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Navigating towards a ‘Good future’: Significance of appearance in aspirations of Dhaka urban middle-class girls
(Berghahn Books, 2020)
Against the backdrop of rapid urbanisation, appearance has become the core of Dhaka middle-class girl's understanding of who they are and who they want to be. This chapter investigates significance of appearance among ...
Psycho-social correlates of opioid use disorder among the US adult population: Evidence from the National Survey on drug use and health, 2015-2018
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-07-07)
The United States (US) has experienced an opioid epidemic over the last two decades. Drug overdose deaths increased by 21% from 2015 to 2016, with two-thirds of these deaths attributed to opioid use disorder (OUD). This ...
Association of household wealth and education level with hypertension and diabetes among adults in Bangladesh: A propensity score-based analysis
(Wiley Online Library, 2021-05-15)
Objective: To determine the association of household wealth and education level with hypertension and diabetes in Bangladesh using propensity score (PS) analyses.
Methods: A nationally representative sample of the ...
Community-level environmental characteristics predictive of childhood stunting in Bangladesh - a study based on the repeated cross-sectional surveys
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-06-30)
Coastal morphology makes Bangladesh vulnerable to environmental hazards and climate change. Therefore, environmental characteristics may shape population health, including child health. The prevalence of stunting among ...
Exploring water consumption in Dhaka city using instrumental variables regression approaches
(Springer Link, 2020-09-24)
This paper explores water consumption in Dhaka city for better understanding of its usage, and considers the implications of findings from distributive rationale. Using 459 household survey data collected by BRAC Institute ...
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 ...
Role of regional cooperation and integration in resolving energy insecurity in South Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-04)
This chapter is part of the book titled Energy Insecurity in Asia: Challenges, Solutions, and Renewable Energy, which provides insightful case studies and offers practical policy recommendations for solving energy insecurity ...
The ‘fishnet approach’ to livelihood improvement in depressed basins: Evidence from BRAC’s Integrated Development Programme
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-02-27)
The multidimensional nature of poverty renders comprehensive development efforts encompassing livelihoods, health, and education as well as communal support, essential for achieving equality in growth. Such an integrated ...
Malware Detection Using Neural Network
(Brac University, 2021-01)
One of the great and major issues facing the Internet today is a large amount of data and files that need to be analyzed for possible malicious purposes. Malicious software also referred to as an attacker’s malware is ...
Intersecting barriers to adolescents’ educational access during COVID-19: Exploring the role of gender, disability and poverty
(Elsevier, 2021-09)
This article explores the social determinants of adolescents’ access to education during the COVID-19 pandemic in three diverse urban contexts in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Jordan. It provides novel empirical data from the ...