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Capability Development among the Ultra-poor in Bangladesh: A case study
(BMC, 2009-08)
Microcredit is advocated as a development tool that has the potential to reduce poverty, empower participants, and improve health. Results of several studies have shown that the extreme poor, or the ultra-poor, often are ...
Socio-economic vulnerability and neo-liberalism: lessons from Bangladesh
(© 2009, Sage Publication, UK, 2009-11-01)
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 ...
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, ...
Do side-effects reduce compliance to iron supplementation? a study of daily- and weekly-dose regimens in pregnancy
(Springer, 2002-06)
Side-effects of iron supplementation lead to poor compliance. A weekly-dose schedule of iron supplementation rather than a daily-dose regimen has been suggested to produce fewer side-effects, thereby achieving a higher ...
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 ...
Revitalizing higher education in Bangladesh: insights from alumni and policy prescriptions
(© 2003 Published by Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2003)
Higher education in Bangladesh must become more responsive to the needs of a major constituency: its students. How this might be accomplished is examined in this study using a nine-factor model to explain the satisfaction ...
Enrolment at primary level: gender difference disappears in Bangladesh
(International Journal of Educational Development, 2002-03)
In the recent past, there have been a number of new initiatives to improve the access to primary education in many developing countries. Such initiatives, which came from the public, private and non-governmental (NGO) ...
Doctors' service orientation in public, private, and foreign hospitals
(© 2007 Emerald Group Publishing Limited., 2007)
The purpose of this study is to propose a doctors' service orientation (DSO) scale and uses it to compare the services received in public, private and foreign hospitals in a developing country from the patient's perspective. ...
Beneficial effects of a woman-focused development programme on child survival: evidence from rural Bangladesh
(Social Science and Medicine, 2002-11)
This paper reports results from a prospective study of the impact of a woman-focused development programme on child survival in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh. The programme was targeted to households owning less than ...