Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect some internal features that influence efficiency non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach selected top 15 Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)-listed NBFIs according purposive sampling. period was from 2016 2020. Secondary data were collected annual reports. cost-to-income ratio a dependent variable used...

Abstract The objective of this study is to examine the aspects investment in human capital like training employees, education level knowledge and skills employees that influence performance a bank provide some comments improve banking sectors. This research included conceptual model along with hypotheses. empirical based on primary data. data were obtained by convenient sampling procedure quest...

<p>Groundwater is a vital source of irrigation and domestic purposes in Bangladesh, hence, it must satisfy the water quality guidelines. The study has selected eleven (11) Districts Bangladesh collect secondary data regarding groundwater. Several indices, such as soluble sodium percentage (SSP), adsorption ratio (SAR), magnesium (MAR), residual carbonate (RSC), Kelly’s (KR), permeability ...

Purpose: The study aims to investigate the impact of financial derivatives use on bank risk. For this purpose, banks operating in D-8 countries, are investigated. 
 Design/Methodology: While relationship between risk and derivative utilize is examined, some bank-specific control variables added model. Due sample structure endogeneity problem study, hypotheses were tested again by using Gen...

Performing interventions is a major challenge in economic policy-making. We propose causal strategic inference as a framework for conducting interventions and apply it to large, networked microfinance economies. The basic solution platform consists of modeling a microfinance market as a networked economy, learning the parameters of the model from the real-world microfinance data, and designing ...

In the Western world, consumers complain about the soaring of non-interest bank fees during the recent years, the post global financial crisis in particular. Commercial banks charge a variety of non-interest fees for their transactions. This paper empirically tests whether the free charges are significantly different between conventional commercial banks and interest free Islamic banks. The ave...

Since the 1990s, gender mainstreaming has been a widely accepted strategy for promoting gender equality within governments, multilateral agencies, and development NGOs, although critics continue to question its premises and results. This paper reviews how the development agencies of Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea, as well as the Asian Development Bank, have sought to p...

biodiversity degradation, lose of wetlands and arsenic pollution are becoming the major environmental threats of bangladesh. huge number of population, corruption and lack of capacity of the governmental agencies are deteriorating the over environmental condition of bangladesh. this paper reports the findings of ngos and their role in protection of wetlands of bangladesh. ministry of environmen...

as a signatory of different international instruments approbating women’s empowerment, bangladesh is committed to playing a lead role especially in the harmonious field of gender-sensitive employment for its citizens. many laws and regulations have been made to combat the ideas and practices of depriving women of their rights. but the provisions regarding the rights of women in these instrument...