John-Harmen Valk, Ahmed Tareq Rashid, Laurent Elder
Despite improvements in educational indicators, such as enrolment, significant challenges remain with regard to the delivery of quality education in developing countries, particularly in rural and remote regions. In the attempt to find viable solutions to these challenges, much hope has been placed ...
Ahmed Tareq Rashid
The diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) like computers and Internet provides great opportunities for the well-being of people in developing countries. Does this promise hold true for marginalized socioeconomic groups such as women? This article explores gender differen...
Ahmed Tareq Rashid, Mizan Rahman
Multi-national corporations (MNCs) and large domestic companies have traditionally ignored a large part of the world's population with lower income levels, also known as the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). New empirical measures of the behaviour of those at the BOP and their aggregate purchasing power,...
Abdur Rauf, Tareq Abu‐Izneid, Umer Rashid, Fahad A. Alhumaydhi et al.
Diospyros lotus , also known as date‐plum, belongs to the Ebenaceae family and is mostly recognized as a rootstock for D . kaki . Similar classes of naphthoquinones in D . lotus are investigated against cancer and inflammation and have antimicrobial, sedative, and analgesic properties. Six chemical ...
Farhan Fuad Abir, Khalid Alyafei, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Amith Khandakar et al.
While the advanced diagnostic tools and healthcare management protocols have been struggling to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the spread of the contagious viral pathogen before the symptom onset acted as the Achilles’ heel. Although reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been ...
Yousef Ahmed Alkhamis, Airin Sultana, Shaikh Tareq Arafat, Muhammad Abdur Rouf et al.
A technique called biofloc technology (BFT) is an environmentally friendly method for aquaculture in which a successful growing cycle depends on the maintenance and monitoring of water quality parameters. Studies have revealed that improving water quality in BFT and maintaining the safety range of t...
Ahmed Tareq Rashid
Abstract Social entrepreneurship has recently emerged as a vital concept for assessing how business ventures are integrated with the social objective of development organizations. Despite its increasing salience, social entrepreneurship has remained largely under-investigated in the context of the d...
Ahmed Tareq Rashid
Lack of sustainable approaches for public access venues like telecentres have led to the emergence of several entrepreneurial and market-driven models of telecentres in developing countries that are driven by multinational corporations, governments and social enterprises. This phenomenon falls under...
Ahmed Tareq Rashid
Abstract Despite a manifold increase in mobile penetration in Bangladesh, a significant number of people still do not own a mobile phone. However, the communication needs of non-owning users (NOUs) are being met by a large number of public mobile telephone kiosks and informal sharing amongst people....
WATINI REZA, Md. Tarequl Islam, Md. Helal Uddin, Kizar Ahmed Sumon et al.
The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of climate induced salinity on histoarchitecture of liver, kidney and ovary tissue of female striped gourami (Trichogaster fasciata) exposed tothree sub-lethal concentrations (3, 6 and 9 ppt) of crude salt along with a control group (0 ppt) for...
Ahmed Tareq Rashid, A. K. M. Mamunur Rashid, Ahmed Khaled Rashid
Greater engagement of businesses in development in South Asia reflects a partial withdrawal of the state from providing all kinds of services. Advocates of ‘bottom of the pyramid’ approaches have argued that corporations can step in by simultaneously making profit and contributing to development goa...
Ahmed Tareq Rashid
With the increasingly salient role of business in development, the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) approach is sparking great interest in multinational corporations, donor agencies, and academic circles. The BOP proposition holds that profit-generating enterprise-based ventures – typically led by multin...
Mohammed Salahuddin Ahmed, Mohammed Mamun-ur-Rashid, Mohammed Tareq Mahmood
The cell phone can provide numerous benefits to sea fishers who risk their lives and resources for making livelihoods. This article is based on the firm assumption that the use of the cell phone during marine fishing can contribute to income, security and risk reduction. This study adds to the empir...
Ahmed Tareq Rashid
Bangladesh has been touted as a successful model for integrating non-state actors in the development efforts. Many have argued that civil society organisations like developmental NGOs have been particularly important in advancing local development and women’s empowerment. In this chapter, I analyse ...
Abdullah Al Shafi Majumder, Mohammad Ullah, Md Toufiqur Rahman, AKM Monowarul Islam et al.
<em><strong>Background: </strong></em><em>Uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) is a major healthcare issue and responsible for high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and morbidity. P</em><em>hysicians of Bangladesh had been using <em>amlodipine and Olmesartan combination for a long period o...