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Starving for Justice: Bangladeshi garment workers in a 'Post-Rana Plaza' world
(© 2015 International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc., 2015)
On the afternoon of August 2, 2014, I walked into Hossain Market, one of the many nondescript multistoried buildings lining the commercial thoroughfare in Uttor Badda, Dhaka. I had gone to show solidarity with hunger-striking ...
Socioeconomic inequalities affecting adult obesity in rural Bangladesh: evidence from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey
(Brac University, 2019)
The rising prevalence of obesity represents an important public health issue. The
burden of obesity is increasing in the world as well as in Bangladesh. This research
aims to know whether socioeconomic inequality exists ...
Unemployment with Educational Attainments in Lower Middle Income Countries: 1994-2017
(BRAC University, 2018-09)
This paper empirically investigates how the overall unemployment rate in lower middle income countries is augmented by labor forces with different level of educational attainments by focusing on three distinguished level ...
The impact of private sector investment in rural Bangladesh: a comparative analysis of two sub-districts
(Brac University, 2019-10)
In recent years investment in urban areas have been increasing, but this is not the case for
rural areas. This thesis studies the impact of private investment on rural areas of
Bangladesh. It firstly gives the reader a ...
Forecasting market movement in Dhaka Stock Exchange: LSTM vs. ARIMA
(Brac University, 2019-04)
This paper creates and examines the performance of LSTM models against ARIMA models,
using Dhaka Stock Exchange data from beginning of 2000 to the beginning of 2019. An
algorithm has been designed to simultaneously train ...
Revisiting women empowerment: a retrospect on the other side of readymade garment industry
(BRAC Univeristy, 2016-12)
Empowerment in the garments industry is the pivot of a seesaw, where at one end there are
women and then there’s the other end that carries all the obstacles. This study works with
women empowerment concentrating on ...
Memories of the partition and the formation of identities
(Brac University, 2019-12)
The story of the Partition serves as the origin story of the modern Indian sub continent and continues to be relevant in the context of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Communal differences among the citizens of these three ...
Ontological formation of the Otaku subculture and subjects in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2016-04)
Malnourishment and sex bias in multidimensional child poverty
(BRAC University, 2011-08-13)
Evidence of severe malnourishment and anti-female sex bias has been found in the Korail urban slum settlement of Dhaka. The sex bias is reflected in terms of lower growth dynamics, varying degrees of malnourishment and ...
Travails of an Insider: An Inside View on the Social Place of Mental Wellbeing
(Brac University, 2019)
Psychiatric illnesses are certainly no elusive phenomena, though continuing to be a
seldom conversed taboo. Societal neglect does not make it simple to treat patients and it need
not be mentioned that it is diametrically ...