Nayeem Sultana’s research while affiliated with University of Dhaka and other places

The complexity of poverty is widely acknowledged, as it involves various contributing factors. This study centers on implementing the modified Alkire-Foster methodology to establish a multidimensional poverty index. Utilizing data from the 2019 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, encompassing three dimensions and ten well-being indicators, the analysis demonstrates that considering all indicators (= 10,352) with no missing cases yields a multidimensional poverty index of 0.150. However, when incorporating missing cases as non-deprived individuals (= 59,066), the index decreases to 0.104. Furthermore, utilizing modified principal component analysis, the poverty index is assessed at 0.260 (= 10,352). The study's findings suggest that individuals in rural areas, particularly those headed by males, experience heightened deprivation compared to their counterparts.

Purpose – The Rohingyas are forcefully displaced from Myanmar and sheltered in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh. They have outnumbered the local people indicating a critical condition of their living situation after the year 2017 influx. The aim of this paper is to present how coexistence has impacted social cohesion and reconciliation among different groups of Rohingyas and host communities. Design/methodology/approach – A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 903 households through a multistage stratified random sampling. Social cohesion and reconciliation (SCORE) index was measured as a multifaceted theoretical construct based on the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Findings – The findings of this study are inclined toward the miracle of social cohesion and reconciliation between the Rohingya and host communities. Also, it is revealed that youth, males and Rohingyas who came before the year 2017 influx are more cohesive. In the host or local community, people having lower income, less education and involvement with the informal sector are revealed as less cohesive. Practical implications – This study suggests vocational training as a short-term, cash-for-work as a mid-term and repatriation, proper identity, and protection services as long-term strategic plans to make the two communities more cohesive. Originality/value – This study focuses on the SCORE indexes with a quantitative format, applying a second-order factor model.

In the present era of globalization, broadband penetration which indicates access to high-speed internet has allowed the transferring of information in a way that was never observed before. With the growing world-wide investment and attention received by broadband infrastructure, this study examines the relationship between broadband penetration and economic growth with a panel data consisting of ten Asian countries over 2001–2015. This study uses a structural equation modeling approach to estimate the relationship between endogenous broadband penetration and economic growth through two-stage least squares, three-stage generalized method of moments and full-information maximum likelihood estimation. A positive and significant impact of broadband penetration on economic growth is found controlling individual effect of countries.

Human trafficking has received increased media and national attention. Despite concerted efforts to combat human trafficking, the trade in persons persists and in fact continues to grow. This paper describes the relationship and distinction between trafficking and ethnic fragmentation, conflict, internally displaced person by different measures of control. To explain the relationship between these factors, this study uses a Probit regression model. It appears that ethnic conflict leads the internal displacement of individuals from networks of family and community, and their access to economic and social safety nets.

This paper checks whether per capita real gross domestic product (GDP) series in 16 Asian countries are nonstationary or nonlinear and globally stationary during the period from 1970 to 2009, by applying the nonlinear unit root tests developed by Kapitanios, Shin and Snell (2003). In five out of the sixteen countries that is approximately one-third of the countries, the series are found to be stationary with asymmetric or nonlinear mean reversion. Analyses depict that nonlinear unit root test are suitable for some cases compare to the commonly used unit root test, Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Dickey-Fuller Generalized Least Square (DF-GLS) tests.

In the time of the flooding, rural people in Bangladesh suffer from the lingering effects of labor market disruption and income deficiency. This study shows a model based analysis on the research question, ‘what coping strategies are followed by the flooded households in Bangladesh and how?’. Data are collected through a three stage stratified random sampling technique on 595 flooded and rural households’. Survey is carried out aftermath of the flood in the year 2005, from four different districts in Bangladesh. A major proportion of households are found to borrow money or resources from informal sources, such as nearby shops or the pharmacy, friends or relatives, or local money lenders, to buy food items and other essentials. A censored tobit model analysis shows that households initiate coping with borrowing money after the realization of floods, and gradually lead to cope with savings and selling assets as the duration of flood increases.