Purpose The economic development of Bangladesh is heavily reliant on the banking industry, yet it faces numerous hurdles, including liquidity issues, capital shortages, non-performing loans, inefficiencies and so on. Therefore, this study investigated performance efficiency scheduled banks (state-owned, private commercial, foreign commercial specialized banks) operating in Bangladesh. Design/me...

Mobile banking (M-bank), a newly introduced technology, can improve women’s access to financial services. This study empirically estimates the effect of husband’s and wife’s socioeconomic characteristics, relative differences in age education, household characteristics on M-bank use northern Bangladesh, exploring presence possible gender gap between husband wife. A couple’s or education functio...

Bangladesh entered into the era of financial reform during the early 1980s. Most of the reforms initiated by the government have concentrated predominantly on the banking sector. Consequently, many changes relating to ownership, market concentration, regulatory measures and policies have taken place primarily to enhancing bank performance. In this regard, this study is undertaken to investigate...

In this study, we present a new classifier that combines the distance-based algorithm K-Nearest Neighbor and statistical based Naïve Bayes Classifier. That is equipped with the power of both but avoid their weakness. The performance of the proposed algorithm in terms of accuracy is experimented on some standard datasets from the machine-learning repository of University of California and compar...

Since the early 1970s, with the formation of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh by the eminent Mohammed Yunus, the microfinance movement has spread throughout the developing and developed world as a weapon in the fight against poverty. However, success of the Grameen model has not been followed by success in different economic and social settings. These failures have been due to several factors inc...

The Nobel Prize committee awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.” The microfinance revolution has come a long way since Yunus first provided financing to the poor in Bangladesh. The committee has recognized microfinance as “an important liberating force” and an “ever more important instru...

This study's background is in the context of comparative activities and achievements highlighted by Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited their Annual Report 2020. The purpose this study to present socio-economic impact role Islamic banks economic development Bangladesh. research has tried prove how contributes through various tests methods. Comprehensive profile analysis was conducted collecting data...

Confirmatory factor analysis of data (from 5 samples, n = 484 full-time employed management students; n = 550 public administrators; n = 214 university administrators; n = 250 bank managers and employees in Bangladesh; and n = 578 managers and employees) on the 28 items of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-II were performed with LISREL 7. The results provided support for the convergen...

BACKGROUND While norms are important for educational attainment, especially in the developing world, there are relatively few studies on this topic. This paper, which explores attitudes toward gender equality in education among Bangladeshis, should therefore be of interest to both academics and policymakers. OBJECTIVE In this paper, we seek to identify which factors affect the norms regarding t...

BACKGROUND According to the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS, 33.2 million adults and children are living with the infection worldwide. Of these, two to three million are estimated to be in South Asia. All countries of the region have a low prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, it is important to review the current epidemiological data to identify the trends of infe...