http://ar.cou.ac.bd:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/52 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