Girijasankar Mallik, Anis Chowdhury
This paper seeks to examine the relationship between inflation and GDP growth for four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). A comparison of empirical evidence is obtained from the cointegration and error correction models using annual data collected from the IMF Interna...
Sayma Rahman, P. N. Junankar, Girijasankar Mallik
Women's empowerment in relation to microcredit programmes is a prominent issue in the literature of microcredit. Not only the founder of the Grameen Bank is awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize on the microcredit programme of Bangladesh but it has also been a topic of great interest to researchers sin...
Sayma Rahman, P. N. Junankar, Girijasankar Mallik
In recent years, microcredit programmes have received wider global attention targeting the poor in developing countries. Study conducted by United Nations (2004)1 shows that more than one billion people around the world live below the poverty line, which particularly includes women and children of d...
Zaira Adnan, Mamta Banu Chowdhury, Girijasankar Mallik
This study attempts to find the effect of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity (TFP) for the four major South Asian economies namely Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka considering other variables such as human capital, trade openness, government expenditure and CPI as signif...
Sayma Rahman, Girijasankar Mallik, Pramod N. Junankar