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নজরুলের আত্মানুসন্ধান : প্রসঙ্গ ব্যথার দান
Corresponding Author : ড. মোঃ রিজাউল ইসলাম (rejaul-bng@sust.edu)
Abstract :
কাজী নজরুল ইসলামের (১৮৯৯-১৯৭৬) কবিখ্যাতির আড়ালে ঢাকা পড়ে আছে তাঁর অন্যান্য সম্ভাবনাময় সাহিত্যিকসত্তা। তিনি কবি ও গীতিকার হিসেবে সমধিক পরিচিতি লাভ করলেও গল্পের জগতে একেবারে আনকোরা নন। তাঁর গল্পে পরীক্ষা-নিরীক্ষা কম— এ কথা যেমন সত্য তেমনি সত্য গল্পের সংখ্যাস্বল্পতা। তবে আশার দিক হচ্ছে গল্পের উপজীব্যে এনেছেন উদ্দামতা-রোমাঞ্চ। যুদ্ধের সাজ-সজ্জা কিংবা জেল জুলুমের বর্ণনা ভেতো-ভীতু বাঙালি-জীবনে নতুন স্বাদের আনয়ন করেছে। বর্হিমুখীনতা তথা আন্তর্জাতিকচেতনা গল্পগুলোতে যোগ করেছে নতুনমাত্রা। এক্ষেত্রে ব্যক্তি নজরুলের বাঙালি পল্টনে যোগদান মাইলফলক হিসেবে ভ‚মিকা পালন করেছে। এছাড়া গল্পগুলোতে নজরুলের…
Practicing Black Art: Female Empowerment in The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
Corresponding Author : Touhida Sultana (touhida.syl@gmail.com)
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night is a Middle Eastern Harry Potter where humans oscillate between the actual world and the magical to subvert the physical laws to attain personal gains. While the male magicians are bent on accumulating massive power, wealth to control everyone around them, the female practitioners are inclined to find a comfort zone for themselves in the patriarchal world frequently liberating those who have fallen prey to necromantic metamorphoses. The tales have, through…
Does Mother’s Health-seeking Behaviour Influence Child’s Health? A Study in Sylhet, Bangladesh
Corresponding Author : Mohammad Mojammel Hussain Raihan (mohammadmojammel.rai@ucalgary.ca)
Abstract : This study assesses mothers' health-seeking behaviour for their children and how it relates to mothers' socioeconomic status and their children's health. A semi-structured survey questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data from mothers with one to two-year old children (n—175). Six case studies using a guided questionnaire were conducted to substantiate the survey findings. Children’s illnesses were classified using intensity scores based on the frequency of diseases. Results show that about 60% of the mothers were under 25 years old,…
Access to the Internet and Global Trade: Re- evaluating People’s Attitudes towards Globalization
Corresponding Author : Md Rafiqul Islam (mail.rafiq50@gmail.com)
Abstract : People’s attitude towards global trade is a vital discussion in the context of the recent insurgence of populism as a politico-cultural trend around the world. This article explores the roles and consequences of internet usage, one of the most significant means of information exchange and communication, in determining individuals’ mindsets concerning the idea of globalization. Analyzing a survey-based data set covering individuals across twenty-eight countries around the world, this article argues that, in addition to significant socio-economic determinants such as education,…
Exploring the Relationships between the Health and Sanitation Practices in an Urban Based Upazila, Bangladesh
Corresponding Author : Towfiqul Islam Khan (khan-gee@sust.edu)
Abstract : Health and sanitation are associated with each other whereas sanitation is a function of excreta management, wastewater management, solid waste management and drainage systems; where health means a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. This study attempts to discover the relationships between the health and sanitation practices in urban-based areas. The study was conducted on 200 respondents of Teghori-Kalagachi Mauza of Chuadanga Sadar Upazila, in the district of Chuadanga. Pearson’s Correlation analysis has been used to analyze primary and secondary data.…
Economics in Search of a Moral Philosophy (Keynote Paper)
Corresponding Author : Wahiduddin Mahmud (wahiduddin.mahmud@gmail.com)
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Moral philosophy as a discipline is not regarded as a strong point of academic economists. Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing; and it is widely believed that he was pointing towards economists. Carlyle held a similar dim view of economics as a discipline when he termed it as a dismal science. Economists, in their turn, feel wrongly accused, for they are usually not the cause of dismal…
The Determinants of Job Turnover in Bangladesh
Corresponding Author : Mohammad Abdul Munim Joarder (munim-eco@sust.edu)
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Seasonal Variation in Agricultural Wages: Evidence from Rice Sector in Bangladesh
Corresponding Author : M. Ismail Hossain (ismail.hossain@northsouth.edu)
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The paper examines the seasonal pattern and the determinants of variation in rice sector wage addressing the issues how supply of and demand for labour shape the nature of seasonality in rice sector. Using data pertaining to the rice producing households from three villages of Bangladesh, the study finds how rice producing households take part in labour market by engaging themselves either as supplier of labour or employer or both. In Boro season, the coefficient of excess demand variable…
Three Policy Puzzles with Sustainable Energy Technologies – A Discussion
Corresponding Author : A. K. Enamul Haque (akehaque@ewubd.edu)
Abstract :
Ethical considerations in the market has mostly been ignored in positive economic analysis. The basic argument is that market is a mechanism to facilitate ‘voluntary exchange’ and so under full information and no coercion or imperfection in the market the market equilibrium reflects a ‘win-win’ solution to the process of bargain. This theoretical underpinning has been upheld in most of the economic literature. However, economists have been also debating that despite being a win-win solution, markets often lead to…
To Ban or not to Ban the Child Labor: An Investigation from Urban Slums in Bangladesh
Corresponding Author : Syed Hasanuzzaman (shzaman-eco@sust.edu)
Abstract :
Too much emphasis on household income might have blurred the role of market incentives and household vulnerability in determining child labor that can provide important implications to the debate over child labor ban. Child labor ban may not be costless, especially, for households suffering extreme poverty. Again, motivations for market returns to child labor cannot be ignored. For the urban slum areas of Sylhet district our study reveals that household demand for child labor is not only generated by…