S. M. Mostafa Kamal, Che Hashim Hassan, Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Ying Yang
This study examines the trends and determinants of child marriage among women aged 20-49 in Bangladesh. Data were extracted from the last six nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys conducted during 1993-2011. Simple cross-tabulation and multivariate binary logistic regression analy...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
This article examines and discusses the existing role, status and quality of Higher Education (HE) imparted in the Private Universities in Bangladesh. The major findings assert that private HE sector considers education as business goods rather public goods. Knowledge is a public property. But, entr...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
Education is supposed to play a vital role for the development of a nation. Many countries made progression through education. Nevertheless, some of them also failed to retain the development achieved since these countries failed to supply required skilled workforce for emerging economics caused by ...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Kazi Enamul Hoque, Md. Taher Billal Khalifa, Saedah Binti Siraj et al.
This article analyses the prevailing situations of the agricultural sector in Bangladesh using both secondary and primary data. Findings show that agriculture was the main economic sector with an employment of 95% of total population with a share of 78% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1971. After...
S. M. Mostafa Kamal, Che Hashim Hassan, Gazi Mahabubul Alam
The discourse of dual burden caused through underweight and overweight is well-documented globally but this issue and its connection with women's health in Bangladesh is yet to be explored widely. To enrich the current debate, this study, in the context of Bangladesh, examines the patterns, prevalen...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Md. Abdur Rahman Forhad, Ismi Arif Ismail
Governments of developing nations and ‘development partners’ consider education as an ‘international product’ that makes economic advancement possible. Hence, education in developing nations is always sluggish in responding to the changes of contemporary concepts. The fourth industrial revolution is...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Md. Taher Billal Khalifa
The research for this paper, the first of its nature in Bangladesh, has been carried out through desk study, document review, interview, questionnaire and observation. Earlier findings had revealed that the community perceived education to be a social and public product. Significant changes to the p...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
Higher education (HE) serves to produce well trained and job-ready graduates. Despite this belief, whether HE produces certificates/qualifications or job-ready graduates—this debate remains unsettled. To date, the current COVID-19 pandemic which erupted in late 2019 continues to create much economic...
S. M. Mostafa Kamal, Che Hashim Hassan, Gazi Mahabubul Alam
This study examines the factors that influence institutional delivery among women in Bangladesh extracting data from 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. We employed both bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses in this study. Findings revealed that, only 14.7% of the women went for...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Sharia Arfin Tanim, Sumit Kanti Sarker, Yutaka Watanobe et al.
The transportation industry contributes significantly to climate change through carbon dioxide ( $$\hbox {CO}_{2}$$ ) emissions, intensifying global warming and leading to more frequent and severe weather phenomena such as flooding, drought, heat waves, glacier melting, and rising sea levels. This s...
Walter Leal Filho, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, Subarna Sivapalan, Halima Begum et al.
Purpose It is still unclear how Asian universities incorporate the theory or practice of sustainable development (SD) in their research and education programmes. To address this gap, the purpose of this paper is to report on a study that has examined how universities in Asian countries handle and ad...
Kazi Enamul Hoque, Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Abdul Ghani Kanesean Abdullah
Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Gyanendra Kumar Rout, Nibedita Priyadarshani
Business of state is to provide a decent life to its citizens giving a wider and increased access to the needs. In order to do so, business of state always concentrates to provide a better access to five fundamentals (that is, food, cloth, shelter, education and health) maintaining an increasing cur...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Md. Abdur Rahman Forhad
Following the fourth target of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), education disparity is one of the graver concerns delaying substantial economic development, especially in emerging market-based nations. Despite numerous efforts to address this disparity, it has been a long-st...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
Education is a basic human right and considered by many as a key tool for national development. However, this tenet has been challenged by several economists, especially Pritchett (1996). His empirical analysis suggests that many countries, whilst having a large educated population, remain unable to...