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Participation in the workplace: gender perspectives from Bangladesh
(© 2004 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2004)
Studies on participation in organizational decision making in the context of developing countries are limited, especially from a gender perspective. Based on a survey of government and private sector employees in Dhaka, ...
Comparison of temporal disaggregation techniques in the case of export of Bangladesh
(© 2013 International Journal of Applied Research and Studies (IJARS), 2013-11)
Export plays very an import role in the economy of Bangladesh. We have tested four methods of disaggregation of which one is Boot, Feibes and Lisman (BFL) method mathematical based method. Other three are regression based ...
Socio-economic vulnerability and neo-liberalism lessons from Bangladesh
(© 2009 SAGE Publications, 2009-11)
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 ...
What influences adolescent girls' decision-making regarding contraceptive methods use and childbearing? a qualitative exploratory study in Rangpur District, Bangladesh
(© 2016 Public Library of Science, 2016)
Background: Bangladesh has the highest rate of adolescent pregnancy in South Asia. Child marriage is one of the leading causes of pregnancies among adolescent girls. Although the country's contraceptive prevalence rate is ...
Judges as legislators: benevolent exercise of powers by the higher judiciary in Bangladesh with not so benevolent consequences
(© 2016 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, 2016)
Recently in Bangladesh, there is a discernible (albeit rare) trend of the Supreme Court passing directives to the government for making laws for redressing specific wrongs or addressing some issues of public importance. ...
Breast cancer in South Asia: a Bangladeshi perspective
(© 2014 Elsevier Ltd., 2014)
South Asian countries are facing a hidden breast cancer epidemic. A significant proportion of the breast cancer cases occur in premenopausal women. Knowledge of the various aspects of breast cancer in different geographical ...
A Review of groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh: the millennium development goal era and beyond
(© 2016 MDPI AG, 2016)
Arsenic contamination in drinking water has a detrimental impact on human health which profoundly impairs the quality of life. Despite recognition of the adverse health implications of arsenic toxicity, there have been few ...
Combination of community-based vulnerability and adaptation to storm surges in coastal regions of Bangladesh
(© 2014 World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd, 2014)
Bangladesh has been identified as one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change and rising sea-level. This is because it is located at the northern end of the funnel-shaped Bay of Bengal, and as a consequence it ...
Early detection of lung cancer risk using data mining
(© 2013 Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 2013)
Background: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide Therefore, identification of genetic as well as environmental factors is very important in developing novel methods of lung cancer prevention. However, ...
Trends and inequities in use of maternal health care services in Bangladesh, 1991-2011
(© 2015 Public Library of Science, 2015)
Background and Methods Monitoring use-inequity is important to measure progress in efforts to address healthinequities. Using data from six Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys (BDHS), we examine trends, inequities ...