Our mission is to make positive changes in the society, provide evidence based solution, and promoting social well-being. We work closely with universities and research organizations across the globe to produce evidence based results that could lead to important policy implication in Bangladesh.
We conduct development research on issues related to gender, education, health, poverty, agriculture, food security, climate change and disaster in Bangladesh.
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Read moreEducational institutions of the country are closed since 18 March 2020 to contract the spread of coronavirus, therefore, many institutes adopted online education measures to help address their educational challenges. However, online education is quite limited at the university level. Though some schools and colleges from the urban areas are
Lead Researcher(s): Michael Vlassopoulos (University of Southampton, UK, and IZA), Abu Siddique (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Tabassum Rahman (University of Newcastle, Australia), Debayan Pakrashi (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India), Asad Islam (Monash University, Australia) and Firoz Ahmed (Khulna University, Bangladesh) The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is confronting people
Collaboration with Technical University of Munich in Germany and Monash University in Australia The global pandemic of COVID-19 has paralysed the globe over the last few months. The lockdown and social distancing have resulted in business closure and disruption to informal economic activities bringing the livelihood of millions of people,
Workshop on “The Early Childhood Intervention and parental involvement in Bangladesh”Will be held on 02 December 2019 at 9:30 am in the Auditorium of Hotel Castle Salam, Khulna.
We conduct a randomized field experiment to investigate the benefits of an intensive chess training program undertaken by primary school students in a developing country context. We examine the effects on academic outcomes, and a number of non-cognitive outcomes: risk preferences, patience, creativity and attention/focus. Our main finding is that
Lead Researcher(s):Kazi Iqbal (BIDS),Asad Islam (Monash University) Improving financial literacy of the small investors is central to the development of a viable financial sector. In this study, we train investors on capital market and examine how such training change the trading behavior of the investors. We collaborate with seven brokerage
Wang-Sheng Lee and Aaron Nicholas (Deakin University) This project involves a randomized experiment of primary school students in Bangladesh using chess instruction as an intervention. We assess the effect of chess lessons on both creativity and academic achievement. Creativity is increasingly recognised as a core component of economic development and
We conduct a randomized field experiment involving regularly scheduled face-to-facemeetings between teachers and parents over a period of two academic years. At eachof these meetings, the teacher provided the parents with a report card and discussedthe child’s academic progress. We find that the overall test scores of the students in
Lead Researcher(s):KRussell Smyth, (Monash Monash),Vy Nguyen (Monash Monash) It has been argued that standardized financial training is too complex and rigid to help less educated individuals improve their financial decisions. Existing literature suggests a weak, if not zero, impact of standard financial education on improving financial outcomes. We propose a
Lead Researcher(s): Asad Islam (Monash University) Globally malnutrition and diseases relating poor hygiene cause a large share of death of children under 5 years and are also considered as major development impediments. The burden is larger in low and middle income countries where they often coexist. Poor socioeconomic status contributes to
