrapur, Gazipur
(BRAC University, 2004)
Mud house is a typical indigenous style and is considered as an affordable means of construction to create shelter for poor. Bangladesh, due to its socio-economic condition, can harness the traditional
and indigenous ...
Use of a nested numerical scheme in a shallow water model for the coast of Bangladesh
(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. ...