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Without education, development will not occur, only an educated people can command the skills necessary for sustainable economic growth and for a better quality of life. Recognizing this fact, African governments have placed heavy emphasis on expanding educational opportunities from primary...
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Empirical research on learning sources and outcomes requires that a comprehensive definition of lifelong learning categories is produced to enable an easy operationalization of learning variables. By combining existing definitions used in theoretical debates and empirical surveys, an attempt is...
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universal healthcare coverage in Bangladesh. Lack of scientific study on designing such scheme, in the Bangladesh context … health insurance schemes (offered to various corporate houses) of some reputed insurance companies in Bangladesh. In addition …
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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 … inequities in ANC and delivery care services using the latest three waves of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. This study …
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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 …
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-prone coastal community in Bangladesh. It applies the state-and-transition model, a widely used applied ecology model, to (1) assess …
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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 …
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,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 …
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Addressing extreme poverty remains a key challenge for development in Bangladesh. BRAC initiated the “Challenging the …
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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 …
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