Crises, poverty and gender inequality - current themes and issues, Shelley Feldman from survival strategies to transformation strategies - women's needs and structural adjustment, Diane Elson women and the economic crisis in the Caribbean, Helen I. Safa and Peggy Antrobus the Mexican debit crisis - ...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Irfan Ullah
Highlights • Suicide increment during and afterwards a pandemic is highly common.• This study reports COVID-19 suicide cases in Pakistan for the first time.• Most of the suicides occur due to lockdown-related economic recession.• Fear of infection is the second suicide contributing factor.• Lockdown...
Md. Maruf Hossan Chowdhury, Mohammed Quaddus
Rajdeep Sengupta, Craig P. Aubuchon
The Nobel Prize committee awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.” The microfinance revolution has come a long way since Yunus first provided financing to the poor in Bangladesh.
Aminuzzaman Talukder, Lynnda Kiess, Nasreen Huq, Saskia de Pee et al.
Micronutrient malnutrition affects more than 20 million children and women (at least 50% of this population) in Bangladesh. the diets of more than 85% of women and children in Bangladesh are inadequate in essential micronutrients such as vitamin A, largely because adequate amounts of foods containin...
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...
Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel
In the last several years, a democratic boom has given way to a democratic recession. Between 1985 and 1995, scores of countries made the transition to democracy, bringing widespread euphoria about democracy's future. But more recently, democracy has retreated in Bangladesh, Nigeria, the Philippines...
Md. Nur Alam Siddik
Financial inclusion empowers individuals and families, especially women and the poor, and well-functioning financial systems enrich whole countries. While a plethora of literature exists in connection between the financial inclusion and women empowerment most of those are cross country studies and f...
Md. Mazedul Islam, Adnan Maroof Khan, Monirul Islam
The importance of the textile industry in the economy of Bangladesh is very high. The garments manufacturing sector earned $19 billion in the year to June 2012, one of the impoverished nation's biggest industries. Currently this industry is facing great challenges in its growth rate. The major reaso...
Ignacio Mas, Hannah Siedek
Only about one-quarter of households in developing countries have any form of financial savings with formal banking institutions: 10 percent in Kenya, 20 percent in Macedonia, 25 percent in Mexico, 32 percent in Bangladesh. Yet access to financial services whether in the form of savings, payments, c...
Md. Mokhlesur Rahman, G. G. Md. Nawaz Ali, Xue Jun Li, Jim Samuel et al.
Investigating and classifying sentiments of social media users (e.g., positive, negative) towards an item, situation, and system are very popular among researchers. However, they rarely discuss the underlying socioeconomic factor associations for such sentiments. This study attempts to explore the f...
Santus Kumar Deb, Shohel Md. Nafi
The aim of the study was to examine the consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism. Qualitative analysis was adopted, whereas data were collected from secondary sources like journals, newspapers, statistical data obtained from international tourism organizations, and websites on COVID-19 incide...
Deliana Kostova, Frank J. Chaloupka, Ayda Yürekli, Hana Ross et al.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the characteristics of two primary determinants of cigarette consumption: cigarette affordability and the range of prices paid for cigarettes (and bidis, where applicable) in a set of 15 countries. From this cross-country comparison, identify places where opportunities may exi...
Yaojun Li, Anthony Heath
Purpose This paper seeks to investigate ethnic disadvantages in the UK labour market in the last three decades. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on data from the most authoritative government surveys, the gross and net differences in employment status and class position between minority ethnic ...
Mohammad Nurunnabi, Monirul Alam Hossain, Hossain
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the intellectual capital reporting (ICR) practices of listed non‐financial companies in Bangladesh as an example of a South Asian developing country, and to empirically investigate some company characteristics as determinants of such practices. Design/...