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Access barriers to financial inclusion: a study of the Ugandan case
(Brac University, 2021-06)
Financial inclusion is a policy concern around the world. Uganda’s financial sector comprises formal, semi-formal and informal institutions that offer services such as banking services including opening bank accounts, ...
Gender Wage Differentials and Intrinsic Motivations: An Empirical study on Nonprofits
(Brac University, 2022-07)
Conducting a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique and a modified Recentered Influence
Function quantile regression using the Bangladesh Labour Force Survey 2016-17, the paper
estimates the gender wage differential ...
Does the adoption of solid cooking fuel contribute to adverse child health outcomes? A Propensity Score Matched (PSM) analysis from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2011- 2018
(Brac University, 2022-11)
Low birth weight and severe respiratory infections in children are just two of the
acknowledged negative health impacts of household air pollution caused by the use of solid
fuels for cooking, which is still a serious ...
Exploring the relationship between inflation and economic growth: A panel data study on South Asia
(Brac University, 2022-07)
Inflation and economic growth are two very important macroeconomic variables that stir a lot
of interest. This paper explores the relationship between inflation and growth for six countries
in South Asia, namely ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nexus of price and income with money in Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2020)
The key objective of this thesis is to investigate the linkages of money with income and price level using annual time series data for the period of 1978 to 2018 of Bangladesh. The stationarity of the data has been tested ...
Impact of Human Development Indicators on the losses caused by natural disasters in South Asian Countries: A panel data analysis
(Brac University, 2022-06)
A large number of natural disasters hit the South Asian region every year taking away many
lives, damaging million dollars’ worth properties, crop lands, livestock and leaving thousands
of people injured and homeless. ...