Joy E Lawn, Jon E. Rohde, Susan B. Rifkin, Miriam Were et al.
In this paper, we revisit the revolutionary principles-equity, social justice, and health for all; community participation; health promotion; appropriate use of resources; and intersectoral action-raised by the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration, a historic event for health and primary health care. Old healt...
Md. Shahadat Hossain Khan, Mahbub Hasan, Che Kum Clement
Within a very few years, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has turned out to be an effective educational technology which promotes some dramatic changes in teaching and learning processes. Technologies allow students to work more productively than in the past, but the teacher's role in ...
Seong Mi Bae, Md. Abdul Kaium Masud, Jong Dae Kim
There is a dearth of research on corporate governance and total sustainability disclosure (economic, environmental, and social) in developing, particularly South Asian, countries. This is unique cross-country research on South Asian countries’ corporate governance elements and total sustainability d...
Ida E. Berger, Peggy Cunningham, Minette E. Drumwright
This article investigates what it means for corporate social responsibility (CSR) to be mainstreamed in a company. Rather than a single ' best practice/narratives provided by managers revealed that mainstreaming can be understood in terms of three distinct CSR orientations: the business-case model, ...
Fahian Anisul Huq, Ilma Nur Chowdhury, Robert D. Klassen
Abstract For sustainability, research in operations and supply chain management historically emphasized the development of environmental rather than social capabilities. However, factory disasters in Bangladesh, an emerging market and the second largest clothing exporter in the world, revealed enorm...
Mohammed Hossain, M. Masrur Reaz
Abstract This study reports the results of an empirical investigation of the extent of voluntary disclosure by 38 listed banking companies in India. It also reports the results of the association between company specific characteristics and voluntary disclosure of the sample companies. The study rev...
Wendy Graham, Jacqueline Bell, Colin H W Bullough
Summary This paper explores the scientific justification for the key action message “ensure skilled attendance at delivery.” Many governments and other provider agencies in poor countries will need to commit additional health resources in order to respond to this message, and opportunity costs will ...
Shyama Kuruvilla, Flavia Bustreo, Taona Kuo, CK Mishra et al.
Box 1 The Global strategy for women's, children's and adolescents' health (2016-2030) Objectives of the global strategy: * Survive: end preventable mortality; * Thrive: promote health and well-being; and * Transform: expand enabling environments. Five drivers of change to achieve the objectives base...
Ataur Rahman Belal, Stuart Cooper
Jon Wagner
As a framework for stimulating further, empirical investigation, I describe three different forms of direct researcher practitioner cooperation: data-extraction agreements, clinical partnerships, and co-learning agreements. Each form reflects different social arrangements, inquiry and reporting stra...
M. G. Quibria, Shamsun Naher Ahmed, Ted Tschang, Mari-Len Reyes-Macasaquit
Jimmy Donaghey, Juliane Reinecke
Abstract Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Industrial Democracy are two paradigmatic approaches to transnational labour governance. They differ considerably with regard to the role accorded to the representation of labour. CSR tends to view workers as passive recipients of corporate‐led init...
Md Sadek Ferdous, Farida Chowdhury, Madini O. Alassafi
In recent times, with the advent of blockchain technology, there is an optimism surrounding the concept of self-sovereign identity which is regarded to have an influential effect on how we interact with each other over the Internet in future. There are a few works in the literature which examine dif...
Monir Mir, Abu Shiraz Rahaman
Purpose This paper seeks to evaluate the recent decision of the Bangladeshi Government and accounting profession to adopt international accounting standards (IASs). Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a variety of archival data and interviews with key actors, including preparers and users of ...
Jocalyn Clark, Russell Smith
They’re harming researchers in low and middle income countries most, but everyone must fight back