http://localhost:8080/handle/123456789/3788 2026-04-18T16:16:42Z http://localhost:8080/handle/123456789/4861 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS BETWEEN ETHNIC (GARO) COMMUNITY AND MAINSTREAM PEOPLE OF BANGLADESH. ANANDA, KRISHNA KRIPA The study aimed to know the socio-economic status of Garo community in comparison to mainstream people. Nalitabari upazila under Sherpur district of Bangladesh has been selected as a case study area situated in the east border area of Bangladesh where the indigenous Garo people are living. For eras, the Garo’s have been the “Adivasies” of Bangladesh who maintained Sanatani religion. Today almost all the Garo people practice Christianity. Forty-two ethnic households & forty three respondents from mainstream people were selected randomly for data collection. Primary data were collected from a set of structured questionnaires containing 23 questions to know their socio-cultural status. Specially, the discussion was made with old age witty people of the ethnic as well as secondary data were obtained through reading various tribal magazines and history. From the observation, this study observed that socio-economic condition of the tribal is getting better day by day. Though there are some problems having in the area like poor communication, unemployment, lac of electricity, social security and land conflict with mainstream people. But primary health and income status are found improved enough as well as socio-cultural bonding with in ethnic is very strong. From the study I found the following observations regarding Garo community & mainstream people. (a) Possession of land among Garo community is much lower than the mainstream people. Reasons might be these as Garo community is not well aware about the legal procedures. Moreover, mainstream people have been engulfing them gradually with the help of administrative and political influences. (b) The Garo community people are higher in migratory works so that monthly income of them is also higher in some cases. (c) Also the Garo community lags far behind than the mainstream people in case of level of education and socio-political involvement accompanied by a difficulties during receiving govt. aids because of ignorance as they are Garo. (d) Most of the time the Garo people are forced to work with a lower wage because of the unfair socio-economic environment. (e) Garo people have much positive feeling about mainstream people. A thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Agribusiness Management Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) IN DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY STUDIES 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/handle/123456789/3830 IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF LUXMIPUR DISTRICT FATEMA, KANIZ The aim of this thesis to understand the impact of microfinance on women empowerment. As they are the half in number of our total population. Without their empowerment, we can‟t think the ultimate development of our society as well as our country. The impact of microfinance on women‟s empowerment remains debated. While some studies suggest that microfinance helps women increase their income earning abilities,leading to greater power within the household, others argue that men often take control over the credit and income which was allocated to women, leading to a more vulnerable position within the household for women. This paper evaluates the impact of microfinance on women‟s empowerment in rural Bangladesh. The data were collected via a questionnaire that was conducted on a field study in the district of Luxmipure in Bangladesh. Only primary data were collected for this study. The survey method was followed for data collection. SPSS software was used to analyzed the collected data. Furthermore, the impact of microfinance on women‟s empowerment is examined through women empowerment index (WEI), which describes us the status of women empowerment through different descriptive statistics. From the study we can find that the women empowerment index of all respondents is 3.47 which is moderate value of index, the value describe still in our rual area women don‟t have that much power of making decision about economic, social and political isuues. Women can take loan from various government and non government organization but most of the time they are not the real user of that money. Their husband or son take all the decision about use of loan. On the other hand if they use the loan for their business they can‟t save money without husband‟s concern. So we need more awear about women empowerment activities. Now, if we tell about the microfinancing institution, they also have huge problem specially for women such as high rate of interest, lack of desirable loan, lace of easy process of loan, lack of digital payment system, weekly installment etc. The study also recommends some policy to solve these problems. Both government and responsible authorities also need to work together to make the processes easy and secure. A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Agribusiness Management, Sger-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY STUDIES SEMESTER: JANUARY-JUNE, 2020 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/handle/123456789/3822 WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH MICROFINANCE IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF BOGURA DISTRICT IN BANGLADESH AMIN, MD. RUHUL The objectives of this study were to describe the selected characteristics of the women; to determine the level of empowerment of women through microfinance. The study was conducted in Shibganj upazilla under Bogura District. Data were collected by using interview schedule from the randomly selected 80 respondents during 1 November to 30 th December, 2019. Multiple regression model was used in the study. The higher proportion 52.5 percent of the women had medium empowerment; while 26.25 percent of the women had low empowerment and 21.25 percent of the women had high empowerment through microfinance program. Among selected characteristics of the respondent’s viz. number of loan-taking purposes, age, education, annual family income, credit received and decision-making ability of the respondents had significant positive contribution with their empowerment. Loan repayment period was very short and was the 1 st problem followed by high rate of interest and lack of intention to serve in the apparently inaccessibly location was the last problem. So, the policy makers should consider these important factors to increase women empowerments. st A Thesis Submitted to te Faculty of Agribusiness Management Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) IN DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY STUDIES SEMESTER: JANUARY-JUNE, 2020 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/handle/123456789/3821 PROFITABILITY OF BORO RICE CULTIVATION IN THE SELECTED AREAS OF NARAIL DISTRICT IN BANGLADESH HOSSAIN, MD. RAJIB The purpose of the study was to identify the major socio-economic characteristics of the boro rice farmers; to assess the profitability of boro rice production farmers; and to identify problem faced by the farmers in rice boro production. The study was undertaken purposively in Lohagar upazila under Norail district. Validated and wellstructured interview schedule (questionnaire) was used to collect data from 95 rice cultivars during 1st January, 2020 to 1 st February, 2020. Per hectare gross return of boro rice cultivation under small, medium and large farms were Tk. 119120, Tk. 116900 and Tk. 115040, respectively. Gross margin was found to be Tk. 67081, Tk. 62543 and Tk. 59036 per hectare for small, medium and large boro rice farm, respectively. Total net return were estimated as Tk. 35180, Tk. 34126 and Tk. 29336 for small, medium and large boro rice farm per hectare, respectively. Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) were found to be 1.15, 1.13 and 1.08 for small, medium and large rice farm, respectively. Cobb-Douglas production function analysis was carried out for examining the factors affecting the profitability of input use. In most of the cases the coefficients of irrigation, cost of land preparation, human labor cost, cost of manure and cost of pesticide appeared to be positive significant except the negative and significant effect of seed cost and cost of TSP. The values of the coefficient of multiple determination of boro rice production were 0.92 which implied that about 92 percent of the total variation in the gross return could be explained by the included explanatory variables of the model. Lack of fertilizer during cultivation time was the l st problem and lack of storage facility was ranked the last. A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Agribusiness Management,Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, in Partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) IN DEVELOPMEMT AND POVERTY STUDIES SEMESTER: JANUARY-JUNE, 2020 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z