The rice production of Bangladesh has been investigated using a Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function which incorporated a model for the technical inefficiency effects. The farm level primary data which is used for this study has been collected by stratified random sampling...

This study was carried out in farm households rearing livestock in three vulnerable districts, Sirajganj, Bogra and Jamalpur of Bangladesh. Based on primary data on 210 households in 2010, the study aimed at assessing the impact of rearing livestock on food consumption and nutrition of farm...

This study aims at estimating gross and net technical efficiencies using four alternative Cobb- Douglas stochastic production frontiers. This study reveals that production of wheat in Bangladesh is profitable and small farmers earned significantly higher yield and net returns per hectare than...

In this paper we investigate the impact of health related programmes on health outcomes of women and children by applying the method of difference-in-differences on repeated cross-sectional datasets. Health outcomes are measured using an anthropometric indicator: weight-for-height z-score. We...

In this paper we focus on the inequalities in utilization of maternal care and the associations between a macroeconomic policy and the use of maternal health care services in Bangladesh. We use four waves of a repeated cross-section dataset: the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 1997,...

In this paper we investigate the associations between macroeconomic policies and the health status of children in Bangladesh. We use three waves of a repeated cross-section dataset: Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2000, 2004 and 2007. We measure the health status of children by their...

In today's competitive world, credit risk poses a significant challenge to lending institutions such as microfinance institutions (MFIs) due to its impact on their long-term institutional and financial viability. In recent years, high employee turnover has also emerged as a threat to the...