| Education: Some thoughts on education in this election year [In Bangla] |
| Samir R Nath |
| Vol - 10 Issue - 84 January - 2008 |
| Prothom Alo |
| How can we ensure that election activities create minimal disturbances to education provision? |
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| Who is to blame for road accidents? |
| M Abdul Alim |
| Vol - 5 Issue - 799 August - 2006 |
| The Daily Star |
| Around one million fatalities are caused by road accidents each year, of which the vast majority is in the developing countries. The rate of road accidents is increasing in number, especially when compared with highly motorized countries. Road safety problems represent a very significant domestic, social, and economic problem in developing countries.... |
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| Education for small ethnic communities |
| Md. Mahbub Kabir |
| August - 2006 |
| Financial Express |
| At first glance, Bangladesh seems to be a linguistically homogenous society, however, about 2.0 per cent of the population (3.0 million) belong to ethnically diverse small communities who use their own languages in day to day life. Although this may seem like a small percentage of the total population, their needs and rights deserve equal attention under the premise of development for all... |
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| Towards a pro-poor health system in Bangladesh |
| Syed Masud Ahmed |
| Vol - 5 Issue - 746 July - 2006 |
| The Daily Star |
| Studies have shown that, of all the risks that poor households are facing, health risks probably pose the greatest threat to their lives and livelihoods. Unfortunately, health systems are frequently ineffective in reaching the poor.... |
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| Mainstreaming ageing in health systems |
| Syed Masud Ahmed |
| Vol - 5 Issue - 534 November - 2005 |
| The Daily Star |
| In the history of Bangladesh, she has faced a daunting challenge of improving the health of its people with limited resources available and made remarkable progress. In the last three decades, life expectancy has increased by 15 years, the total fertility rate (TFR) has declined by more than half and the infant mortality rate (IMR) has fallen by almost half. The current demographic situation in Bangladesh is characterised by gradual ageing of the population, thanks to the successes of targeted public health interventions (such as family planning, EPI, Oral rehydration therapy etc.) and modest economic growth since independence.... |
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| Rickets: An emerging public health problem |
| M Showkat Gani, Fazlul Karim |
| Vol - 5 Issue - 527 November - 2005 |
| The Daily Star |
| Rickets is a crippling disease of growing children. The symptoms of rickets are emerged with the growth of children. Rickets can develop as early as 6 months of age. Vitamin D deficiency is the primary cause of the disease. The typical negative impacts of the disease are retarded physical growth and skeletal deformities due to a disorder in bone calcification.... |
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| A response to HIV/AIDS |
| Hashima-e-Nasreen |
| Vol - 5 Issue - 481 October - 2005 |
| The Daily Star |
| AIDS posing a challenge to the mankind already claimed the lives of more than 23 million, killing about 3 million people every year. According to WHO report 2002, an estimated 42 million people throughout the world currently living with HIV. Another 70 million men, women and children may die of AIDS in next 20 years and 25 million children will be orphan by 2010.... |
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| Arsenic in drinking water of Bangladesh: Experiences of BRAC |
| M Jakariya |
| Vol - 1589 June - 2005 |
| The Financial Express |
| The arsenic problem in Bangladesh has been described as the largest mass poisoning in history. Chronic ingestion of inorganic arsenic causes characteristic skin lesions as observed in populations in Bangladesh and elsewhere.... |
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| BRAC research resources ? just a mouse-click away! |
| Mehnaz Rabbani, Nasheeba Selim |
| Vol - 40 Issue - 37 April - 2005 |
| The Weekly Holiday |
| Looking for reports on the BRAC Matlab projects, BRAC monographs, working papers on the extreme poor or BRAC publications? Or perhaps you are looking for BRAC's in-house research done on current programmes. All the information you need is now at your fingertips with the launching of www.bracresearch.org, BRAC Research and Evaluation Division's new website.... |
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| Connecting people through a single network: the BRAC initiative |
| Khadija Rehma, Tariq Omar Ali |
| Vol - 40 Issue - 37 April - 2005 |
| The Weekly Holiday |
| Poor rural producers in small villages often find themselves trapped in a story that is similar in the context of developing countries. With the proliferation of Information Communications Technology (ICT), the world races ahead, buzzing with daily transactions that take place in fractions of seconds, banks, businesses, schools and hospitals, all functioning at the touch of the fingertip.... |
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