Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, Ummul Hasanath Ruthbah, Atonu Rabbani, Muhammad G. Sarwar, Salim Hossain The study considers whether tuition services help reduce dropout rates? Based on the findings it manages to reduce the rate however depends on which grade the student is studying.
Team leader: A.K. Enamul Haque Sponsored by: Global Development Network (GDN)
Organized jointly by ERG and SANDEE Period: 23 – 26 September 2011. Workshop Coordinator: A.K. Enamul Haque Short Description: The aim of this workshop was to build research capacity in the area of environment and resource economics. This workshop is basically for those who wanted to improve in the field of environmental and natural resource economics and wishing to enhance proposal writing techniques. The faculty for the workshop included International...
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Team leader: Atonu Rabbani Sponsored by: London School of Economics and Political Science
Organized jointly by ERG and SANDEE Period: 2 – 6 March, 2011. Workshop Coordinator: Mr. Ziaul Haider, Research Fellow, ERG and Professor, KU Short Description: The main objective of the study was to develop proposal writing skills of young and upcoming researchers of environmental economics and other related branches of knowledge; to introduce key current policy concerns and research themes of environmental economics; to encourage original research aimed at strengthening...
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Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, Biva Arani Mallik, Sara Zabeen,Galib Ahsan Sponsored by: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) The objective of the study was to describe the effects of the food price surge of 2007-08 on the poor and vulnerable in rural and urban Bangladesh, to assess the responses to the effects, and, suggest ways of strengthening social protection/safety net system in Bangladesh for mitigating the risks of food crisis and improving...
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