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Item Cities in Crisis: Exploring Discontents and Challenges of Unplanned Urban Growth in Bangladesh(Britain International of Humanities and Social Sciences (BIoHS) Journal, 2025-06-30) Biswas, Buddha Dev; Matin, ShairaUrbanization has accelerated rapidly over the past few decades in all divisional cities of Bangladesh. This paper closely examines the nature and extent of urbanization in Bangladesh, particularly in Dhaka and Chittagong the two mega cities of the country. It provides a historical analysis of migration patterns, changes in population structure, and the pressure on infrastructure, health facilities, education, electricity supply, safe drinking water in urban centres, with a special focus on the expanding slum sector. Qualitative data analysis on the scale of migration is used to model the stakes in social systems and urban architecture. A primary analysis of infrastructure deficits in transportation, housing, and public services assesses the system’s limited capacity to meet current urban demands. To gauge the depth of urban discontent, sanitation, lighting, and access to food, water, and clothing in slum areas are also examined. Inspired by Ananya Roy’s work, the study uses subaltern urbanism to highlight informal settlements not as urban failures rather as an alternative urban development through innovation, resistance and alternative forms of urban modernity. Finally, policy debates and urban planning prescriptions are presented to address these challenges, aiming to enhance Bangladesh's future urban development by reducing vulnerability and promoting inclusive growth. This paper contributes to the literature on sustainable urban development in rapidly developing regions.Item Reeling in Hope: Can Fishery Credit Really Improve Food Expenditure Status for Poor Fish Farming Communities in Rural Bangladesh?(Rural Development Institute, Brandon University., 2024-05-21) Syed, Robayet Ferdous; Mahmud, Kazi Tanvir; Hossain, Jinat; Matin, Shairahe fish farming communities in Bangladesh often find themselves trapped in poverty due to limited resources and low living standards. Many of these communities face financial constraints, struggling to secure credit from formal financial institutions. This compels them toturn to informal lending sources with unfavorable terms and conditions. To address this challenge, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have taken the initiative to provide credit facilities to these fish farming communities. In this study, we employed the Simple Random Sampling (SRS) technique to select 385 fish farmers from the Khulna district who had received credit support from NGOs. The Propensity Score Matching (PSM) technique was then applied to evaluate the impact of fishery credit on the household food expenditure of the sampled fish farmers. Contrary to existing literature suggesting that access to fisheries credit improves food security, our empirical findings present a different perspective. The Binary Logistic Regression (BLR) study identifiedtwo factors influencing the food purchasing capacity of fish farmers: the value of non-land assets and the proximity of NGOs' branch offices to the fish farmers' dwellings. To enhance the food security status of underprivileged fish farming communities, it is recommended to focus on transferring assets and establishing NGO offices in close proximity to villages. These measures can significantly contribute to improving the food expenditure capacity of these communities.Item Cyber Security and Approaches of Institutions: A study on private institutions of Banani and Dhanmondi Thana area, Dhaka(Journal of Computer Science and Technology Studies (JCSTS), 2019-12-22) Matin, Shaira; Islam, MonwarulCyber security is considered as business issue more than a technical issue. The term widely used in Bangladesh since last decade. Dealing with information made our life resourceful, and risky at the same time. Cyber security and private institutions keep a silent but significant relation around Bangladesh. Corporate offices, public and private organizations have dealing with private cyber institutions to develop, design and monitor the respective websites. This paper has conducted study on those private institutions of Dhanmondi and Banani Thana administrative areas. The study found the diversity of working area of private institutions and limited resources to continue the activity. International collaboration and support from government can increase the strength of private cyber institutions and consider their performance as the potential resource for the cyber world.Item Self-employment: Prospects and Challenges(UITS Journal, 2015-12) Shabnam, Sharmin; Matin, Shaira; Islam, TazulThe unemployment problem in Bangladesh is getting more complicated. Around one-sixth of the total population is unemployed, and 1.8 million youths enter into the job market every year. In this backdrop, Bangladesh will have to create 2.1 million jobs every year which is a daunting task for the Government. under these circumstances, self-employment is considered to be the quickest and easiest way to create employment. This article explores the role of self- employment in economic development. It compares the data on the socio-economic background of the non-farm self-employed in various places of Dhaka city. It also gives an insight into the challenges of self-employment, and training and the support required by the self- employed. The findings are important for policy implications to overcome the challenges "by providing possible support to the serf-employed so that more people are encouraged to create their own jobs rather than waiting for someone else to give them a wage employment.Item The Socio-Economic Condition of the Construction Workers of Dhaka City: An Empirical Study(American International University-Bangladesh, 2018-11) Biswas, Buddha Dev; Islam, Md. JahirulThis paper explores the socio-economic condition of the construction workers from Azimpur area in Dhaka city. This study is quantitative in nature. A theoretical framework has been made in this study. Push & Pull Factors and Neoclassical Economic Theory have great relations with the existing research. The study shows that all construction workers are migrants who have migrated from the rural areas to Dhaka city to get jobs. They migrated to Dhaka city because of Push & Pull factors. Though Bangladesh is a densely populated country, the capital is not sufficient for incorporating the rural people in job avenues. Even though some people earn in rural areas, it is insufficient for them. All of these situations have forced the rural people to migrate to Dhaka. Their uneducated status forces them to choose the occupation of daily laborers—regardless of being male and female. The female laborers usually get fewer wages than the male laborers. Besides, both the male and the female laborers are cheated by the employers or the middlemen. The laborers have no fixed wage. They fix it by bargaining with the employers. This study explores the socio-economic situation of this community who work as construction workers through an in-depth investigation.Item The Grameen Bank in Enhancing Efficiency/ Skills of its Clients: A Reluctant Partnership(UITS Journal, 2014-06) Matin, ShairaThe argument for providing microfinancial services in this article is not the conventional microcredit argument that supply-driven microcredit services alone to poor women puts them on a conveyer belt that takes them over the poverty line. Rather, the argument is more grounded in the reality of being poor and those demand-responsive non-financial services especially skill/efficiency enhancing efforts alongside the high quality microfinancial services can help the poor to help themselves overcome their problems. Taking the Grameen Bank (GB) of Bangladesh as a case study, this article explores the provision of client-responsive microfinancial product and skill/efficiency enhancing services and the principles that could be followed by the GB in order to achieve the goal of significant poverty alleviation for rural poor women in Bangladesh.Item Women in Informal Labor market: Bargaining Power Still Hangs in Balance(The AIUB Journal of Business and Economics(AJBE), 2014-08) Zaman, Farhana; Matin, ShairaInformal labor sector becomes a pivotal part of Bangladesh economy in term of its contribution to total employment. Due to the overpopulation the formal sector has failed to accommodate a bulging labor force of our country. Therefore the informal sector appears to be the major source of employment especially for women in urban areas as the formal sector is dominated by male. But unfortunately the increased rate of participation of women in this sector is characterized by low and irregular income thus ineffective to ensure women’s greater bargaining power at home. Drawing on two surveys conducted in 1998 and 2013, this paper aims to assess the difference between the living standard of women workers in the past and at present. The study found no significant positive change in their living conditions. Based on both quantitative and qualitative study, this paper also explores the decision making power of women over the fertility issues. The study found that these women tend to have more number of children due to the strong influence of their male counterparts. The study further suggests that the government should immediately address the issue by forming new laws and policies for the urban informal women workers to incorporate/ integrate them with the mainstream labor market and thereby pave the way towards women empowerment.Item Major Challenges of Public Administration in Bangladesh: Few Observations and Suggestions(Scientific Publishing Institute, 2018) Biswas, Buddha Dev, Rahman, Md. MizanurThis article tries to address some of the challenges of public administration in Bangladesh. By ensuring effective implementation of some in-built mechanism of bureaucracy and making provision of devolution type decentralization system, independent judiciary, ombudsman, ensuring effective role of participatory management, parliamentary committees, political pluralism, vibrant civil society, responsible media etc. bureaucracy can be made accountable. Openness and free flow of information regarding government policies, programs and projects can help in ensuring transparency. Powerful and effective anti-corruption commission by which misappropriation, defalcation of public fund or any kind of corrupt practices can be treated quickly with necessary punitive actions, measures for checking political corruption in public-sector can reduce corruption in public administration. Effective personnel management i.e. recruitment, training, promotion, transfer policy, result oriented performance evaluation system, rationalization of pay structure, modernization of office equipment, standardization of services, fruitful monitoring system, system of reward and punishment, modern budgetary and tax system, capacity building of personnel of legislative, judicial and executive branches etc. can help in overcoming the hurdles and challenges of public administration in Bangladesh.Item Extrinsic and intrinsic determinants of entrepreneurial growth of Bangladesh: an empirical examination(RMUTT Global Business and Economics Review, 2009-03) Khan, Jahangir H., Biswas, Buddha Dev, Ahmed NeazEntrepreneurial growth is predicted to be related to micro variables or intrinsic determinants (motivations) and macro variables or extrinsic determinants (environmental infrastructure elements) but in a differential way. Infrastructure variables are tested as moderators in the motivation-growth relationship. Motivations are further categorized into intrinsic pull and extrinsic push factors. A rich sample of 395 recently- minted entrepreneurs and concerned institutions of Bangladesh were surveyed. Results essentially confirmed the predictions, with motivations playing a larger role than anticipated. Implications were discussed for policymakers charged with the responsibilities of economic development through entrepreneurship.Item Exploring EFL Teachers' Perception on Readiness to Use Smartphones for Teaching Oral English Communication Skills at Tertiary Level(Mexican Association of Teachers of English, 2021-11-30) Ibna Seraj, Prodhan Mahbub; Habil, Hadina; Hasan, Md. Kamrul; Sharmin, FatemaThis study aims to examine the EFL teachers’ perception of their readiness to use different smartphone applications for teaching oral skills at the tertiary level in Bangladesh and compares this to the relevant demographic factors. To reach these objectives, a mixed method research design was implemented. A survey questionnaire was answered by 46 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers from twelve different universities in Bangladesh and a semi- structured interview was conducted with five of these teachers. The results showed that these EFL teachers had a high degree of readiness to use smartphones for teaching oral skills. The teachers agreed that smartphones could help them to deal with the problems like a large class size, a lack of authentic materials, learners' inactiveness, as well as a lack of an oral practice environment inside and outside the classroom. Moreover, there was no statistically significant relationship between the EFL teachers' demographics and their readiness to use a smartphone. The results suggest that smartphone applications have certain potentials/benefits for the university teachers, and that a smartphone- based teaching method for developing EFL learners’ oral skills should be promoted in an EFL context like Bangladesh.