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Economic development and female labour participation in SAARC countries: a test of the U-shape hypothesis
(Brac University, 2019-03)
The paper explores whether there exists U shaped hypothesis among the 8 SAARC countries. It first looks at the SAARC nations by implementing the fixed effects model and then analyses the countries individually to see if ...
Globalisation, migration and knowledge generation: a study on higher education institutions in Bangladesh
(© 2018 Springer, Singapore, 2018-10-02)
There has been a marked transformation in the pattern of international migration since the 1980s, a shift of highly skilled migrants from developed to developing countries leading to brain gain from brain drain for the ...
The effects of agent banking on the profitability of commercial banks in Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2019-12)
The thesis examines the effects of agent banking on the profitability of commercial banks in Bangladesh. Around 1.7 billion people in the world do not have access to financial services. In Bangladesh, half of working age ...
Disenchanted garment workers: social and economic crisis of garment workers
(BRAC Univeristy, 2016)
RMG sector has brought a revolutionary change in the life of rural and poor people, previously these people had no ways other than joining into traditional farming occupation or to work as a housemaid in the households of ...
An ethnography on the Maizbhandar: locating within cultural, religious and political dimensions
(BRAC University, 2016-05)
With the rise of modernity and worldwide expansion of secularism as the principle of most of the modern states, many presumed that religion and its corollaries will become irrelevant by the twentieth century. But right at ...
Openness in trade and total factor productivity growth in East Asia
(Brac University, 2010-09-22)
This paper attempts to analyze the factors that influence the total factor productivity (TFP) growth rate for six East Asian countries over 1980-2007. Data envelop analysis (DEA) approach is used to estimate the changes ...
Examining how exchange rate fluctuation effects trade balances: emprirically establishing the correlation between exchange rate and balance of trade, the marshall-lerner condition and J effect
(BRAC University, 2012-03-15)
This paper will examine the effects on an economy’s overall balance of trade due to fluctuations in its exchange rate, followed by how the Marshall-Lerner and J- curve come into effect in influencing a country’s current ...
Sense of community a weapon of survival: an ethnographic study on Korail
(BRAC University, 2016)
Korail, from other side of the lake might seem as an inadequate piece of land which is occupied by ‘illegal settlers’ or from the research of the NGOs, people may assume that Korail is just a plot for manufacturing different ...