Although the adoption of economic structural adjustment and health sector reforms have been a more recent phenomenon in Asia compared with many other developing regions, considerable concern has been raised about the impact of these policies on the poor in Asia. In Bangladesh, the influence of the World Bank and other donor agencies has also raised many questions about the role of the internati...

Nutritional intakes of food bank recipients and consequently their health status largely rely on the availability and quality of donated food in provided food parcels. In this cross-sectional study, the nutritional quality of ninety-six individual food parcels was assessed and compared with the Dutch nutritional guidelines for a healthy diet. Furthermore, we assessed how food bank recipients us...

Setting: BRAC, a non-governmental organisation, implemented a modified smoking cessation programme for tuberculosis ( TB) patients based on International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease ( The Union) guidelines in 17 peri-urban centres of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Objective: To determine whether a modified version of The Union’s smoking cessation intervention was effective in promoting cess...

The aim of this paper is to give some recommendations for the improvement of the level of information security of university information systems. For this purpose two standards/guidelines are presented: COBIT/ISACF and BS 7799. COBIT is an open system that includes guidelines for implementation and evaluation of information technology control. BS 7799 is a closed system which includes guideline...

BACKGROUND More than 60,000,000 Bangladeshis are drinking water with unsafe concentrations of one or more elements. OBJECTIVES Our aims in this study were to evaluate and improve the drinking water testing and treatment plans for western Bangladesh. METHODS We sampled groundwater from four neighborhoods in western Bangladesh to determine the distributions of arsenic, boron, barium, chromium...

Abstract Financial deregulation after financial repression during 1980s and 1990s has stimulated a fierce competition among banks across the world. In pace with this, banking industry of Bangladesh is also experiencing an intense competition, since it composed large number banks. Considering this upsurge, our study aims to explore impact efficiency on stability Bangladeshi over 2009–2017. For e...

The characterization of pro-poor growth, including the sources through which the poor benefit from public interventions, remains a topic of debate in the current development literature. This paper examines the impact of a range of policies across villages in rural Bangladesh (spanning credit and infrastructure expansion, as well as agricultural output pricing) not only on different sources of i...

The aim of this paper is to present a model based on Multilayer perceptron neural networks to recognize bad or good credit customers. Credit risk is one of the major problems in banking sector. Banks are faced with credit Risk while doing their tasks. Credit risk is the probability of non-repayment of bank loan granted to lenders. Decreasing Credit Risk, banks may perform better duties and resp...