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Women migration in Bangladesh: returnee migrants and re-migration challenges during COVID-19
(Brac University, 2021-12)
In Bangladesh, women mostly migrate as unskilled domestic worker and a small number of semi-skilled and skilled women workers migrate to other work sectors. Unskilled migrant workers face vulnerability during any crisis ...
COVID-19’s Impact on Bangladesh Economy
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2020-11)
This BIGD study examines the impact of COVID-19’s impact on the major economic and financial indicators of the economy of Bangladesh, including production, wages, price levels, advances, bills, investments, remittances and ...
Return and reintegration experience of Bangladeshi domestic migrant workers during Covid-19 pandemic
(Brac University, 2021-12)
Many Bangladeshi female domestic migrant workers working abroad returned home during the COVID-19 pandemic. There were many causes for the return of these migrant domestic women workers. Short-term and long-term challenges ...
Impact of COVID 19 on Bangladesh's environment and climate change trajectory and SDGs goals
(Brac University, 2021-12)
Human activities have long impacted the earth’s environment and climate. Whereas environmental impacts have been a part of policy concern for some decades, climate change (CC) concerns are a more recent phenomenon and have ...
Finding out fast about the impact of COVID-19: The need for policy-relevant methodological innovation
(Elsevier, 2021-04)
In this viewpoint we explore one joint research initiative in Bangladesh to illustrate how methodological innovations using mobile phone technologies and pre-existing survey databases can generate rapid and insightful data ...
The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during COVID-19
(Elsevier, 2021-01)
As the Covid-19 pandemic spread in 2020, the government of Bangladesh ordered a lockdown and promised a program of relief. Citizens complied at first, but soon returned to economic and social life; relief proved slow and ...
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on small and medium enterprises in Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2020-12)
Like other economic players, the novel pandemic severely hit small businesses—the larger source of growth and employment but also the most vulnerable sector—by disrupting national and international business networks, supply ...
Exploring the challenges of the implementation of public health directives that Bangladesh faced during the Covid-19 pandemic
(Brac University, 2021-12)
Before the identification of the first case of COVID-19 in Bangladesh (on March 8th, 2020), the healthcare system of Bangladesh was already struggling with multiple challenges and limitations. Therefore, with a weaker ...
Pandemic, returned female migrants and the question of reintegration: precariousness and possibilities
(Brac University, 2022-01)
COVID-19 has made life even more precarious for Bangladeshi female migrant workers. During the pandemic, they faced unfair treatments, wage theft, and other forms of exploitation in the host countries. A large number of ...
Long-term strategies to control COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries: An options overview of community-based, non-pharmacological interventions
(Springer Link, 2020-08)
In low and middle-income countries (LMICs), strict social distancing measures (e.g., nationwide lockdown) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are unsustainable in the long-term due to knock-on socioeconomic and psychological ...