Zeeshan Khan, Muntasir Murshed, Kangyin Dong, Yang Siqun
The ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement has laid the platform for the signatory nations to boost their respective economic growth rates, and also raised environmental concerns. So far, little is known regarding the roles of export diversification and the ...
Pravakar Sahoo
All five South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal) have been following consistent economic reform policy measures emphasizing the market economy and aimed at integrating their economies with the rest of the world. Consequently, all except Pakistan have experienced high...
Md Saidul Islam
A.K. Shamsuddoha, M. Yunus Ali, Nelson Oly Ndubisi
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of government assistance programmes on internationalization of SMEs from an Asian developing nation. Design/methodology/approach Primary data from a sample of 203 SMEs in three export-oriented industries in Bangladesh were analyzed using st...
Lars Repp, Marko P. Hekkert, Julian Kirchherr
There is no evidence-based discussion on the intended and unintended global social impacts, such as changes in employment, of the European Union's (EU) transition towards the Circular Economy (CE). Consequently, its ethical implications are nebulous. Therefore, this paper assesses CE-induced global ...
Md. Shahinur Islam, Ruma Akhter, Mohammad Ashifur Rahman
Paul A. Dorosh
Adil Najam, Saleemul Huq, Youba Sokona
Abstract Five years down the road from Kyoto, the Protocol that bears that city's name still awaits enough qualifying ratifications to come into force. While attention has been understandably focussed on the ratification process, it is time to begin thinking about the next steps for the global clima...
Syeda Naushin Parnini
The Muslim Rohingya crisis has been disrupting the bilateral relations between Myanmar and Bangladesh since the late 1970s. This paper explores the crisis of Rohingya as a Muslim minority in Myanmar and their forced migration to Bangladesh where they took refuge causing disputes between Bangladesh a...
Gary Gereffi, Stacey Frederick
This paper examines the impact of two \n crises on the global apparel value chain: the World Trade \n Organization phase-out of the quota system for textiles and \n apparel in 2005, which provided access for many poor and \n small export-oriented economies to the markets of \n in...
Jim Love, Ramesh Chandra
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the export‐led growth hypothesis for South Asia, a diverse region consisting of one large country, India, surrounded by a number of medium and small countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. Design/methodology/approach...
Peter Serina, Ian Riley, Andrea Stewart, Spencer L James et al.
BACKGROUND: Reliable data on the distribution of causes of death (COD) in a population are fundamental to good public health practice. In the absence of comprehensive medical certification of deaths, the only feasible way to collect essential mortality data is verbal autopsy (VA). The Tariff Method ...
Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, L.O. Fresco, Mohamed Hassan
Kelvin Balcombe, Iain Fraser, Laure Latruffe, Mizanur Rahman et al.
In this article we examine sources of technical efficiency for rice farming in Bangladesh. The motivation for the analysis is the need to close the rice yield gap to enable food security. We employ the DEA double bootstrap of Simar and Wilson (2007) to estimate and explain technical efficiency. This...
Ishtehar Sharif Swazan, Debanjan Das
Bangladesh is the second-largest ready-made garment (RMG) manufacturer and exporter in the world. The RMG industry of Bangladesh has become one of the fastest-growing industries globally since the 1990s and is the main source of its foreign earnings for the last three decades. To gain an in-depth un...