This paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or … illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey data for 2002 … subjective health across age groups, we find that health disadvantages for different age groups are not essentially parallel. …

health insurance schemes (offered to various corporate houses) of some reputed insurance companies in Bangladesh. In addition …Introducing compulsory health insurance for government employees bears immense importance for stepping towards … universal healthcare coverage in Bangladesh. Lack of scientific study on designing such scheme, in the Bangladesh context …

inequities in ANC and delivery care services using the latest three waves of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. This study … safer for women has been slow in many developing countries. Though Bangladesh has achieved commendable progress in reducing … Bangladesh during 2004-2011. We employ rich-poor ratio, concentration curve and concentration index to examine the trends of …

Overall inflation in Bangladesh saw a surge in inflation rate amid rising trend of global commodity prices in the last … Bangladesh. Descriptive analysis suggests that moderate inflation (e.g., 6-7%) is favourable for the development of the financial … performance of the financial sector in Bangladesh. The analysis broadly suggests that increasing management and operational …

-prone coastal community in Bangladesh. It applies the state-and-transition model, a widely used applied ecology model, to (1) assess …

Agriculture is a major economic activity in Bangladesh. It currently employs around 50 percent of country’s labor force … economy through various channels. It is important to note that, at the WTO, Bangladesh, as an LDC, is not bound to undertake … measures might have important negative implications for the net food importing countries like Bangladesh. It is also important …

,800 rural households from 12 districts of Bangladesh over the period 2007–2010, we estimated a three-stage hierarchical logit …–2008 unequivocally aggravated food insecurity in the rural areas of Bangladesh in 2008; (2) there was some weak evidence to suggest that …

Addressing extreme poverty remains a key challenge for development in Bangladesh. BRAC initiated the “Challenging the …

households in Bangladesh. It appears that during early 2008 the prices of rice, pulses and edible oil increased tremendously … which threatened the status of food security of these poor and vulnerable households in Bangladesh. As a result of the price …

Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …