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Factors affecting early grade educational attainment: Evidence from South Sudan
(Science Direct, 2019-03)
Decades of conflict have left a majority of the South Sudanese population lacking basic educational skills. Using data from newly enrolled first graders in BRAC Non-Formal Schools, this study explores the current level of ...
English language teaching in Bangladesh today: issues, outcomes and implications
(© 2019 Springer Nature, 2019-06)
Given the significance of English in the global world, English language teaching in Bangladesh has become subject to a supreme concern in maintaining economic growth and developing a skilled workforce. In this article, ...
Evaluation of the teacher education programs in EFL context: a testimony of student teachers’ perspective
(© 2019 International Journal of Instruction, 2019-01)
Pre-service teacher education programs such as, TEFL, TESOL, and ELT are
offered in some universities in Bangladesh. Meeting the criteria and based on their
level, students tend to enroll in BA in TEFL or TESOL and MA ...
A new social sciences network for infectious threats
(The Lancet, 2019-05)
The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to escalate, new outbreaks of Lassa fever, yellow fever, measles, and other infectious diseases erupt around the world, and antimicrobial resistance ...
The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
(PLoS journal, 2019-01-24)
Over half a million children die each year of diarrheal illness, although nearly all deaths could be prevented with Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS). The literature on ORS documents both impressive health benefits and persistent ...
Transitions between informal and formal employment: results from a worker survey in Bangladesh
(© 2019 Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2019-02-13)
We study transitions between different types of formal and informal employment using retrospective job histories from a new survey in Bangladesh. Workers transitioning between jobs are most likely to remain in the same ...
Effectiveness of a community-based water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) intervention in reduction of diarrhoea among under-five children: Evidence from a repeated cross-sectional study (2007–2015) in rural Bangladesh
(Science Direct, 2019-08-20)
Diarrhoea, the most common disease directly related to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), still remains one of the most significant health problems among children under-five worldwide. In this reality, BRAC, the largest ...
Women are more vulnerable to non-communicable diseases in rural and urban Bangladesh (P18-082-19)
(Oxford Academic, 2019-06-13)
Objectives
In Bangladesh, the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD) and their risk factors is increasing. We wanted to assess the vulnerability of women by analyzing the differences in risk factors by gender.
Met ...
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 ...