Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Md. Taher Billal Khalifa, Mirja Mohammad Shahjamal
This article examines the contribution made by the school system in Bangladesh using primary data gained form a small scale of research. Secondary data also supplements. Both formal and informal education gained from society and other sources are considered. Findings show that primary education cont...
David R. Hotchkiss, Deepali Godha, Mai Do
BACKGROUND: One strategic approach available to policy makers to improve the availability of reproductive and child health care supplies and services as well as the sustainability of programs is to expand the role of the private sector in providing these services. However, critics of this approach a...
Shahidur Rahman
Karen Tietjen
Jere R. Behrman, Anil B. Deolalikar, Lee-Ying Soon
"Among developing member countries (DMCs), Indonesia and the Philippines rank fairly high in the distribution of real GDP per capita in PPP dollars while Bangladesh ranks much lower. In terms of aggregate schooling, the Philippines has secondary and tertiary enrollment rates that are substantially h...
Samir Ranjan Nath, Rajiv Chowdhury
Wahiduddin Mahmud, M. Niaz Asadullah, Antonio Savoia
As the gains of Bangladesh from low-cost solutions are reaped, this analysis warns that further progress may increasingly depend on higher public social spending and an improvement in service delivery systems. Further, reductions in child and maternal mortality will require more expensive interventi...
Shakhawat Hossain Sarkar, Shohel Rana, Rudaba Afrin Zitu Rudaba Afrin Zitu
The study addresses the challenges of quality higher education in public universities of Bangladesh considering teaching aids, library facilities, availability of books and journals, research facilities, and laboratory facilities as independent variables and quality of higher education as dependent ...
Mahbuba Nasreen, Sean Tate, Unicef. Regional Office for South Central Asia
Stephen White
Ingrid Palmer
The integration of women in rural development means something more than mere labor involvement, but there has never been a clear definition of what it means. 4 principal concerns of policy-makers are briefly described as they affect women: unemployment and inadequate employment; 2) the satisfaction ...
Md. Asaduzzaman, Russell Kabir, Mirjana Radović-Markovič
This study focused on gender inequality and its impact on socio-economic development of rural households in Bangladesh. To know the main reasons and areas of gender inequality and its impact on household development the study was carried out in five villages of Sadar Upazilla of Mymensingh District....
Dewan Mowdudur Rahman, Navid Bin Sakhawat, Riasad Amin, Faisal Ahmed
Deficiency in energy sector is a major problem, which can hinder the development workflow of any country. Being the eighth most populated country in the world with a total electricity generation of only about 5000 MW and consumption of 146 kWh per capita, Bangladesh is one of the most electricity-de...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Talukder Golam Rabby, Thian Lok Boon, Issa Khan et al.
Student politics is one of the ignored areas in the international scholarly debate. In the late 1960's to early 1970's, some authors made some contributions in the context of South America and Africa. In 1968, Altbach also made very little contribution on the Indian student politics and its impact o...
Talukder Golam Rabby, Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Pradip Kumar Mishra, Kazi Enamul Hoque et al.
Criteria of development approaches and their schemata have evolved out of historical social practices. Interpretation of social events is guided and constrained by the prevailing rationality which itself reflects the dominant constellation of power. With the course of change of time and modernizatio...