Md. Elias Hossain

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at University of Rajshahi

Abstract Agricultural production is the backbone of the economy of Bangladesh. It provides livelihoods for millions and ensuring food security, but the profitability and productivity are increasingly strained by climate-induced stresses. This study is an effort to assess the impacts of climate change on agricultural profitability and productivity w...

Environmental amenities and recreational sites are the blessing of nature that promote sustainable urban life through raising living standard quality of urban residents. This study is an effort to assess the impact of environmental amenities and recreational sites on urban human life. For achieving research objectives primary data was obtained thro...

Bangladesh, being a populous country, possesses substantial potential in the leather manufacturing sector. The availability of raw materials, such as the hides of dairy creatures like buffalo and cow, is abundant in the national market due to cultural preferences. Additionally, Bangladesh benefits from cost-effective labour further bolstering its a...

Agriculture plays a crucial role in Bangladesh's economy by providing employment, alleviating poverty, enhancing food security, and supplying inputs for industrial production. While crops and cereals dominate the agricultural sector, fruits, including litchi, play a significant role in Bangladesh agriculture. However, it is found that litchi grower...

Background: Since mothers are the primary caregivers of children under five, their nutritional status depends on their mothers' capacity to feed and nurture them properly. However, mothers' poor child-feeding practices can also lead to child malnutrition. Mothers' nutritional education and childcare habits can improve children's health through chil...

Bangladesh Government has emphasized renewable energy generation and fixed a target to generate at least 150 MW of electricity from solar irrigation pumps (SIPs) by 2020; however, the generation was only about 46.98 MW. This study compared the life cycle costs (LCCs) between small solar, diesel and grid-connected irrigation pumps. The data on solar...

Modern agriculture is expensive as performing agricultural activities nowadays requires huge investment. But some farmers do not have sufficient money to purchase and use such modern inputs like power tiller, harvester, deep-tube wells, fertilizers and pesticides in many cases. In Bangladesh, farmers are always found to face difficulties in access...

Aims: In past, labour was extensively used in agriculture sector and there was huge surplus labour in agriculture sector. However, such trend has recently been changed where surplus labour in agricultural sector has reduced significantly and agriculture sector compete with non-agricultural sector in terms of hiring labour. Thus, the present study w...

Handloom is the most prominent cottage industry in Bangladesh. It provides the source of income and employment for a significant proportion of the rural labor force. However, in recent years, many handloom unit owners in Bangladesh have failed to operate their units with full capacity due to insufficient working capital. Credit support provided by...

Bangladesh is the most densely populated country in the world. With a total population of around 165 million, the country has constantly been facing food security challenges and other problems. Therefore, increasing food production is one of the feasible solutions to this challenge, and proper agricultural land use for food production bears critica...

The decaying trend of the Sundarbans due to loss of habitat, lack of provision of entrance fee, absence of tourism tax, and destruction of the resource base may restrict restoration of the Sundarbans mangrove forest ecosystems. We measure tourists’ willingness to pay (WTP) and revenue stream in response to the policy change of restoration schemes o...

Most of the economic sectors of the world are affected by the unembellished outspread of Covid-19. The economy of Bangladesh could not go beyond its adverse effect. This study tries to determine the complications of the SME sector of Cumilla district due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic situation and to indicate some strategic choices to ad...

Virtual interaction offers a diversified and smart learning environment. It works as an effective knowledge hub for the students to increase their satisfaction. This study assesses students’ satisfaction with virtual interaction-mediated learning and explores relevant contributors to the level of students’ satisfaction. Mixed methods were used for...

In the recent years, common-purpose financial statements and reporting are found to be inadequate to fulfill the demands of stakeholders who want some non-financial information relating to society and environment where corporations work. For increasing the level of accountability and providing intangible benefits for society, corporations generally...

A lack of adaptive capacities for climate change prevents poor farmers from diversifying agri-cultural production in Bangladesh’s drought-resilient areas. Climate change adaptation strategies can reduce the production risk relating to unforeseen climatic shocks and increase farmers’ food, income, and livelihood security. This paper investigates ric...

Education is the main component of human capital which helps to enhance skill and productivity of labor force and plays a significant role in increasing the earnings of individual employees. However, estimating the extent of private financial returns to education remained understudied in the context of Bangladesh. As there may be several factors wh...

In Bangladesh, farmers apply chemical fertilizer in agricultural production for obtaining higher crop yield. However, they often apply excessive amounts of chemical fertilizers compared to the doses as per the fertilizer recommendation guidelines of Bangladesh. Therefore, this study aims to measure the actual doses of different chemical fertilizers...

This study explores the major factors that push children onto the streets and focuses on their vulnerable livelihoods with hazardous lifestyles. The study mainly concentrates on simple statistical ana- lysis of primary data collected from direct collaborations with the children on the streets of Rajshahi city and their families. This study find...

Barind Tract, located in the NorthWest region of Bangladesh is a drought prone water stressed area. Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has made this desert like zone into a granary one through various activities including irrigation as major. Now, the agricultural pattern, cropping intensity, methods of cultivation, crop variety and y...

Although parks and recreational sites have enormous economic, social and environmental importance, they generally receive less prominence at the time of evaluation. The reason behind such disregard stems from the problem of value imputation in the absence of any market price mechanism for these resources. The main objective of this study is to esti...

This presentation was tried to present the major factors that push children to live on the street and also focused on their hazardous life styles. This paper was presented at the FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES”, organized by the faculty of social science, University of...

Scarcity of surface water especially in the dry season and comparatively less rainfall than country average in the Barind Tract Areas leads to crop production dependency on groundwater(GW) irrigation which was started in 1985 through Barind Integrated Area Development project (BIADP). Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has a great con...

The study is an attempt to examine the socio-economic effects of microfinance of Grameen Bank (GB) on borrower households in the study area. It investigates socio-economic changes occurred among the borrower households in the reference time period. In this regard this study collects required information from 168 respondents in the study area using...

A major portion of the cultivable land of Bangladesh is located in its southwest coastal region and this land has been contributing to provide food security and support livelihoods of the people. However, in the recent past, cultivable land in this region has decreased due to salinity, which caused to degrade productive land and diminish crop produ...

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Globally, international remittance is now an important issue due to its notable contribution to socio-economic improvement of the developing economies like Bangladesh. The impact of international remittance on poverty reduction is not clear yet in Bangladesh. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the asymmetric relation between international re...

Broiler raising is an important variant of poultry farming in Banlgadesh. This study explores the profitability and constraints of broiler farming in Bangladesh. The study is mainly based on primary data collected from 60 broiler farmers of Bagmara upazila under Rajshahi district of Bangladesh. The study estimates the profit function to measure the...

The study explores the significant factors and utilization of international remittance in Bangladesh by using primary data from 84 migrant households. The study applies multiple linear regression model estimated by OLS method. The estimated results find that household size, training, skill, years at abroad and earnings significantly affect internat...

This study is designed to explore the determinants of profitability of handloom weaving units operating in Kumarkhali upazila under Kushtia district of Bangladesh. Following multistage random sampling technique, the required data for this study are collected from 120 handloom unit owners who have been operating their units in this upazila. In the s...

Although parks and recreational sites have enormous economic, social and environmental importance, they generally receive less prominence at the time of evaluation. The reason behind such disregard stems from the problem of value imputation in the absence of any market price mechanism for these resources. The main objective of this study is to esti...

Smallholder farmers of Bangladesh struggle for a long time with access to markets due to lack storage and processing facilities. This paper investigates the market orientation status of smallholder farmers in Bangladesh. Using field survey data from 100 smallholder farmers of Durgapur upazila under Rajshahi district, we have calculated a household...

Like other developing countries, Bangladesh is struggling to meet the food needs for its population. There are two possible solutions to this problem- import of food products and increasing national food production. In Bangladesh, increase in agricultural production is hindered by various constraints inherent in the sector such as low availability...

Although food security has become a growing concern in the developing countries, scant attention has been given on assessing the status of food security among the urban slum dwellers living in the major cities of Bangladesh. Therefore, this study is an attempt to assess the food security situation of slum households under different socioeconomic ch...

Although food security has become a growing concern in the developing countries, scant attention has been given on assessing the status of food security among the urban slum dwellers living in the major cities of Bangladesh. Therefore, this study is an attempt to assess the food security situation of slum households under different socio-economic c...

The agriculture sector of Bangladesh is negatively a ff ected from climate change due to its high exposure to extreme events and low adaptive capacity. Thus this paper tries to examine the determinants of farmers’ preference for adaptation strategies and constraints to climate change adaption faced by the rice farmers’ in Rajshahi district, Banglade...

Rice farming dominates the farming system of Bangladesh, accounting for 75% of gross cropped area. Rice-farming environment is not the same in all parts of the country. Productivity and efficiency of rice production varies from one region to another. This paper is an effort to estimate the level of technical efficiency of rice farms operating in Me...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the extent of income and crop diversification in Rajshahi district. The paper also tried to find out the constraints associated with the diversification in the study area. Primary data have been collected from selected farmers of three upazillas in Rajshahi district. Simpson Index of Diversity (SID) was...

Diversification of income is considered as an effective way to increase household wellbeing in the developing countries. However, scant attention has been given on this issue in the context of Bangladesh. Thus, the objective of this study is to present an empirical evidence of the state of income diversification and its impact on households' wellbe...

This paper explores the market participation decision of smallholder farmers in Bangladesh and tries to sort out the most important factors that influence smallholder farmers' decision to participate in the output market to sell their produce in Bangladesh. To examine the relationship between the smallholder farmers' decision to participate in the...

Although rice is the main crop in Bangladesh and the country is ranked as the sixth largest rice producer in the world, researchers observe that rice is not produced with full efficiency in the country. It is also observed that owing to the application of high yielding variety seeds, chemical fertilizer, pesticide, and irrigation, productivity of r...

This paper evaluates rice farmers' perception and climatic variability using climate record. Adaptive capacities of rice farmers to climate change adaption strategies for the Rajshahi district were also identified. Forty two years of climate data on temperature and rainfall (1972-2013) from the Bangladesh Metrological Department (BMD) for Rajshahi...

Using cointegration and error-correction mechanism techniques, this paper investigated the causal relationship between domestic demand, export and economic growth using data pertaining to Bangladesh's final household consumption and government consumption as a measure of domestic demand, real exports, and real GDP over the period 1971–2011. It is f...

Agriculture is the mainstay of Bangladesh economy. It plays important role to the growth and development of the economy of the country. Most of the farmers of Bangladesh are marginal and small farmers. They consume most part of their produced commodities. The market participation rate of them with surplus production is very low. Therefore, the main...

The present study is an effort to investigate the relationship among money, price and output for Bangladesh over the period 1974 to 2012. The estimated results of vector error correction model based on VAR indicate the existence of long-run bidirectional causality between money supply and output, and unidirectional causality from price level to mon...

Girls' education is known as an essential component to skilled human resource development and for enhancing their socioeconomic status in all societies across the world. It has been recognized as panacea to sustainable social development. Using qualitative research methodology, this research was aimed at exploring socio-cultural barriers of girls'...

The present study is an attempt to analyze the present situation of food security in Bangladesh. The government of Bangladesh is firmly committed to ensure food for all, as enshrined in the Constitution. Food security situation in Bangladesh has improved, especially on the availability side. On national scale, Bangladesh has achieved food self-suff...

This study investigates the relationship between agriculture and economic growth in Bangladesh, employing the Vector Autoregression (VAR) approach. VAR is an active system of models in which the current level of each endogenous variable in the system depends on past movements of all variables and it determines how much influence each of the endogen...

Agriculture is the mainstay of Bangladesh economy. It plays important role to the growth and development of the economy of the country. Most of the farmers of Bangladesh are marginal and small farmers. They consume most part of their produced commodities. The market participation rate of them with surplus production is very low. Therefore, the main...

Bangladesh represents a valuable case study for investing the dynamics of steadily high rates of budget and trade deficits. In this study an attempt has been made to empirically test the validity of Twin deficits hypothesis for Bangladesh using annual time series data from 1972-73 to 2011-12 fiscal year. Applying the VAR and Granger Causality after...

By using cointegration and error-correction rnechanism techniques, the present study investigites the causal relationship between human capital, export and econotnic growth in Bangladesh. We use time series data on Bangladesh's higher education attainment. real exports, and real GDP forthe period l98l-2011. The estimated results of the vector error...

The study aims at investigating the determinants of farm-level adoption pattern of hybrid rice varieties. Empirical data were collected from 200 farmers via questionnaires. Among the respondent farmers, the majority (56.50%) have adopted hybrid rice variety. In this paper a Logistic Regression Model is employed to explain the contribution of the de...

This study is an effort to explore the determinants of participation decision of women labor force in farm and non-farm activities. The study used field level survey data collected from 100 rural married women living at Birampur Upazila of Dinajpur District in Bangladesh. A binary logistic regression model has been applied to estimate the contribut...

The Handloom industry is the biggest and the most important cottage industry of Bangladesh. It plays important role in the economy of Bangladesh and on the livelihood of the rural people. The present study is an attempt to analyze the cost-benefit of handloom weavers operating in Kumarkhali Upazila of Kushtia District. The study is mainly based on...

This study presents empirical evidence to show how socio-economic factors influence the extent and intensity of fertilizer adoption on rice production in Rajshahi district. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select 90 rice farmers from the study area. Probit and Tobit regression models were used for analysis. The results of the ana...

rhis study presents empiricql evidence to show how socioeconomic factors influence the extent and intensity of fertilizer adoption on rice production in Rajshahi district. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select 90 rice farmers from the study areq. Probit and robit regression models were used for analysis. The results of the anal...

The present study is an effort to investigate the macroeconomic trends in Bangladesh. The study is based on secondary data which were collected from different sources. The study found that the growth pattern of Bangladesh economy has been relatively strong during the 1990s and 2000s showing considerable improvement over the previous two decades. Du...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the level of farm mechanization in Rajshahi district. It also tried to find out the constraints associated with farm mechanization in the study area. To obtain the objectives primary data have been collected from selected farmers of nine Upazilas of Rajshahi district. It is fbund that moderate level of...

From the beginning of the green revolution, achieving self-sufficiency in rice production has been the main issue of concern for Bangladesh. Comparing the rice productivity of Bangladesh with other major rice producing countries it is observed that rice yield per hectare is only about 1.7 tones, significantly low compared to other rice producing co...

The handloom weaving industry is one of the ancient cottage industries in Bangladesh. Next to agriculture, it is the second largest sources of rural employment and income. The present study is an effort to investigate the present scenario of handloom weaving industries in Bangladesh. The study is based on secondary data. The data used in this study...

The potential contribution of foreign aid to economic growth has been an ongoing subject of much controversy among development economists. This study is an attempt to investigate the long-run and causal relationship between foreign aid and economic growth in Bangladesh by applying for recent advances in econometric methods such as cointegration, Gr...

The handloom weaving industry is one of the ancient cottage industries in Bangladesh. Next to agriculture, it is the second largest sources of rural employment and income. The present study is an effort to investigate the present scenario of handloom weaving industries in Bangladesh. The study is based on secondary data. The data used in this study...

This paper analyzes the contribution of services sector as well as pollution implication of services sector for the production of different industries in the Malaysian economy. In the first part, the purpose of this paper is to provide direct and indirect service intensities that reveal the contribution of services sector in the Malaysian economy....

Bangladeshi economy over the last decade has occurred within the framework of a liberal trade and small investment regime as a small open economy. However the environmental problem arises due to all goods and services produced in the economy are directly or indirectly associated with power, energy use (various petroleum oil, gas or coal) and, accor...