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Applied research on arsenic in Bangladesh 'Arsenic contamination in groundwater is a serious public health problem in Bangladesh and currently the majority of the World's patients suffering chronic arsenic poisoning are to be found here. The World Health Organization is playing its normative role to address arsenic-related health problems in Bangladesh and is providing technical assistance to the government in terms of capacity building, development of training materials, and research which has been well received and appreciated by the health sector.'

'This study examines the impact of small-scale old age allowance, initiated by the government of Bangladesh in 1998, on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of elderly persons. Beneficiaries have been increased from 0.5 million in 1998 to 1.6 million in 2006, and this is a cross-sectional study conducted in 10 of the 64 districts of Bangladesh. Specifically, the aim of the study is to examine the impact of old age allowance on health-related quality of life based on specific six dimensions: physical, psychological, social, spiritual, economic, environment.'

Institute of Microfinance in order to facilitate their future and current research initiatives and enable researchers outside the Institute to get a list of readily available literatures on topics related to microfinance, has taken initiatives to start an annotated bibliography series. InM hopes that the annotated bibliography would serve the purposes of dissemination of information to the professionals, researchers, international agencies and academics as well as helping in our capacity building. Articles includes on general aspects of microfinance and on issues like microfinance borrowers, poverty, savings mobilization, loan recovery and repayment, employment, women empowerment, microfinance innovations, sustainability, competition etc. It is a unique effort to reach general readers with the theories and practices involved in microfinance of Bangladesh in a simplistic and comprehensive manner. Full paper in PDF format (624kb); Number of pages: 108p; Source: InM.

Welfare impacts of rural electrification : a case study from Bangladesh

The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the estimation of the cost of illness (COI) related to maternal- newborn ill-health (MNIH). The methodology used for the review includes a systematic search on electronic databases for published literature and manual searches for the identification of grey (unpublished) literature.The published study estimates most of the cost components associated with a particular complication of MNIH - emergency obstetric care (EmOC) - and reports a total average cost per user of EmOC in the range of US$ 177-369 in Bangladesh. The unpublished studies based on the REDUCE model illustrate the MNIH issue more directly and elaborately; however, they estimate merely the productivity cost for four African countries. The model estimates a huge amount of productivity losses associated with MNIH: an annual total of about US$ 95 million for Ethiopia and about US$ 85 million for Uganda.

'During every dry season from (March to June) Dhaka City dwellers suffer from an acute water crisis. In many parts of the city people get sticky and straw coloured water from the Wasa supply line. Such contaminated water, which causes many water-born diseases, is a public health disaster.' Source: The Daily Star Magazine, 2009