Md Abdullah Omar, Kazuo Inaba
Abstract Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combating poverty and income inequality by opening blocked advancement opportunities for disadvantaged segments of the population. This study intends to investigate the impact of financial inclusion on reducing...
Md Arif-Ur-Rahman, Kazuo Inaba
Abstract Foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to generate external effects—usually termed FDI spillovers—for a host country, and these spillovers are thought to have consequences on the productivity of domestic firms. Despite this strong expectation, the empirical findings on FDI spillover ar...
Muhammad Shariat Ullah, Kazuo Inaba
The developing and least developed countries in the South and Southeast Asia have emerged as dynamic hosts of foreign direct investment; and inbound FDI growth surpassed that of the developing world during the decade 2001–2010. Yet foreign investment continues to flow quite unevenly into individual ...
Muhammad Shariat Ullah, Kazuo Inaba
Muhammad Shariat Ullah, Kazuo Inaba
Sumanta Kumar Saha, Jie Qin, Kazuo Inaba
This study analyzes the impact of financial inclusion on economic growth in 104 developing countries from 2004–2019. We construct a novel composite financial inclusion index and apply the dynamic panel estimation technique to examine the impact of financial inclusion. The results indicate that finan...
Md Arif-Ur-Rahman, Kazuo Inaba
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to generate external effects—usually termed FDI spillovers—for a host country, and these spillovers are thought to have consequences on the productivity of domestic firms. Despite this strong expectation, the empirical findings on FDI spillover are still i...
Ileas Mia Mohammad, Kazuo Inaba
RAHMAN Mohammad Sayedur, Md Masum, Muhammad Shariat Ullah, Taku Ishiro et al.
This study examines the structural dependence of Bangladesh’s textile and clothing industry (TCI) within the national production system and benchmarks it against Vietnam and Pakistan. Using an input–output framework, the analysis quantifies economy-wide losses in total output and gross value added (...
RAHMAN Mohammad Sayedur, Md Masum, Muhammad Shariat Ullah, Taku Ishiro et al.
This study examines the structural dependence of Bangladesh’s textile and clothing industry (TCI) within the national production system and benchmarks it against Vietnam and Pakistan. Using an input–output framework, the analysis quantifies economy-wide losses in total output and gross value added (...
Mohammad Ileas Mia, Kazuo Inaba
The purpose of this study is to investigate the return to education in Bangladesh.Several previous studies found the rate of return to education was just above 7, but these studies failed to account for sample selection bias and the endogeneity of education.Compared to the estimated results of other...
Mia Mohammad Ileas, Kazuo Inaba
Mohammad Ileas Mia, Kazuo Inaba
Md, Masum, Kazuo Inaba
The objective of this paper is to investigate the demand-supply structure of the textileclothing industry (TCI) of Bangladesh in comparison to China, Indonesia, India, and Viet Nam.These countries are the top five clothing-exporting nations in the world, and together they control 91% of clothing exp...
MASUM MD, Inaba Kazuo