Lead researchers: Prof. Asad Islam, Monash University Partners: Monash University, Australia Timeline: June 2023 to December 2025 Status: Ongoing Method: Quantitative The overview of the project: Constraints on women’s economic opportunities impede their active contribution to economic development. Restrictive gender norms affect women’s access to employment by limiting avenues for employment or advancement and creating unpleasant or unsafe workplace […]
Lead researchers: Prof. Asad Islam, Monash University Assc prof Liang Choon Wang, Monash University Partners: World Bank Timeline: February 2023 to March 2024 Status: Ongoing Method: Quantitative The overview of the project: There are some recent studies that relied on using basic-feature phones to deliver interventions (e.g., Angrist et al., 2022; Hassan et al., 2021; and Vlassopoulos et […]
Lead Researchers: Prof. Asad Islam, Monash University, Australia Firoz Ahmed, Associate Professor, Khulna University, Bangladesh Tabassum Rahman, School of Public Health, University of Newcastle Partners: Laerdal Foundation Timeline: January 2022 to December 2023 Status: Ongoing Method: Quantitative Overview of the study: Despite remarkable improvement in maternal and child health over the last three decades, maternal mortality […]
Lead researchers: Prof. Asad Islam, Monash University Assc prof Liang Choon Wang, Monash University Hashibul Hassan, Jagannath University Partners: Monash University, Australia Timeline: September 2021 to December 2022 Status: Complete Method: Quantitative The overview of the project: Despite high primary school enrolment rates, the learning outcomes of students in Bangladesh are poor, especially in rural areas (Islam 2019). This […]
Lead researchers: Asad Islam, Monash University Hashibul Hassan, Monash University, Australia Abu Siddique, Technical University of Munich, Germany Liang Choon Wang, Monash University Partners: Monash University, Australia Timeline: February 2021 to August 2022 Status: Complete Method: Quantitative The overview of the project: Educational institutions of the country are closed since 18 March 2020 to contract […]
Lead researchers: Tabassum Rahman, University of Newcastle, Australia Firoz Ahmed, Khulna University, Bangladesh Debayan Pakrashi, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Abu Siddique, Technical University of Munich, Germany Asad Islam, Monash University, Australia Partners: Monash University, Australia Timeline: April 2020 to December 2021 Status: Complete Method: Quantitative The overview of the project: The COVID-19 outbreak […]