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This study evaluates farmers’ insights into the environmental impacts of chemical fertilizers and the overdose practice in north-western Bangladesh. According to the farmers the impacts of chemical fertilizers are mostly on the crop health and farm ecology. In the study area 87 per cent of the farmers apply excess chemical fertilizers that is 2.44 times higher than the recommended dose. When a higher level of adverse environmental impacts on Read More

How long do impacts of the graduation-based social protection approach last after support ends? What factors affect the impacts’ longevity? What do these factors mean for those seeking to exit poverty sustainably? This brief explores such questions by revisiting women who participated in a UNDP social protection initiative in one of Bangladesh’s most climate-vulnerable districts between 2017 and 2019. Four years on the brief unpacks how the wo Read More

How can a rapidly growing country such as Bangladesh overcome the barriers to realizing Sustainable Development Goal 7? The present study includes an analysis of the barriers to achieving 24x7 access to modern energy and the required improvements to make energy more efficient to overcome them in Bangladesh. Interpretive structural modeling (ISM) is applied to identify the interactions among the barriers as laid out in context-relevant scientifi Read More

The aim of the present paper is to identify the determinants of consumer behaviour of mobile financial services (MFS) in Bangladesh. Data used in the study were collected through an online survey. A total of 1460 users of MFS in Bangladesh participated in the survey during 2021. The findings of the study show that perceived usefulness has the strongest impact on customer satisfaction followed by perceived safety and perceived ease of use. Customer sa Read More

Prepared in the context of the process of Bangladesh’s graduation from LDC status this publication contains insights into the particular vulnerabilities or fragilities of the country and the implications of these disadvantages. The profile helps national authorities understand the critical relationship between the need for resilience-building action and LDC status as a basis for eligibility for special support to this action. It is organized around four pillars: (i) a s Read More

This paper studies foreign direct investment spillovers on the gender-related labour market practice of domestic firms based on a unique firm-to-firm data set of Bangladesh’s textiles and garment sectors. The paper looks at the female employment of domestic firms that are directly and indirectly related to foreign- owned firms through supply chain linkages. These domestic firms are either the local suppliers or customers of foreign-owned firms or th Read More

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The eTrade for all Initiative launched at the fourteenth Ministerial Conference of UNCTAD in July 2016 is a practical example of how to harness the digital economy in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development notably Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 5 8 9 and 17. The initiative seeks to raise awareness enhance synergies and increase the scale of existing and new efforts by the development community to strengthen the ability of Read More