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Reprint of: issues with families and children in a disaster context: a qualitative perspective from rural Bangladesh
(© 2015 Elsevier Ltd., 2015)
Natural disasters such as floods and cyclones have repeatedly devastated lives and destroyed the belongings of people. This is especially so for children and their families in Bangladesh. This study analyzed the specific ...
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 ...
Development and validation of a tool to assess appetite of children in low income settings
(Science Direct, 2018-12-21)
Reliable and validated tools for measuring appetite of children in South Asia are not available. This study aimed to develop and validate a tool for assessing appetite level of under-five children. Based on literature ...
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 ...
Credit and land contracting: A test of the theory of sharecropping
(Wiley Online Library, 2019-03-26)
Choice of a share vs. fixed rent land rental contract has figured prominently in the theory of industrial organization. This theory tells us that, while a share contract is inefficient in a first-best world, it may be the ...
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 ...