Browsing Department of Economics and Social Sciences (ESS) by Issue Date
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Income and expenditure distribution pattern of sunamgonj haor area: implications for poverty alleviation
(BRAC University, 2004-08)Fishing income (52 per cent) was the main source of income and food expenditure (85 percent) was the main sector of expenditure of the Sunamgonj haor fishermen. Absolute poor was about 48 per cent by Direct Calorie Intake ... -
Analytical foundations of Micro-Meso-Macro linkages in poverty monitoring: a case from Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2004-08)Although there is a significant amount of research going on in the field of poverty monitoring in the entire South Asian region, there is still no uniform mechanism in poverty monitoring system that will track poverty both ... -
The demand-side location determinants for attracting foreign direct investment: theory and empirics
(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 ... -
Economic inequality and paretian welfare enonomics: some insinuating questions
(BRAC University, 2005-08)This paper examines the academic soundness of the Pareto welfare criterion as a normative rule for evaluating alternative economic inequality scenarios and suggests that the criterion has several weaknesses, which wear off ... -
Development regimes in south Asia: History and the governance conundrum
(BRAC University, 2005-08)Until recently, regimes governing development occupied definite territories that delineated their relevant populations and identified authoritative leadership with distinct cultural boundaries. But development regimes today ... -
Hegemony of misrepresentation: American media coverage of islam and islamic revivalism (1980-2001)*
(BRAC University, 2005-08)Using Gramsci's notion of hegemony this paper analyses the nature, functions and wide-ranging implications of the U.S. media's coverage of Islam as represented by U.S. daily newspapers the New York Times and the Washington ... -
Seasonal migration of labor in the autumn lean period: Evidence from Kurigram district, Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2006-08)Seasonal migration of labor in the autumn lean period is an important livelihood strategy for a large number of poor people in Northern Bangladesh. The nature of such migration differs from that of permanent internal ... -
Bangladesh: women and labour activism
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Socio-economic vulnerability and neo-liberalism: lessons from Bangladesh
(© 2009, Sage Publication, UK, 2009-11-01)Based on a case study of an export-oriented Bangladeshi garment company, this article shows how hierarchies of vulnerability have developed in the process of global integration of Bangladesh’s garment industry. Situating ... -
Openness in trade and total factor productivity growth in East Asia
(Brac University, 2010-09-22)This paper attempts to analyze the factors that influence the total factor productivity (TFP) growth rate for six East Asian countries over 1980-2007. Data envelop analysis (DEA) approach is used to estimate the changes ... -
Malnourishment and sex bias in multidimensional child poverty
(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 ... -
Valuation of the benefits of improving drinking water quality for households in Dhaka
(Brac University, 2011-11-15)Consumption of contaminated drinking water brings about economic losses to households in Dhaka. Hence, this study attempts to appraise the social benefits of improving drinking water quality by estimating the monthly WTP ... -
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
(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
(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 ... -
A Theoretical approach to the equity vs. efficiency argument for income taxes
(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 ... -
Starving for Justice: Bangladeshi garment workers in a 'Post-Rana Plaza' world
(© 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 ... -
Impact of climate change: a study of people living at char
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Disenchanted garment workers: social and economic crisis of garment workers
(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 ... -
Sense of community a weapon of survival: an ethnographic study on Korail
(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 ... -
Before rana plaza: towards a history of labour organizing in Bangladesh’s garment industry
(© 2016 Taylor and Francis., 2016-01-01)
