Jahir Uddin Palas, Golam Sorwar, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Achchuthan Sivabalan
BACKGROUND: Despite the high usage of mobile phones in daily life in developing countries like Bangladesh, the adoption and usage of mHealth services have been significantly low among the elderly population. When searching previous studies, the researchers have found that no studies have empirically...
Fatema Khatun, Jahir Uddin Palas, Pradeep Ray
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives: Cloud-based mHealth services have the potential to make quality healthcare available in remote locations in the world. A practical deployment will involve medicolegal issues involving physicians and patients in different within and across countries. However, the f...
Jahir Uddin Palas, Golam Sorwar, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Achchuthan Sivabalan
Abstract Background: mHealth (mobile health) has a far-reaching impact on delivering health services to a low-resource and remote population, especially elderlies with regular and emergency health needs in developing nations. Even though the high usage of mobile phones in daily life in developing co...
Md. Jahir Uddin Palas, Mahfuz Ashraf, Ali Quazi, Helena Grunfeld et al.
Indigenous peoples are being marginalised globally from a socioeconomic perspective and are often excluded from mainstream communities for social and/or geographic reasons. Historically, they tend to have lower living standards, including poor health conditions as compared to the rest of the populat...
Md. Jahir Uddin Palas, Ramiz Uddin, Mahmudul Hassan
In the era of digitalisation, process simplification and automation are the calls of the day. The Government of Bangladesh has also been prioritising the digitalisation factor in each sector of public administration. Taxes and utility bills contribute to the public revenue, which has a great role in...
Md. Jahir Uddin Palas, Fernando Moreira
Abstract This study investigates the impact of the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) on recipient banks' efficiency. While the related literature typically relies on the Difference‐in‐Differences (DiD) approach, which has considerable limitations in this context, we conduct Instrumental Variable analys...
Jahir Uddin Palas, Benazir Imam Majumder
This study develops an interpretable early-warning framework to predict financial distress among non-life insurers operating in a thin-premium market context. While prior studies widely rely on traditional models such as the Z-score, a critical research gap remains, as these models are not well-suit...
Md. Jahir Uddin Palas, Benazir Imam Majumder
This study develops an interpretable early-warning framework to predict financial distress among non-life insurers in Bangladesh. A 2014–2024 firm-year panel is utilized to compare penalized logistic regression, random forest, and gradient- boosted trees, apply class-balance remedies, and map model ...
M. Jahir Uddin Palas, M. Adnan Ahmed
This study investigates whether investor sentiment shapes dividend policy among publicly listed firms in Bangladesh by testing the hypothesis that firms alter their dividend smoothing practices in response to market optimism. We utilise a balanced panel of 116 firms from 2010 to 2021, applying robus...
Md. Asif Nawaz, Md. Jahir Uddin Palas, Tasneema Khan
We study the relationship between managerial efficiency and bank profitability in the context of the U.S. banking sector. We utilize Stochastic Frontier Analysis based on a dataset of 4081 U.S. banks, spanning from 2009 to 2021. Two key findings emerge: firstly, geographical disparities exist in ope...
Md. Jahir Uddin Palas
This study investigates the influence of economic factors in ensuring access to financial services. Financial service accessibility is assessed using metrics such as the number of bank branches and ATMs per 100,000 people, as well as an index derived from these indicators. Drawing from existing lite...
Mahmudul Islam, Md. Jahir Uddin Palas, Ramiz Uddin
In the era of digitalisation, process simplification and automation are the calls of the day. The Government of Bangladesh has also been prioritising the digitalisation factor in each sector of public administration. Taxes and utility bills contribute to the public revenue, which has a great role in...
Jahir Uddin Palas, Asif Nawaz, Ezaz Ahmed