American International University-Bangladesh [AIUB]
American International University-Bangladesh [AIUB]
Recent steps of the government to allow environment friendly products and transports are creating awareness among the ordinary citizens of Bangladesh. Banning the two-stroke autos and old transports will eventually encourage investment and demand for new automobiles. To catch up this growing market, auto-manufacturers have to develop distribution channels strategies to promote and capture Automobiles market shares. The Delphi technique is a management tool commonly used to ask the experts about their opinions in estimating future demands and their implications. The application of this tool is considered to develop different types of Automobile distribution channels in Bangladesh. The expert opinions on Auto industry in Bangladesh are sought and found that horizontal and vertical and even hybrid distribution channels can be suitable in Bangladeshi environment. Although direct selling trend is evident using Internet facilities in other business, it is recommended that act of middleman is necessary in developing brand image and satisfying customer service needs. The research reveals that management techniques can be successfully implemented to solve and innovate marketing problems too.
University of Luton, UK
University of Luton, UK
Population and socio-economic development are interrelated. Changes in population size and structure affect various economic and social factors relating to income, education, health and employment. Conversely, demographic factors such as fertility, mortality and migration are affected by changes in socio-economic conditions. The balance with economic growth is crucial and of concern to policy makers since population growth can pose significant and interacting risks to human well-being. Lower rates of population growth that presumably would contribute significantly to improving people's lives, do not by any means provide the only reason to support the population programme. Family planning, preventive and curative health services, expected education for girls and increased economic opportunities for women also directly improve the lives of women and families. The major objective of this paper examines the prospect for stabilization of the Bangladesh population under alternative demographic scenarios. Due to a large base of young age population future growth potential in Bangladesh is indeed very high. Because of high fertility in the past, Bangladesh will continue to experience substantial population growth as these young people entered their child bearing years. This built in population momentum means that, even if fertility fell immediately to the replacement level about half of the population growth could still take place in the future. In order to stabilize Bangladesh's population while maintaining low death rates, births will need to average about two children per woman. Population momentum can be eased significantly by policy interventions that encourage women to delay child bearing, as this stretches out the time between generations.
American International University-Bangladesh [AIUB]
Population and socio-economic development are interrelated. Changes in population size and structure affect various economic and social factors relating to income, education, health and employment. Conversely, demographic factors such as fertility, mortality and migration are affected by changes in socio-economic conditions. The balance with economic growth is crucial and of concern to policy makers since population growth can pose significant and interacting risks to human well-being. Lower rates of population growth that presumably would contribute significantly to improving people's lives, do not by any means provide the only reason to support the population programme. Family planning, preventive and curative health services, expected education for girls and increased economic opportunities for women also directly improve the lives of women and families. The major objective of this paper examines the prospect for stabilization of the Bangladesh population under alternative demographic scenarios. Due to a large base of young age population future growth potential in Bangladesh is indeed very high. Because of high fertility in the past, Bangladesh will continue to experience substantial population growth as these young people entered their child bearing years. This built in population momentum means that, even if fertility fell immediately to the replacement level about half of the population growth could still take place in the future. In order to stabilize Bangladesh's population while maintaining low death rates, births will need to average about two children per woman. Population momentum can be eased significantly by policy interventions that encourage women to delay child bearing, as this stretches out the time between generations.
American International University-Bangladesh [AIUB]
One of the components of population analysis is the study of differential fertility among different groups of mothers classified by child mortality level, regional variation and / or socioeconomic status. Among different socioeconomic group of mothers, the levels of fertility or the levels of child mortality are different. The homogeneity of differentials in fertility levels or in child mortality levels can be investigated using the technique of combined analysis of groups of experiments under both homogeneous and heterogeneous conditions. In the present paper, homogeneity of fertility levels by child mortality levels and homogeneity of child mortality levels by number of ever born children recorded from North–Eastern Libya are investigated. The data show that child mortality levels do not vary due to the variation in the number of ever born children of mothers. The level of occupation of mothers changes with the change in their level of education. The study of level of fertility variation according to changes in level of occupation nested within the levels of education is of interest. Again, fertility variation is influenced by duration of marriage, level of education of husband, duration of breastfeeding period etc. Thus, fertility variation should be studied after eliminating the impacts of the above said variables. This can be done using the technique of covariance analysis in nested classification. The method of analysis is explained with real world data.
American International University – Bangladesh [AIUB]
University of Dhaka
The ‘job mobility’ factor has got remarkable importance in the traditional theory of human capital. This study is being undertaken to develop and validate the conceptual and operational framework of human capital theory that focuses on the ‘mobility’ factor of the human resources in the labor market. This study brings the human resource trainers/developers, commonly known as teachers or instructors, in the private sector university education in Bangladesh under consideration. This study takes keen interest in this tertiary sector of our economy due to the recent years’ performance of the private universities in creating lucrative opportunities in the job market of Bangladesh. Since a huge number of private universities are coming into operation in very recent years, some factors [internal as well as external] may induce the faculty members to quit the present job and switch to others. This study, therefore, attempts to find out the factors that the private university authority may take care of while structuring the job facilities for their academic employees. For choosing the factors this study uses the human mobility theories available in the economic literature. Moreover, the available empirical studies in the developed country context are also utilized for accuracy of the study.
American International University – Bangladesh [AIUB]
American International University – Bangladesh [AIUB]
Almost all socio-economic groups both in urban and rural areas in Bangladesh experience housing problem. In a developing country like Bangladesh with a low level of industrialization but a very high growth rate of urban as well as total population, housing is perceived as a very acute national problem. Due to the lack of proper government policy and shortage of fund accommodation is becoming a major problem in the country especially in the large cities. Every year an insignificant percentage of the development budget of the country is allocated to housing sector and the allotted fund is invested to construct flats for government officials who make up 4% of the manpower of the country. Individuals with their own resources are building about 95% of total residential buildings and the rest is done through borrowing from formal or informal market.
American International University - Bangladesh [AIUB]
The students of business should acquire skills of effective communication. For this, they should have a good command of English grammar. So teaching learning of English grammar is a must for business students. Grammar teaching is an age-old practice. However, from time to time there were strong reactions against grammar. As a result, approaches like Natural Method, Direct Method, Audio-lingual Method, Communicative Method and many other methods of different names dominated the language-teaching scenario time and again as a substitute for the grammar teaching. Anti- grammar trend reached an extreme point in mid seventies and eighties when Communicative language teaching was getting firm root in the scene. At that time the teaching – learning of grammar was almost totally neglected in America, England and many other parts of the world. But soon it was realized that communicative competence alone is not sufficient enough to acquire a mastery over a language without the linguistic competence e.g. without acquiring the grammatical rules of the target language. So, there again reappeared the traditional grammar teaching either explicitly or implicitly in the scene. In the present study, an effort has been made to examine the circumstances under which people lost interest in the study of grammar. In this connection, another effort is made here to show how essential it is to teach English grammar to our young boys and girls of Bangladesh were English is hardly used communicatively.
Assistant Professor of Economics
American International University - Bangladesh [AIUB]
American International University - Bangladesh [AIUB]
The paper discusses the economic reforms carried out in India and Bangladesh towards liberalization of trade and hence enhancement of bilateral trade cooperation between these two countries. It compares the sequence of economic reforms carried out in India and Bangladesh with the theoretical "proper" sequencing of economic reforms and examines the differences in the maturity of frameworks in these two countries. On the basis of these discussions, the papers attempts to find if further liberalization can promote bilateral trade cooperation between India and Bangladesh, and to what further extent and in what directions further liberalization of trade policy is required to achieve bilateral trade cooperation.
