Meherun Ahmed

Asian University for Women · Economics

The recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created economic hardships for all types of businesses throughout the world. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seem to have been hit the hardest because of their inability or inflexibility to withstand such prolonged and worldwide shocks. Since SMEs employ the largest workforce in all the coun...

Background: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are major public health problem in both developing and developed countries. Medical students should have adequate knowledge about STI as they will be dealing with patients in future. The objective of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and attitude about STIs among medical students. Materials...

Households move strategically to smooth consumption in the event of economic shocks. This paper comprehensively analyzes various coping schemes adopted by households in the event of different types and intensity of economic shocks. We conclusively find that erosive coping is a dominant strategy for households for all types of shocks except for the...

It is well established in literature that investments in women’s education and health contribute to their empowerment, which eventually lead to better economic outcomes at the household level and consequently at the national level. Empowerment at the very micro levels contributes to macro level improvements, even though strict attribution and assoc...

Disaster risk reduction and management entails integration of multiple dimensions, the success of which depend upon the strength of institutions coordinating such interventions. This chapter focuses on SDG 16 in relation to disaster risk management, while discussing the literature investigating the influence of regulatory capabilities on disaster r...

This study found negative relationship between income status, educational status with health risks of mothers. Education of mothers is positively related with pregnancy complicacy, safe delivery, ultrasonography and negatively related with normal delivery. The more the mothers get educated they face more pregnancy complication, but it also increase...

Since 1972, waves of Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh fleeing the military-backed human rights violations in their native Myanmar. Despite attempts of repatriation and the government’s consistent refusal to integrate the Rohingyas, an indefinite number has assimilated in mainland Bangladesh. Considering the daunting challenges to quantify...

Climate change is a global phenomenon being experienced by all levels of society, and in different types of ecosystems. It can have adverse impact on food security, water supply, and livelihood among others, especially for the poor and more vulnerable sections of human society.This book explores theoretical frameworks, adaptation strategies and loc...

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development more sustainable. The United Nations has ac...

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Climate change is a global phenomenon being experienced by all levels of society, and in different types of ecosystems. It can have adverse impact on food security, water supply, and livelihood among others, especially for the poor and more vulnerable sections of human society.This book explores theoretical frameworks, adaptation strategies and loc...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between intra-household bargaining process and investment in children’s health using Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey data for 2003. We introduce new and direct measures of empowerment which reflect a wife’s relative say in different decision making contexts. To correct the potential bias from the...

The Added Worker Effect (AWE) refers to an increase in the labor supply of secondary earners in a household in response to a decrease in the income of the primary earner. Most empirical research on the AWE has focused on increases in the labor force participation of married women when their husbands experience unemployment spells, but recent govern...

p class="Default">Domestic Violence against women is very common in both developing and developed countries and is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. However, global developments have yet to be systematically assimilated into theories around violence against women. This study seeks to examine the associations between domestic violence agai...

Following widespread criticisms of the conventional MFI framework, Plan Bangladesh, an INGO devised a flexible credit scheme characterized by door to door collection of deposits and loan repayments on a day to day basis. The scheme departs from the joint liability mechanism practiced by traditional MFIs in an effort to disburse services to the ultr...

Women are vulnerable due to limited access to economic opportunities, capital, land, and skills in rural Bangladesh. In 2005, Kazi Shahid Foundation (KSF), an independent welfare organization has promoted an innovative “Specialized Dairy Farming Model” linking with the commercial organic tea plantation, organic produces, and biogas production to im...

This paper uses household-level data from a nationally representative survey conducted in 2009 and 2010 in Bangladesh to determine the relationship between coping mechanisms and having access to credits. The analysis finds that more than half of the sample claimed to have faced shocks over the years. The paper also discusses the coping strategies h...

The literature on mother's education and child health casually observes some nonlinearities and also a threshold in the relationship. Even though this nonlinearity or threshold has significant bearing on policy matters such as quality of education, any rigorous attempt to address this issue is missing in the literature. With height for age z-score...

Households move strategically to smooth consumption in the event of economic shocks. This paper comprehensively analyzes various coping schemes adopted by households in the event of different types and intensity of economic shocks. We conclusively find that erosive coping is a dominant strategy for households except asset shocks. It is also evident...

This paper studies the effect of fiscal and political decentralisation on the death toll by disasters for up to 46 developing and transitional economies from 1974 to 2004. The results show that elected government at the local level does not help mitigate disaster risk. This study underscores the importance of the joint effects of different forms of...

This paper uses a novel conceptual framework and a large-scale household survey to study the phenomena of crisis and coping in rural Bangladesh. The empirical exercise is composed of two parts. The first part examines the prevalence of various kinds of shocks in rural Bangladesh and identified a number of important determinants of vulnerability to...

The Added Worker Effect (AWE) refers to an increase in the labor supply of secondary earners in a household in response to a decrease in the income of the primary earner. Most empirical research on the AWE has focused on increases in the labor force participation of married women when their husbands experience unemployment spells, but recent govern...

The role of decentralized government in disaster management is well recognized among international donors and policy makers. However, there has been no rigorous attempt to address this issue. This paper studies the effect of fiscal and political decentralization on the death toll and the number of people affected by disasters for up to 46 developin...

The literature on mother's education and child health casually observes some nonlinearities and also a threshold in the relationship. Even though this nonlinearity or threshold has significant bearing on policy matters, any rigorous attempt to address this issue is missing in the literature. With height for age z score (HAZ) as a proxy for long run...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-111).

In this paper I investigate the intra-household bargaining process and investment in children's health using Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey data for 2003. I introduce new and direct measures of empowerment which reflect a wife's relative say in different decision making contexts. To correct the potential bias from the endogeneity of the emp...