...Md. Nasir Uddin; Saran Sarntisart Purpose This paper aims to find the effects of mothers’ schooling on child schooling. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses Bangladesh's Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), which is a nationally representative survey. It employs...

... of housework especially for women and investigate the factors influencing the total hours spent on house chores in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach This study adopted a quantitative approach based on survey data obtained from 200 households in the Madaripur and Gopalganj districts of Bangladesh...

...Md. Saiful Islam; Al Jamal Mustafa Shindaini Purpose This study examines the impact of institutional quality (INQ) and human capital creation (HCC) on economic growth (EG) linkage in Bangladesh using an ARDL approach. Design/methodology/approach This study uses time-series annual data over...

... this relationship in south-western Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach Translog production frontier model was used to estimate TE since it fitted the data set better. On the other hand, poverty indices were constructed by using P-α method. Then, multinomial logit models examined the existence...

... to Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional study was conducted in a rural setting of north-eastern Bangladesh, where primary data were collected from 310 households. Exploratory factor analysis was pursued to extract multiple dimensions of social capital. Afterward, multivariate binary...

...Md Aslam Mia Purpose The purpose of this paper is to measure and track the evolution of market concentration and competition in the microfinance industry in Bangladesh by employing both the structural and non-structural measurement techniques. Design/methodology/approach By using a unique...

...Mohammad Mafizur Rahman; Rasheda Khanam; Son Nghiem Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of microcredit on women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh using the latest primary data. Design/methodology/approach Primary data have been collected by a household survey...

... factors exert effects on disparity in FSA between the majority and minority ethnic groups in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach This study used the cross-cultural survey design to analyze the research objective. In doing so, 585 men (Muslim n=150, Hindu n=145, Santal n...

...Mohammad Habibullah Pulok; Moin Uddin Ahmed Purpose Despite remarkable economic growth in the last two decades, corruption is a “way of life” in Bangladesh. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between economic development and corruption in Bangladesh over 1984...

... in Bangladesh during 2007-2011. Design/methodology/approach Data of this study come from two cross-sectional rounds (2007 and 2011) of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. This paper uses ordinary least square models to estimate the correlates of child malnutrition. The study further uses...

...) in Bangladesh”. The survey was administered by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The author controls for the potential endogeneity of child health by an instrumental variables approach. The results indicate that the impact of child health on school achievement will be overestimated...

...Rasheda Khanam; Russell Ross Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the linkages between child work and both school attendance and school attainment of children aged 5‐17 years using data from a survey based in rural Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach This paper first looks at school...

...Ahmed Salman Purpose This paper aims to examine Bangladesh's overall economy with special focus on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) analysis, choosing right foreign direct investment (FDI) strategy, remittance inflow, lessons from South East Asian nations, risk factors...

...Rasheda Khanam Purpose The objective of this paper is to understand better the determinants of child labour and schooling in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses data from a survey based in rural Bangladesh and considers the children aged 5‐17 years living in rural...

...A.K.M. Ahsan Ullah; Jayant K. Routray Purpose This paper seeks to analyse the current poverty situation and poverty alleviation efforts of the NGOs in Bangladesh with emphasis on the impacts of two NGO programmes in two villages of Barisal district. Design/methodology/approach This research...

...Zakir Hossain; Quazi Abdus Samad; Zulficar Ali Purpose The purpose of this paper is to generate three types of forecasts, namely, historical, ex‐post and ex‐ante, using the world famous Box‐Jenkins time series models for motor, mash and mung prices in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach...

...Mohd. Kamruzzaman; Basil Manos; A. Psychoudakis; M. Martika Purpose The purpose of the paper is to estimate wheat productivity in Bangladesh and forecast the future expected population and food requirements in the country by 2010. Design/methodology/approach This paper reaches the objectives...

...Mohammad A. Hossain; Clement A. Tisdell Purpose To provide and assess trends on the status of women in Bangladesh in terms of key macro level indicators namely, women's labour force participation, educational attainments and earnings vis‐à‐vis men. Design/methodology/approach...

...Anis Chowdhury Examines the financial sector reform experience of Bangladesh. Finds that, while there have been some improvements in competition and efficiency, loan defaults still remain a significant problem. Also finds urban bias in loan allocation and shift of resources away from the rural...

...Sayed Hossain; Ming‐Yu Cheng Since independence in 1971, Bangladesh has undergone episodes of change and has recorded considerable economic achievements. In this study, a standard regression model is used to identify factors that significantly contribute to economic growth in Bangladesh...