https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/1116 2026-05-19T17:03:59Z 2026-05-19T17:03:59Z Islam, ANM Moinul https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/1214 2026-02-18T06:15:28Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consumers' Attitude towards Organic Foods: Evidence from Major Cities in Bangladesh Islam, ANM Moinul The demand for organic foods is increasing globally as it is healthier, less emitting and environment-friendly. People buy organic food as responsible consumers in developed countries but what about developing countries like Bangladesh? With this view point, this study aims to find the consumers attitude towards the organic foods as voluntary contribution in mitigating emission and encouraging environment-friendly production. Collecting primary survey data from major cities in Bangladesh, this study estimates the logistic regression of consumers’ attitude (purchase) of organic foods as a function of Consumer’s Income, Age, and Education level, Knowledge about Climate Change or Environment, and having Elderly persons in their families. The findings show that the level of education of the consumers and their responsibility towards environment and climate change are highly significant in building awareness towards organic foods. It also reveals that consumers’ level of income puts no significant importance in creating a positive attitude towards the organic foods. This study suggests that increasing awareness through education and other qualitative measures may change the consumers’ attitude towards the organic foods in Bangladesh.

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Islam, A.N.M.M. https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/1213 2026-02-18T06:15:25Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Demand for Money Function with Output Uncertainty, Monetary Volatility, and Financial Innovations: Evidence from Japan Islam, A.N.M.M. The impact of monetary policy is essentially determined by the stability of the money demand function. Inclusion of financial innovation as a variable led to a more explanatory model which was unable to predict the future. When the inadequacy of partial adjustment modeling framework is adjusted, the model faces empirical difficulties. Considering instability of money demand is an omitted variable problem, this paper employs Vector Error Correction Method to solve that problem. Output volatility, monetary volatility and financial service are included in the model besides real output and nominal interest rate. Based on augmented Dicky-Fuller tests and cointegration tests, long run stability of money demand function is established. The Vector Error Correction Model yields conventionally expected and statistically significant results for all variables. Variance decomposition and impulse response show an increasing effect of monetary volatility, output uncertainty and financial services. On the other hand, interest rate and real GDP show declining effect. Innovations in financial service, output volatility and monetary volatility are vital in explaining money demand.

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Islam, A.N.M. M. https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/1212 2026-02-18T06:15:03Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Economic Growth, Economic Freedom, and Corruption: Evidence from Panel Data Islam, A.N.M. M. Economic Freedom is considered to be conducive to growth while corruption is mostly found to be anti-growth. A related question could be whether Economic Freedom reduces the possible adverse effect of corruption on economic growth. Moreover, how are corruption and growth possibly affected by the major components of Economic Freedom? For example, a major element of economic freedom is Size of the Government which consists of taxes, among others. Income tax is considered as a levy on agent’s incentive to productive activity by reducing an agent’s property right. However, if revenue collected from taxes is used by the government in productive sectors then the adverse effect of taxes might decrease. On the other hand, negative effect of taxes on growth might be accentuated by higher degree of corruption. This paper examines the effects of corruption, economic freedom and its major components and their possible cross effects with corruption on economic growth. By using cross-country data and a panel estimation procedure it turned out that economic freedom was generally positively associated while corruption was negatively associated with growth though the result for the later is not robust. The influence on corruption seemed to decline in the presence of high degree of Economic Freedom. However, the findings were not as robust when components of Economic Freedom were considered separately.

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Islam, ANM Moinul https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/1211 2026-02-18T06:15:09Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Economics of Innovation and Perceptions of Renewed Education and Curriculum Design in Bangladesh Islam, ANM Moinul The creative Education system is one of the effective education systems in many countries like Finland, Denmark, and South Korea. Bangladesh Government has also launched the creative curriculum system in 2009 in both primary and secondary levels, where changes have been made in educational contents and exam question patterns. These changes in the previous curriculum aimed to avoid memorization and less creativity and increase the students' level of understanding and critical thinking. Though the Government has taken these steps, the quality of the educational system in Bangladesh is still deteriorating. Since the curriculum has been changed recently, this policy issue got massive attention of the people because the problem of a substandard education system has arisen. Many students have poor performances in examinations, including entrance hall exams in universities and board examinations. This deteriorating situation is mostly for leakage of question paper, inadequate equipment and materials, and insufficient training. As a result, the existing education system has failed to provide the standard level of education. This research will discuss and find why this creative educational system is getting impacted by these factors. It will be qualitative research. A systematic questionnaire will interview different school teachers, parents, experts, and students.

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