http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/555 2026-04-05T21:55:25Z 2026-04-05T21:55:25Z Rahman, Mahrab Al http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/4688 2025-10-13T05:34:53Z 2025-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Effect of Liquidity Constraints on Consumption: A Cross-Sectional Analysis in the Context of Bangladesh Rahman, Mahrab Al Permanent Income Hypothesis plays a foundational role in consumption theories as it shifts the analytical focus from current income to long term expected income or permanent income. Although, it introduces a new perspective but it also comes with its own set of challenges. That is the complexity of estimating consumption based on unobservable future income plus the assumption that households face no liquidity constraints. The typical methods in the literature also require specific types of datasets that are mostly not available for a developing country like Bangladesh. To address the challenges of the Permanent Income Hypothesis, the author applies Hayashi’s approach, which introduces liquidity constraints into the model and utilizes cross-sectional dataset, estimated through the Tobit model for empirical testing. Our findings validate the presence of liquidity constrain due to which household fails to follow the consumption pattern per the Permanent Income Hypothesis. The study also confirms the diminishing marginal effects of income and asset on consumption. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Social Science in Economics of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2025-09-23T00:00:00Z Laura, Snata Hoq http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/4358 2024-05-23T03:46:35Z 2023-09-30T00:00:00Z

Effect of Improved Drinking Water and Sanitation Services on Children’s Health Laura, Snata Hoq Poor drinking water and sanitation services are important policy issues that Bangladesh is facing as achieving global sanitation targets and providing safe drinking to water to everyone requires effectively extending WASH services to Bangladesh's citizens. Unsafe water, unhygienic sanitation and poor sanitation infrastructure are still posing serious health risk in many parts of the country. The main victim of these poor services are children who are vulnerable to water borne diseases as they are mainly caused by poor WASH infrastructure. This thesis paper attempted to investigate the HIES 2016 data to understand the impact of drinking water and sanitation services on water borne diseases for children less than 5 years of age in Bangladesh. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Social Science in Economics of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2023-09-30T00:00:00Z Md. Al-Hasan http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/2525 2019-03-13T10:02:55Z 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Do Social Safety Net Programs Increase Calorie Intake in Bangladesh? Evidence from Household Survey Data Md. Al-Hasan Do Social Safety Net (SSN) programs increase household’s calorie consumption? To answer this question, we employ Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2010 data from Bangladesh covering 12241 households. Our overall result is that the SSN programs do not significantly affect household’s calorie consumption especially for the people whose calorie consumption is lower than required. This finding remains robust even after matching for economic and demographic factors. These results are not surprising since the SSN programs are highly fragmented and emerge as a somewhat ad hoc fashion to meet the needs of an ongoing economic or social crisis caused by an exogenous shock. This paper also finds that income is not robustly related to calorie consumption but living area and household’s size are strongly linked to calorie consumption. JEL Classification: H 55, C21, C31, H31 This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Social Science in Economics of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Shafiquddin, Raisa http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/2117 2019-03-13T10:02:22Z 2016-12-20T00:00:00Z

A Markov-Switching Model of Taka/Rupee Exchange Rate: estimation and forecasting Shafiquddin, Raisa This study considers the validity of a (modified) monetary exchange rate model between monthly Bangladeshi Taka and Indian Rupee exchange rate in a Markov-switching framework. To reflect the beginning of the floating exchange rate regime by Bangladesh Bank, the sample period spans from May 2003 to March 2016. Empirical results lend support for Markov-switching model in capturing the long swings in the observed exchange rate. The results also show that various monetary fundamentals (i.e., interest rate differential, inflation rate differential, money growth differential, and trade balance) are statistically significant determinants of Taka-Rupee exchange rate. It then conducts several out-of-sample forecasting performances of the Markov-switching monetary model against a random walk model. A rolling window Markov-switching model generates better forecasts than a random walk. Policy implications of the results are also discussed. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Social Science in Economics of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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