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Role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in Bangladesh

Bidisha, Sayema Haque; Khan, Akib; Imran, Khalid; Khondker, Bazlul Haque; Suhrawardy, Gazi Mohammad (© 2017 Elsevier B.V., 2017-03-01)

This work attempts to disentangle the relationship between credit, food security, and dietary diversity in the context of Bangladesh through descriptive and econometric analyses of the Household Income and Expenditure ...
Assessing the spatial accessibility of microfinance in northern Bangladesh: a GIS analysis

Khan, Akib; Rabbani, Atonu (© 2015 Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2015)

This paper attempts to understand and operationalize the notion of spatial accessibility (SA) in the context of microfinance. Using geographic information system (GIS) data from northern Bangladesh, we have generated a ...
The influence of travel time on emergency obstetric care seeking behavior in the urban poor of Bangladesh: a GIS study

Panciera, Rocco; Khan, Akib; Jafar Raza Rizvi, Syed; Ahmed, Shakil; Ahmed, Tanvir; Islam, Rubana; M. Adams, Alayne (© 2016 BioMed Central Ltd., 2016)

Background: Availability of Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) is crucial to avert maternal death due to life-threatening complications potentially arising during delivery. Research on the determinants of utilization of EmOC ...