People’s Participation in Health Services: A Study of Bangladesh’s Rural Health Complex

Health is a basic requirement to improve the quality of life. A national economic and social development depends on the state of health. A large number of Bangladesh’s people, particularly in rural areas, remained with no or little access to health care facilities. The lack of participation in health service is a problem that has many dimensions and complexities. Education has a significant effect on participation in health services and administrative factors could play a significant role in increasing the people’s participation in Bangladesh’s health sector. But the present health policy is not people oriented. It mainly emphasizes the construction of Thana Health Complexes (THCs) and Union Health and Family Welfare Centers (UHFWCs) without giving much attention to their utilization and delivery services. The study reveals that financial and technical support is very helpful to ensure health service among village people. However, the Government allocates only 5 percent of the budget to the health sector, while it allocates 13 percent for defense. The paper shows that the Government’s allocation and technical support (medical equipments) are not sufficient in the rural health complex and that the people’s participation is far from being satisfactory. The paper concludes with a variety of recommendations.Bangladesh, health, participation, rural health

Consumer preferences and demand for livestock products in urban Bangladesh

Also available in the ILRI Repository on Livestock Research at http://hdl.handle.net/10568/3009demand, quality, safety, livestock products, Bangladesh, Consumer/Household Economics, Livestock Production/Industries,

Anomaly Detection in Cloud Components

Cloud platforms, under the hood, consist of a complex inter-connected stack of hardware and software components. Each of these components can fail which may lead to an outage. Our goal is to improve the quality of Cloud services through early detection of such failures by analyzing resource utilization metrics. We tested Gated-Recurrent-Unit-based autoencoder with a likelihood function to detect anomalies in various multi-dimensional time series and achieved high performance.Comment: Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020). Fix dataset descriptio

Inflation Targeting as the Monetary Policy Framework: Bangladesh Perspective

Inflation targeting strategy has become a widely accepted monetary policy framework in many countries all over the world. Our study finds that the central bank of Bangladesh is neither inflation targeting nor does follow any other rule-guided monetary policy, rather the policy is formulated with substantial discretion under the guidelines of donor agencies. This paper provides the evidence that monetary sector of Bangladesh economy has gained considerable degree of maturity and fulfils a number of prerequisites to adopt inflation targeting strategy. Using data over 1980-2010 we estimate an error correction model in order to examine if interest rate policy could fight the inflation. This is evident that deviation in inflation from target can be corrected via the changes in interest rate. Empirical findings jointly with few descriptive statistics provide strong evidence to recommend inflation targeting as the monetary policy strategy for Bangladesh.Bangladesh, Inflation Targeting, Monetary Policy.