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Road safety movement: Young adults and collective engagement in social movement
(Brac University, 2022-10)
Road safety is a concerning issue worldwide. As the proximity of accidents has increased, it has
become a severe concern for the masses. Dhaka witnessed its second most significant
contemporary movement in 2018; The road ...
Valuation of the benefits of improving drinking water quality for households in Dhaka
(Brac University, 2011-11-15)
Consumption of contaminated drinking water brings about economic losses to households in
Dhaka. Hence, this study attempts to appraise the social benefits of improving drinking water
quality by estimating the monthly WTP ...
Is the economy of Bangladesh actually expanding? An analysis using the Hayashi, Kehoe and Prescott approach of Growth Accounting, and other related factors
(Brac University, 2020-06)
This paper is about inconsistencies between two scenarios of Bangladesh. On one hand Bangladesh is
recognized as the top rich growing country, and on the other hand old women cry out of hunger or
attempt suicide for being ...
The millennium development goals: its impact on the achieving primary education
(BRAC University, 2016-04-16)
Quantifying the direct economic damage caused by the impact of climate change in Asia Pacific Region
(Brac University, 2022-01)
Global warming or climate change has amplified the number of natural disasters around the world. Natural disasters include floods, various forms of storms, cyclones, heat waves, drought, wildfires etc. Two important ...
Impact of change in labor composition on the gender wage gap of host countries
(BRAC University, 2018-09)
According to economic theory, gender wage gap is influenced by changing labor composition, whenever the laborers in the labor market are active and employed. The supply of female laborers can impact the gender wage gap in ...
Insight into decision of marriage by late teens and early-twenties women in Dhaka middle class: their agency, respectability and role of external factors
(BRAC University, 2018)
Women in the 21st century have made an insurmountable amount of progress in terms of
education, employment, decision making power and overall autonomy over themselves. In the
context of Bangladesh where this paper is ...
An exploratory analysis of economic growth and governance indicators of Bangladesh, 1996-2018
(Brac University, 2020)
Bangladesh has been experiencing a steady economic growth around seven percent for the
last few years. Although the economy is growing faster but the governance indicators are
showing a different scenario in six dimensions ...
Experiences of minorities in a secular country like Bangladesh
(BRAC Univeristy, 2017-04-19)
An essay on the factors of income
(Brac University, 2022-07)
This paper examines the effect of different factors on the composition of individuals earning
by using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data. This paper also exhibits the
contribution of individual’s non-cognitive ...