Papers by Kazi Mahmudur Rahman
Analysis of Drilling Fluid Rheology & Pressure Drop Modelling to Improve Drilling Efficiency
The major drilling problems such as fluid loss, wellbore strengthening, well control, carrying ca... more The major drilling problems such as fluid loss, wellbore strengthening, well control, carrying capacity, torque & drag, stuck pipe, etc. can result from the improper matching of drilling fluid properties. These problems occur due to variations in pressure, and temperature which has a great impact on the rheological properties. Drilling fluid properties can be modified for the successful drilling operation. Research continues the development of drilling fluid in shale inhibition, rheology modification, wellbore strengthening, high-temperature, high-pressure (HTHP) drilling fluids, etc. The main goal of this project is to develop a rheology-based pressure drop calculation incorporating the effects of temperature, pressure and gel strength of drilling fluid using experimental results for the better understanding of undesirable viscosity fluctuation and pressure losses. This study is based on the hypothesis that the rheology model for pressure loss prediction can be investigated to the ...
Bangladesh's Economic and Social Progress, 2020
Fostering Regional Trade in South Asia: Prospects and Challenges*
Regional and Multilateral Trade in Developing Countries, 2020
Export Growth With Conditional S&DT
Dominant discourse of trade led development justifies the treatment of workers by subordinating t... more Dominant discourse of trade led development justifies the treatment of workers by subordinating their needs to the overarching imperatives of development. The official transcript of Ready-Made Garments (RMG) trade induced development is interpreted as progress, while for workers it is associated with the decline in the quality of life and as forms of suffering and even as enslavements. Based on a field survey on workers, in-depth interview on factory owners and observation, this article also provides an account of the political power relations underpinning the-worker/employer‖ constellation in the RMG sector in Bangladesh by investigating the formal and proto-formal arrangements/provisions. Since labour power is a critical input into RMG Industry (RGI), this article also identified the various modes of labour control in the RGI in Bangladesh. The analysis also shows the efforts in legitimizing those controlling practices. The core of this paper is an exposition of the governance mechanisms through how the new international division of labour (NIDL) wassustained despite the worker's struggles. At the end, it envisages to expose the gap between stated governance objectives and governance as experienced.
A Paper on-Aid Effectiveness Reconsidered
International Research Journal …, 2008
The issue of economic effects of aid is fraught with disaggrement. The economic traditionalist ar... more The issue of economic effects of aid is fraught with disaggrement. The economic traditionalist argue that aid has indeed promoted growth and structural transformation in many LDCs. Critics argue that aid does not promote faster growth but may in fact retard it ...
… : a... publication of the Bangladesh Institute of Law and …, 2003
Occasional …, 2006
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promo... more The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process. The dialogues are designed to address important policy issues and to seek constructive solutions to these problems. The Centre has already organised a series of such dialogues at local, regional and national levels. The CPD has also organised a number of South Asian bilateral and regional dialogues as well as some international dialogues. These dialogues have brought together ministers, opposition frontbenchers, MPs, business leaders, NGOs, donors, professionals and other functional group in civil society within a non-confrontational environment to promote focused discussions. The CPD seeks to create a national policy consciousness where members of civil society will be made aware of critical policy issues affecting their lives and will come together in support of particular policy agendas which they feel are conducive to the well being of the country. In support of the dialogue process the Centre is engaged in research programmes which are both serviced by and are intended to serve as inputs for particular dialogues organised by the Centre throughout the year.
Working Papers, 2006
The Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) aims at building regional trade ... more The Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) aims at building regional trade policy and facilitation research capacity in developing countries. The ARTNeT Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about trade issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. ARTNeT working papers are available online at: www.artnetontrade.org. All material in the working papers may be freely quoted or reprinted, but acknowledgment is requested, together with a copy of the publication containing the quotation or reprint. The use of the working papers for any commercial purpose, including resale, is prohibited.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Climate change is exposing populations to increasing temperatures and extreme weather events in m... more Climate change is exposing populations to increasing temperatures and extreme weather events in many parts of Australia. To prepare for climate challenges, there is a growing need for Local Health Districts (LHDs) to identify potential health impacts in their region and strengthen the capacity of the health system to respond accordingly. This rapid review summarised existing evidence and research gaps on the impact of climate change on health and health services in Northern New South Wales (NSW)—a ‘hotspot’ for climate disaster declarations. We systematically searched online databases and selected 11 peer-reviewed studies published between 2012–2022 for the Northern NSW region. The most explored health outcome was mental health in the aftermath of floods and droughts, followed by increased healthcare utilisation due to respiratory, cardiovascular and mortality outcomes associated with bushfire smoke or heat waves. Future research directions were recommended to understand: the compou...
sj-docx-1-jir-10.1177_00221856211063924 - Supplemental material for After Rana Plaza: Governing Exploitative Workplace Labour Regimes in Bangladeshi Garment Export Factories
Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jir-10.1177_00221856211063924 for After Rana Plaza: Governing Ex... more Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jir-10.1177_00221856211063924 for After Rana Plaza: Governing Exploitative Workplace Labour Regimes in Bangladeshi Garment Export Factories by Stephen J Frenkel, Shahidur Rahman and Kazi Mahmudur Rahman in Journal of Industrial Relations
After Rana Plaza: Governing Exploitative Workplace Labour Regimes in Bangladeshi Garment Export Factories
Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022
In 2013, the Rana Plaza disaster highlighted the highly exploitative conditions of the global gar... more In 2013, the Rana Plaza disaster highlighted the highly exploitative conditions of the global garment supply chain centred on Bangladesh. Global lead firms and other stakeholders responded by reforming the labour governance system comprising public and private regulations. How can the effects of this new multi-level governance system on worker outcomes (wages, working conditions and workers’ rights) be conceptualized and explained? Using an inter-disciplinary framework integrating an industrial relations/sociology perspective and a global production network approach, we show how workplace relations (structural and relational workplace characteristics) mediate the relationship between the labour governance system and worker outcomes. A mixed methods research design that includes a factory management survey and case studies enables us to identify and analyse two predominant types of workplace labour regimes associated with different patterns of worker outcomes (procedural and substant...
Governance mechanism for the sustainability of global garment production networks: perspectives from rule-takers
Upgrading the Global Garment Industry, 2021
Elargir la couverture des services du reseau aux endroits difficiles et aux regions eloignees est... more Elargir la couverture des services du reseau aux endroits difficiles et aux regions eloignees est un besoin de plus en plus necessaire de nos vies quotidiennes actuelles et futures. L'augmentation de la population et la demande accrue de services et de solutions de communication requierent l'augmentation de la capacite des moyens de communication tout en permettant une couverture plus efficiente et plus etendue des territoires et regions faiblement peuplees dans le Canada et dans monde. Des etudes recentes ont confirme que des interferences comme les interferences dans le meme canal (ICC) et les interferences mutuelles (SI) ont un impact enorme sur les systemes de communication sans fil et peuvent entrainer une degradation significative des performances. Les techniques de relayage, dans lesquelles une source emettrice communique avec un recepteur destinataire l'aide d'un noeud intermediaire, ont ete introduites comme des solutions pour repondre au besoin croissant de...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Background: Dengue, a febrile illness, is caused by a Flavivirus transmitted by Aedes aegypti and... more Background: Dengue, a febrile illness, is caused by a Flavivirus transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. Climate influences the ecology of the vectors. We aimed to identify the influence of climatic variability on the occurrence of clinical dengue requiring hospitalization in Zone-5, a high incidence area of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), Bangladesh. Methods and Findings: We retrospectively identified clinical dengue cases hospitalized from Zone-5 of DCC between 2005 and 2009. We extracted records of the four major catchment hospitals of the study area. The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) provided data on temperature, rainfall, and humidity of DCC for the study period. We used autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models for the number of monthly dengue hospitalizations. We also modeled all the climatic variables using Poisson regression. During our study period, dengue occurred throughout the year in Zone-5 of DCC. The median number of hos...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Malaria occurrence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh varies by season and year, but thi... more Malaria occurrence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh varies by season and year, but this pattern is not well characterized. The role of environmental conditions on the occurrence of this vector-borne parasitic disease in the region is not fully understood. We extracted information on malaria patients recorded in the Upazila (sub-district) Health Complex patient registers of Rajasthali in Rangamati district of Bangladesh from February 2000 to November 2009. Weather data for the study area and period were obtained from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department. Non-linear and delayed effects of meteorological drivers, including temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall on the incidence of malaria, were investigated. We observed significant positive association between temperature and rainfall and malaria occurrence, revealing two peaks at 19 °C (logarithms of relative risks (logRR) = 4.3, 95% CI: 1.1–7.5) and 24.5 °C (logRR = 4.7, 95% CI: 1.8–7.6) for temperature and at 86...
Development and Change, 2020
ABSTRACTThe Rana Plaza factory disaster in April 2013, which resulted in the death of a large num... more ABSTRACTThe Rana Plaza factory disaster in April 2013, which resulted in the death of a large number of factory workers and injured many more in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry, highlighted the sustained failure of the government of Bangladesh to address safety in the workplace. In the wake of the tragedy two significant transnational governance initiatives emerged — the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (hereafter the Accord) and the Alliance for Bangladesh Workers’ Safety (hereafter the Alliance). For the first time, different key stakeholders worked together to address fire, electrical and structural safety of factory buildings. This study analyses the perceptions of factory managers in Bangladesh regarding the Accord and Alliance agreements. The article argues that although there have been significant breakthroughs in terms of developing a culture of safety adhered to by the government and entrepreneurs, the suppliers have encountered difficulties in ...
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1999
Commercial sex workers (CSWs) serve as the most important reservoir of sexually transmitted disea... more Commercial sex workers (CSWs) serve as the most important reservoir of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including gonorrhea. Periodic monitoring of the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a high-risk population provides essential clues regarding the rapidly changing pattern of antimicrobial susceptibilities. A study concerning the prevalence of gonococcal infection among CSWs was conducted in Bangladesh. The isolates were examined with regards to their antimicrobial susceptibility to, and the MICs of, penicillin, tetracycline, ciprofloxacin, cefuroxime, ceftriaxone, and spectinomycin by disk diffusion and agar dilution methods. The total plasmid profile of the isolates was also analyzed. Of the 224 CSWs, 94 (42%) were culture positive for N. gonorrhoeae . There was a good correlation between the results of the disk diffusion and agar dilution methods. Some 66% of the isolates were resistant to penicillin, and 34% were moderately susceptible to penici...
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