http://ar.cou.ac.bd:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/44 2026-05-28T18:57:23Z http://ar.cou.ac.bd:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/56 Determinants of age at first marriage in Bangladesh-Patterns and Differentials J.M.Adeeb Salman, Chowdhury; Akter, Taslima; Rana, Md. Sohel; Fahman, Mahfujur This paper focuses on the examining the patterns of age at first marriage and also identify the socio-economic, demographic and cultural factors influencing marriage age in Bangladesh. This study utilizes survey data of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS 2011). Like other developing countries early marriage is a major determinants of the rates of fertility. The independents test of chi-square is used to study the effect of selected background characteristics of age at first marriage in Bangladesh. The cross tabulation has been used to estimate the factors affected the use of any method and age at first marriage in Bangladesh. The factors Respondents education, Types of place of residence, Partners education, Religion, Region, Partners occupation, socio-economic status, Respondent currently working have significantly effects on age at first marriage in Bangladesh. Bivariate analysis and Logistic regression are used to explain these objectives. The study shows those respondents who have no education, marriage at early age and at least secondary education to married at later age. Similar pattern marriage at early age has been seen in case of illiterate and service holders husbands. Form this analysis we can say that maximum respondents who are not currently working married before or at median age 15 years. The author believes that this study nay be useful for policy makers and other researchers doing research in the patterns age at first marriage and its differentials in Bangladesh. 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z http://ar.cou.ac.bd:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/54 Regional Integration and Trade of India and Bangladesh with ASEAN Countries: De, Utpal Kumar Globalization, relaxation of trade barriers with free movement of goods and services is considered to accelerate world trade and speed up the growth process. It is also expected to improve efficiency of resource use, reduce inequality, unemployment, imbibe completion and thereby optimise human welfare. However, severalc ountries despite adopting globalization are lagging behind for the lacko f competitiveness and inefficient management of activities, technological backwardness and paucity of capital. Thus an attempt is made towards building sub-regional cooperation in asia for having ompetitive strength at regional level. Indias look east policy and engagement with its eastern neighbours including Bangladesh and ASEAN is an effort to form regional trade bloc to foster development.This paper offers an interactive analysis of progress of trade of india and Bangladesh with ASEAN and shows how both the countries could integrate with these nations and utilise the opportunities created since 2001.dendrograms reveal that india and Bangladesh have close ties in economic and social fields amongs Asian countries after 1991.with much effort towards integration with ASEAN after 2000,Indias export and import have increased significantly, but the trade gap has been windend. In case of Bangladesh,export to ASEAN has remained at a very low level,though one-fifth of its import still come from these countries. Thus trade gap of Bangladesh with ASEAN is widening at a faster pace than that of India. However,Bangladesh has been able to reduce the gap with India in overall export and import per capita. but there is ample scope for both these nations to expand trade through enhanced exports of goods demanded by these countries. 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z http://ar.cou.ac.bd:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/50 A Study on the Pedagogical Barriers of Tertiary Level Education in Bangladesh Begum, Sumayya; Amzad Hossain Sarker, Mohammad The prime objective of the research was to identify and investigate the impact of various pedagogicol barriers on effective tertiary level education. Other objectives were to find out the pedagogical barriers in tertiary level education and to portrait current pedagogical practices of higher studies institutions like public and private universities. For achieving the above objectives primary data were collected through verified structured questionnaire. A total number of 70 respondents have chosen as sample by convenience sampling technique. Sample respondents were taken from five public universities and two private universities. Data were analyzed by using SPSS-16 version by adopting the statistical techniques, correlation and multiple regression analysis. The findings of the study revealed that except the SPA (social and psychological attachment) all of the independent variables have on significant effect on tertiary level education system in Bangladesh. Therefore, ministry of education, university grants commission and university authorities should take necessary steps to overcome the effect of these barriers to develop effective tertiary level education system. Thus, this study recommended the required actions for addressing and resolving those barriers effectively for ensuring quality education in the terliary level. 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z http://ar.cou.ac.bd:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/48 Economic Condition of Farmers: Parvin, Resheda Bangladesh has gained “Middle income country” status very recently but this status has made a demand to roll behind the economic status of farmers and to rationalize their under-developed condition with respect to their major economic sources. And the prime inquiry of this paper lies exactly here. Earlier scholarly works this regarding these issues are mainly focused on market mechanism in agricultural sector or wage determination determinants but as whole the farmers economic condition with respect to their income sources is missing till now and this research gap is the focus standpoint of this paper. To understand this a binary regression would be rub where headcount poverty status is considered as binary variable where zero denotes living under the poverty status. Poverty is a binary variable would be regressed toward the sources of income and they are the agricultural wage, nonagricultural wage, crop income, livestock and poultry and income from non-agricultural income. The regression coefficient would demonstrate as the level of influence determined by each dependent variable. The regression coefficient would demonstrates the level of determination by each dependent variable. From this collected data set, poverty status is formulated by using headcount poverty method bases on total income. And whose income is not enough to be equal to minimum income as not to be poor as assigned as zero and that denotes that households is poor. And alternative case is assigned by one that is assigned as not to be poor. The minimum total income is per capital income multiplied by average member which is 4.5 for a year in a household considering poverty definition of 2008. 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z