Nafis Sadik

Biographic Data

ID1445668
NAMENafis Sadik
GIVEN NAMESNafis
FAMILY NAMESadik
SIGNATURESADIK N
AFFILIATIONSBangladesh Jute Research Institute
ORCID0009-0008-0510-0461
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Wealth-based inequalities in early childhood development (ECD) outcomes in Bangladesh

    Open AccessTasfia Tasneem Ahmed, Nafis Sadik et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Early Childhood Development (ECD) inequality among different socioeconomic groups is a rising concern in developing countries. This paper aimed to identify and decompose the ECD inequality among poor and non-poor groups in Bangladesh. For measuring inequality in ECD, concentration curves and their corresponding indices were used in this study utilizing the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2019 data. Furthermore, a standard decomposition approach…

  • Sexual and reproductive health and rights

    Nafis SadikARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2013Cited by: 2

    Thank you for your warm welcome. And let me say a special ‘thank you’ to our hosts, the Government of the Netherlands, whose strong leadership and warm participation has been such a strong and last

  • Family Planning in the Legacy of Islam

    Abdel Rahim Omran, H Munawir Sjadzali et al.BOOKFamily Planning in the Legacy of…2012

    How has the Islamic view of marriage, family formation and child rearing developed and adapted over the centuries? Is contraception just permitted or actively encouraged? The family is the basic social unit of Islamic society. Even without compelling population pressures, there has been concern with spacing and family planning. This book is the result of a massive research project, gathering fourteen centuries (the seventh to the twentieth) of vi…

  • Progress in Protecting Reproductive Rights and Promoting Reproductive Health

    Open AccessNafis SadikARTICLEHealth and Human Rights2000Cited by: 1

    Nafis Sadik, Progress in Protecting Reproductive Rights and Promoting Reproductive Health: Five Years since Cairo, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 4, No. 2, Reproductive and Sexual Rights (2000), pp. 7-15

  • Making a Difference

    Nafis SadikARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1995

  • Population

    Nafis SadikARTICLEPopulation and Development Review1985

  • Barriers to Sterilization May be Smaller Than They Look

    Nafis SadikARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1977

    Demand for voluntary sterilization will grow in the coming decades and some of the barriers to sterilization may not be as important as they seem. At present large-scale provision of sterilization is available to only a small percentage of people. Legal factors are cited as barriers but sterilization is taking place in many countries with restrictive laws. There is hesitancy to take an irrevocable step and a reversible procedure would enhance acc…

  • Pakistan

    Enver Adil, J Gilbert Hardee et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1968

    By the end of June 1967 Pakistan had completed the first 2 years of its nationwide family planning program under the third 5-Year Plan. The program is vigorously supported by the Central and Provincial Governments. The high priority assigned to the program is reflected by the initial budget of Rs.284 million (about $60 million) for the 5-year period. As of June 1967 the administrative and organizational structure embraced the services of nearly 1…