Bangladesh has experienced a brilliant growth in private educational sector since the early 1990s. The development has resulted mainly through the emergence of a large number of universities in the private sector where quality remains a great concern. An exploratory survey was conducted to analyze the consumers' (students) evaluation of private higher education sectors in Bangladesh with particular reference to the quality as well as the cost of education. The sample was taken on a random basis from ten private universities in Dhaka metropolitan area, the capital city of Bangladesh. The...

This book investigates the theoretical and practical impacts of the government procurement policy on rice producer price in Bangladesh agriculture. The policy, basically, aims at procuring a targeted amount of rice and wheat at predetermined prices in order to protect the producers' income by stabilizing food prices and to provide foods to specified target-groups of consumers in course of normal time as well as in emergency period. The study conducted econometric analyses with twenty five years data collected from various government and private sources. The empirical finding of the study...

In this book, we analyze the effects of additive outliers and inliers on the long memory fractional parameter. Based on Monte-Carlo simulations, two different data sets have been generated for simulation. First set generates additive outliers and second set generates additive inliers. The results indicate that additive outliers and inliers affect the bias and MSE of the estimated fractional parameter. Particularly, the size of the additive outliers, the probability of occurrence of additive outliers and a drift parameter in data generating process appear to have important effects on the...

Civilizational niche is wantonly curvilinear. Irrespective of this nature of trend with drift, history encountered countless enterprises that sometimes recall its long memory of resurgence, revivalism or reverberate. Persian or Iranian civilization is to name as such as an example. The history of Persia is not like the history of Europe or North America. Yet, Iran is one of the few Third World states that do not owe their present geographical configuration to European colonialism. In fact, this is just like a melting pot where myriads of cultural concoctions render the superb pure Persian...

Following the Industrial Revolution in Europe and later the establishment of colony in India in 1757, the United Kingdom (UK) witnessed a sharp rising in economic growth which made it one of the most prosperous nations of the West. During their colonial age in India and in other parts of the globe, the British people explored the entire colonized lands and funneled all the valuable resources to their country of origin, the UK. They continued this plundering and destroying the colonized countries to the full scale until the mid-twentieth century. As for example of looting the colonial states,...

The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However haltingly and selectively, that trend towards extra-systemic means of managing ethnic and national conflict is still discernible, motivated as it was in the 1990s by the inability of in-house accommodation methods to resolve ethno-political conflicts peacefully and the tendency of such conflicts to...

No matter what it means by teaching as a profession or as an occupation like ordinary workers, it goes beyond those horizons. Ideally, a teacher is a mentor who enlightens to ignite an open and limitless potentiality of human life. This potentiality is open-ended, because life is not like a puzzle that must be constructed in one way, but like a lego that is open for unlimited set of imaginative constructions. In fact, life is a lego-game, full of smart moves and decisions. A teacher helps the students to choose the right decision from a myriad of choices confronting in their daily lives. So,...

In Formal and Informal Social Safety Nets, Ashraf analyses the role of social safety nets in a time when our global economy threatens our way of life, as entire cities such as Detroit are declared bankrupt.

In Formal and Informal Social Safety Nets, Ashraf analyses the role of social safety nets in a time when our global economy threatens our way of life, as entire cities such as Detroit are declared bankrupt.