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Community economic development ultimately ensures social development
(BRAC University, 2008)
Community Economic Development (CED), a North American perspective which focuses on creating employment, income maintenance, empowering powerless and poor people, business development, sharing ownership, and government ...
Taking healthcare where the community is: the story of the Shasthya sebikas of BRAC in Bangladesh
(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 ...
Computational fluid dynamics study of flow behaviour in a single spacer filled membrane module
(BRAC University, 2008)
Membrane separation processes have added a new dimension to the traditional processes. The recent novel development in membrane processes have made it possible to use various different purposes at economical rates with ...
Factors determining the presence of glass ceiling and influencing women career advancement in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2008)
The purpose of the study is to examine the existence of glass ceiling in different industries and service sectors in Bangladesh. This study also attempts to identify the contributing factors which create the glass ceiling ...
The stability of a mathematical model in the presence of a preventive vaccine
(BRAC University, 2008)
Various kinds of deterministic models for the spread of infectious disease in populations have been analyzed mathematically and applied to specific diseases. In this paper a deterministic model for the dynamics of an ...
Does inconsistency with 'Fundamental principles of state policy' invalidate a law?
(BRAC University, 2008)
There is a struggle throughout the world on the issue of justiciability of socio-economic rights. It is forcefully argued that socio-economic rights should be given the same status as that of civil political rights. Ensuring ...
Millennium development goal of improving maternal health Bangladesh: a review of concepts
(BRAC University, 2008)
Bangladesh is one of the signatories to the Millennium Declaration 2000, of which, improving maternal health is one of eight goals. Along with the global targets of reducing maternal mortality rate by three quarters between ...
Inadequacies and variations of maternity leave policies throughout the world: special focus on Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2008)
There has been a dramatic increase in the representation of women in the workforce in Bangladesh and throughout the world. However, women face major hurdles in most parts of the world in their advancement in organizations ...
Study of sans distribution function for different particles at different conditions
(BRAC University, 2008)
The size and shape of a particle can be found out by the analysis of form factor distributions in small angle neutron scattering. In the present work, the form factors were calculated theoretically by computer program and ...
Perceptions of mental illness in a Bangladesh village
(BRAC University, 2008)
In this paper, we discuss the perceptions of people from a Bangladeshi village about what they considered to be 'mental illness'. Observations, informal conversations, interviews, focus group discussions, and illness ...