Community Participation in Health Program and Service Delivery: Case Studies on Rural and Urban Health Complex

Corresponding Author : Dr Mohammad Shafiqul Islam (Shafiq.pad@gmail.com)

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Bangladesh has made a remarkable progress in quantitative health care indicators in last decade; however, quality of health service delivery is low and unsatisfactory for poor accountability and limited community participation. This study aims at examining the reasons of inadequate community participation and its influence on the quality of health care delivery of rural and urban health service organizations. For this, in-depth interview from 68 participants of health professionals, national respondents, elected officials, local informants, and four focus…

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Shakespeare’s Lopsided Mediation between Christian and Jewish Voices in be Merchant of Venice

Corresponding Author : Panna Majumder (majumderpanna1981@gmail.com)

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Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (written between 1596 and 1598) offers us an opportunity to study mediation between the Christian voice and the Jewish voice. Through a theatrical intervention Shakespeare unmasks the uneasy coexistence of the dominant Christian and the mute Jewish communities in Venice charting out polarities on racial, theological, and economic fronts. In a sixteenth century Christian socio-cultural milieu, these aforesaid fronts are found to be integrative and collaborative in strategizing moves against the…

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Waiting for the Barbarians as a Bildungsroman

Corresponding Author : Dr. Muhammad Alamgir Toimoor (mtoimoor@gamail.com)

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J. M. Coetzee, in his Waiting for the Barbarians, seems to have described in detailed the modus operandi of an imaginary empire. In order to survive, the empire capitalizes on violence and intimidation - two prongs of a fork with what the empire feeds upon not only on its natives but also on its own subjects. At the outset of the novel, the protagonist, a magistrate at a distant outpost of the empire, appears to be a loyal and self-righteous…

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Determinants of Dividend Payment of Non-Bank Financial Institutionsin Bangladesh

Corresponding Author : Chandon Kumar Pal (paulchandan54@yahoo.com)

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Dividend is the most debated issue in corporate finance. The study mainly focuses on dividend payment rate determinants of theNon- Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) of Bangladesh that are controlled by Bangladesh Bank and listed in Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). The sample is considered for those firms that publish their annual reports and also declared dividend to the shareholdersduring 2010-2017. The aim of this paper…

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