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Women’s empowerment and aggregate shocks: Evidence from an RCT in Ebola-Hit Sierra Leone
(International Growth Centre, 2017-10)
The condition of women in developing countries is characterized by low economic empowerment and limited agency over their body. This paper evaluates a policy intervention aimed at relaxing these constraints for adolescent ...
Evaluating the e-GP System in Public Works Department (PWD)
(BARC University, 2017-07)
Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) is the application of an efficient high quality management framework to public sector procurement, facilitated through online information and processes. e-GP solutions make purchasing ...
BIGD Quarterly , April–June, 2017
(BRAC University, 2017-06)
Risk assessment at public sector construction projects in Bangladesh: a case study
(Brac University, 2017)
The identification of risk, assessing risk and its proper management is a matter of great concern in risk management of a construction project. Unavailability of risk management or improper management of risk in a project ...
A comparative analysis of centralized versus distributed approaches in electrical power generation: a study on furnace oil based power plants of Bangladesh
(BARC University, 2017-07)
Organizations with centralized power generation have a single facility to generation and
transmission their generated electricity with multiple grid substations in their supply chain. A
single power plant can dramatically ...
Supply chain management portal and its impact on supply chain performance in ministry of health and family welfare: an assessment
(BRAC Univeristy, 2017-04-02)
Use of IT i.e. web based solution in procurement system makes purchasing activities more effective and efficient in terms of both time and cost. Not only that, as the information in the portal from planning to receiving ...
How can It be a problem if you need them both? Women juggling paid and unpaid care work in Tanzania
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09)
The paper summarizes the findings of a mixed-method research that was carried out in Tanzania as part of the "Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work: Successes, Challenges and Lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment ...
Scope and approaches of integrating sustainability issues in public procurement process for sustainable development of Bangladesh
(© 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2017)
Achieving sustainable development is one of the challenges of Bangladesh in its attempt to attain the middle-income country status by 2021. Recognising the strategic importance of public procurement, the study seeks to ...
Need assessment of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2017-08)
There has been a continued influx of the Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN) across the border of Bangladesh and Myanmar since 25 August 2017. As a consequence, the large numbers of people (FDMN) have unexpectedly ...
Sustainability practice in Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), Bangladesh: a case study on Tongibari upazila, Munshiganj
(BRAC University, 2017-09)
Sustainable procurement (SP) is a procurement method that is concerned with the
principles of sustainable development, such as ensuring a healthy society, living within
environmental limits, and promoting good governance ...