This paper focuses on developing strategies to alleviate women’s problems in the disaster-prone areas of Bangladesh. Societal response in Bangladesh towards women’s difficulties, often fail to be practically implementable in this conservative milieu. This situation is aggravated because shelters are few and overcrowded during times of environmental disasters. Occupying these is often prohibitive for women as there is no privacy from strange men, who also harass them. By laying emphasis upon segregated shelters, coping mechanisms of households and responses of women, attention is focused on policies towards revitalizing females in the economy. Females, who are at the helm of households’ adjustments, repeatedly fail to avail migration. Women’s untenable structural and environmental milieu in their community, affects their resilience. Women tend to the households, children, elderly and also guard the property and livestock, which limit their abilities and hence precludes migration. Using unique methodology involving snowball sampling techniques, quantitative, qualitative, retrospective compilation of data that elicits in-depth, informed interviews of migrants and non-migrants, this paper has drawn a vivid picture of the affected population. This would enable more sensitive policies directed at women and contribute to formulation of more gender disposed and nuanced strategies to assist environmental hazard victims.

Keywords : females, shelters, environmental hazard, policies, Bangladesh.

JEL Classification: Q50, Q54, Q56, J16

Smartphone has become part of a standard life for many people because of many activities, apart from communication, that can be carried on. Being an essential tool for communication and other information related activities, Smartphone quality is an important aspect among customers. The aim of this study was to uncover the influence of product information signaling on adverse selection reduction in Smartphone market. There were two groups of Smartphone owners, those with product information before going to the shop and those who got informed at the shop. The findings show that owners who had product information before reaching to the Smartphone vendor perceived higher quality than owners who did not have information before. Nevertheless, the higher the Smartphone quality the higher is the Smartphone price customer has to pay. Informed customers are not willing to buy low quality products even if they pay lower prices. Therefore, Smartphone vendors should ensure high quality and avail information to customers in order to improve customer welfare.

Keywords : Asymmetric information; unawareness; network formation

JEL Code : D82; D83; D85

This study estimates the potential implications of the implementation of AfCFTA Agreement for Chad in terms of trade, welfare and revenue effects. By applying the WITS-SMART simulation model on 2018 disaggregated trade data, we find that trade effects in Chad are likely to surge by US$ 13.33 million while promoting consumers’ welfare by US$ 1.13 million. However, revenue losses are imminent as the country might experience a drop in tariff revenue of US$ 11.11 million. Overall, AfCFTA is expected to improve the country’s trade balance as exports are envisaged to outweigh imports. To mitigate the revenue loses, we recommend that the country keep substantial portion of tariff lines for sensitive and excluded products over a longer period during the liberalisation.

Keywords: Trade; Revenue; Welfare; AfCFTA; WITS-SMART simulation model; Chad.

JEL Classification: F12; F13; F14; F17; I31; O55.

Researchers have explored firms’ IT capability and its effects on business performance, yet the factors influencing the long-term retention of this capability have not been fully investigated. Therefore, our study examines what managerial and financial factors influence the retention of firms’ IT capability by utilizing survival analysis. The results show that IT executives’ managerial power does not contribute to retaining the firms’ IT capability. However, the change of IT managers can introduce fresh insights and expertise to an organization, enabling firms to maintain their IT capability, and the degree of retaining IT competency in firms can vary based on industry-specific features. This study can help firms build their global partnerships and consider hiring new IT managers due to their ability to introduce external knowledge.

Keywords : IT capability, Resource Based View, survival analysis, retaining IT capability.

JEL Code: O32, O33