Mohammad Mafizur Rahman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3726181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammad Mafizur Rahman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammad Mafizur |
| FAMILY NAME | Rahman |
| SIGNATURE | RAHMAN M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7950-1961 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Governance, structure, and access
BACKGROUND: Access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) remains inadequate for large populations in South Asia, constrained by persistent structural inequalities, institutional weaknesses, and uneven development. This study investigates the complex interplay of structural, demographic, environmental, and institutional factors shaping WASH outcomes across eight South Asian countries over the period 2000-2024. Employing a Bayesian hierarch…
Socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors in children and adolescents
This study provides useful insight into socioeconomic inequalities and health behavior outcomes in children and adolescents. These findings stress the need for tailored interventions designed to improve the health behaviors of families from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Additionally, addressing unhealthy dietary behaviors, such as the higher consumption of sweet and savory foods among children from higher SES backgrounds, is equally critical. …
Unveiling the future
The results of this research have implications for climate-adaptive health planning, emphasizing the need for focused actions to reduce the impact of climate change on diarrheal illness burdens in towns and cities
Green transition initiatives to reduce environmental degradation
Green transitions are crucial strategies for mitigating environmental degradation and are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations such as SDG 7, SDG 11 and SDG 13. This study used an expanded STIRPAT framework to investigate the adaptation, mitigation, and synergistic effects of green transition variables, namely, Renewable Energy Transition (RES), Green Finance (GFC) and Green Technology (GT). Ecological Footp…
From fragility to resilience
Amid mounting ecological challenges presented by traditional linear economic models, the circular economy (CE) has emerged as a promising, sustainable alternative, fundamentally underpinned by human capital (HC). Building on an extensive literature review and the formulation of critical hypotheses, this study introduces a novel, nonlinear framework for transitioning to CE, employing a panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) technique for 29 OEC…
Analysis of effects of meteorological variables on dengue incidence in Bangladesh using VAR and Granger causality approach
Background: Dengue fever is a serious public health issue in Bangladesh, where its incidence rises with the monsoon. Meteorological variables are believed to be responsible factors among others. Therefore, this study examines the effects of meteorological variables (temperature, rainfall, and humidity) on dengue incidence in Bangladesh. While previous studies have examined the relationship between dengue and meteorological variables using single …
Examining the environmental Phillips curve hypothesis in G7 nations
This study aims to examine the emerging Environmental Phillips-Curve (EPC) hypothesis across G7 nations from 1990 to 2022, employing the cross-sectionally augmented autoregressive distributed lags (CS-ARDL), wavelet coherence, and wavelet causality techniques. CS-ARDL analysis reveals negative impacts of the unemployment rate on CO 2 e, with economic growth exerting positive effects on CO 2 e over short- and long-term periods. Additionally, renew…
Asymmetric effects of long-term war on human resource development in Af…ghanistan
This study explores the effects of war on human resource development in Afghanistan using non-linear autoregressive distributed lags (NARDL) and asymmetric causality analysis. The results of the NARDL bound test support an asymmetric long-run relationship between predictors. It reveals that positive and negative shocks from the per capita cost of war, child mortality rate, and population growth rate asymmetrically affect the school enrollment rat…
Food insecurity, environment, institutional quality, and health outcomes
BACKGROUND: Food insecurity and environmental degradation pose significant threats to health outcomes in South Asia, necessitating effective policy interventions. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of food insecurity and environmental degradation on health outcome indicators amidst global inflationary shocks and institutional quality arrangements. Additionally, it aims to explore the intricate moderating role of institutional qualit…
The efficacy of government strategies to control the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose This study aims to explore the efficacy of government policy directions in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by employing a panel of 22 countries throughout the 2020-second quarter of 2022. Design/methodology/approach The panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is employed to examine this phenomenon and to investigate the long-run effects of government policy decisions on infection and mortality rates from the pand…
Socioeconomic status and health behavior in children and adolescents
Socioeconomic status affects individuals’ health behaviors and contributes to a complex relationship between health and development. Due to this complexity, the relationship between SES and health behaviors is not yet fully understood. This literature review, therefore, aims to assess the association between socioeconomic status and health behaviors in childhood and adolescence. Preferred Reporting for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis protocol…
Food insecurity and health outcome nexus
Extending social and economic protection towards health coverage and basic consumption is suggested as an immediate action to save lives and ensure productivity of the informal workers. Besides, an increase in income and ensuring decent working conditions are also recommended for the health, safety and satisfaction of workers working in informal sector enterprises
The health consequences of civil wars
This study examines the effects of long-run civil wars on healthcare, which is an important component of human capital development and their causality nexus in Afghanistan using the MVAR (modified vector autoregressive) approach and the Granger non-causality model covering data period 2002Q3-2020Q4. The primary results support a significant long-run relationship between variables, while the results of the MVAR model indicate the per capita cost o…
Global value chains participation and environmental degradation in Saarc economies
Policy uncertainty, renewable energy, corruption and CO2 emissions nexus in BRICS-1 countries
Environmental consequence of Australian agricultural trade
Link between environmental degradation and agricultural trade balance (ATB) is an under investigated issue. This article, therefore, investigates the issue for Australia using the data of 1988–2021. In this investigation when a linear model is applied, support for short‐run impact is revealed. However, linear model is unable to explore the asymmetry of the relationship. Therefore, to assess the asymmetry a nonlinear model is applied. The latter m…
Socio-economic factors affecting high infant and child mortality rates in selected African countries
BACKGROUND: Despite the declining trends worldwide, infant and child mortality rates are still high in many African countries. These high rates are problematic; therefore, this study attempts to explore the contributing factors that cause high infant and child mortality rates in 14 African countries using panel data for the period of 2000-2018. In particular, the role globalisation is explored. METHODS: The panel corrected standard error (PCSE), …
Socioeconomic inequalities in teenage pregnancy in Nigeria
There is a need for targeted intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy among low socioeconomic status women in Nigeria. The intervention should break the intergenerational cycle of low socioeconomic status that make teenagers' susceptible to unintended pregnancy. Economic empowerment is recommended, as empowered girls are better prepared to handle reproductive health issues. Moreover, religious bodies, parents and schools should provide counsellin…
Effects of globalization, energy consumption and ICT on health status in Australia
All the outcomes are relevant and useful for articulating an innovative policy in the health sector. The prime policy implication of this work is: the effective, efficient, and inclusive policies considering globalization, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, information and communication technology, financial development, education rate, and economic growth should be formulated and executed for guaranteeing health status
Environmental kuznets curve and causal links between environmental degradation and selected socioeconomic indicators in Bangladesh
Effects of corruption, technological innovation, globalisation, and renewable energy on carbon emissions in Asian countries
Is industrial pollution detrimental to public health? Evidence from the world’s most industrialised countries
Therefore, minimisation of industrial pollution should be the topmost policy agenda in these countries. All the findings are consistent theoretically, and have empirical implications as well. The policy implication of this study is that the mitigation of industrial pollution, considering other pertinent factors, should be addressed appropriately by enunciating effective policies to reduce the human death rate and improve health status in the stud…
The nexus between health status and health expenditure, energy consumption and environmental pollution
The improved health status in the SAARC-BIMSTEC region needs to be protected by articulating the effective policies. The attained results are theoretically and empirically consistent, and have important policy implications in the health sector
The Role of Socio-economic and Female Indicators on Child Mortality Rate in Bangladesh
This study aims to identify the role of socio-economic and female indicators on child mortality in Bangladesh from the data of 1975 - 2019. A number of econometric techniques of time series analysis like Augmented Dickey-Fuller, Autoregressive Distributive Lag bounds and pair-wise Granger causality tests have been applied to ascertain the desired outcomes. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller test has confirmed that neither series is integrated at level t…
Impacts of human capital, exports, economic growth and energy consumption on CO2 emissions of a cross-sectionally dependent panel
Effects of corruption, technological innovation, globalisation, and renewable energy on carbon emissions in Asian countries
Impacts of human capital, exports, economic growth and energy consumption on CO2 emissions of a cross-sectionally dependent panel
Nexus between energy consumption, information and communications technology, and economic growth
The development of every economic sector is significantly affected by information and communication technology (ICT), especially during the liberalization process. Though several studies have focused on economy–environment–financial development nexus, yet very limited literature has highlighted the impact of ICT on the relationship between economic growth, energy consumption, and financial development. We address this gap in the existing literatu…
Green transition initiatives to reduce environmental degradation
Green transitions are crucial strategies for mitigating environmental degradation and are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations such as SDG 7, SDG 11 and SDG 13. This study used an expanded STIRPAT framework to investigate the adaptation, mitigation, and synergistic effects of green transition variables, namely, Renewable Energy Transition (RES), Green Finance (GFC) and Green Technology (GT). Ecological Footp…
The efficacy of government strategies to control the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose This study aims to explore the efficacy of government policy directions in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by employing a panel of 22 countries throughout the 2020-second quarter of 2022. Design/methodology/approach The panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is employed to examine this phenomenon and to investigate the long-run effects of government policy decisions on infection and mortality rates from the pand…
The Australian housing market – understanding the causes and effects of rising prices
This article analyses current housing market conditions in Australia; specifically the factors that have caused increased housing prices in recent years and their implications. The article finds that the number of home owners with a mortgage and the number of renters have increased. For owners with a mortgage, average housing costs escalated substantially. Interest rates, investment demand, economic climate, financial deregulation and innovation,…
Child Work and Schooling in Bangladesh
Using data from Bangladesh, this paper examines how the birth order of a child influences parental decisions to place children in one of four activities: ‘study only’, ‘study and work’, ‘neither work nor study’ and ‘work only’. The results of the multinomial logit model show that being a first-born child increases the probability of work as the prime activity, or at least a combination of school and work, rather than schooling only. The results c…
Macro-economic and trade link models of Saarc countries
The paper examines themacroeconomic structure of SAARC countries, i.e. Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It also explores the possibility of trade expansion \namong these countries by examining the macro-economic and regional trade link models based on time series data of 28 years. The study finds that there are inter-country \ndifferences in production and consumption patterns, investment behaviour, tax and non-tax structures in …
The Australian housing market – understanding the causes and effects of rising prices
This article analyses current housing market conditions in Australia; specifically the factors that have caused increased housing prices in recent years and their implications. The article finds that the number of home owners with a mortgage and the number of renters have increased. For owners with a mortgage, average housing costs escalated substantially. Interest rates, investment demand, economic climate, financial deregulation and innovation,…
The Impact of Childhood Malnutrition on Schooling
This paper examines the impact of childhood malnutrition on schooling performance in rural Bangladesh. The results reveal that malnourished children are less likely to enrol in school on time and achieve an age-appropriate grade by 26 percentage points and 31 percentage points, respectively. Other important determinants of schooling outcomes include infrastructure and education level of parents. One major contribution of this paper is the control…
Does Nominal Devaluation Improve Income Distribution? Evidence from Bangladesh
The article aims to investigate the impact of nominal devaluation on income distribution in Bangladesh both in short and long runs. In doing so, Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing has been employed for cointegration, and Error Correction Model (ECM) has been used for short-run dynamics. The empirical psychology has confirmed the existence of long-run relationship between the variables. Furthermore our estimated results reveal t…
The causal nexus between economic growth and energy consumption
Health care expenditure and health outcome nexus
BACKGROUND: The total health expenditure (as a percentage of GDP) and health outcomes in the region of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and Association for South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) are lower than that of the OECD region and the world. This study investigated the relationship between different types of healthcare expenditures (public, private and total) and three main health status outcomes - life expectancy at birt…
Combining Microfinance and Health in Reducing Poverty-Driven Healthcare Costs
The role of microfinance in alleviating poverty and poor health is significant. Its health programs have been shown to improve healthcare utilisation and strengthen a healthcare system. In the Philippines, microfinance’s widespread presence is seen as instrumental in achieving the objectives of Healthy Philippines 2022, particularly in reducing poverty-driven healthcare costs. However, little is known on how microfinance can reduce the cost of he…
Nexus between energy consumption, information and communications technology, and economic growth
The development of every economic sector is significantly affected by information and communication technology (ICT), especially during the liberalization process. Though several studies have focused on economy–environment–financial development nexus, yet very limited literature has highlighted the impact of ICT on the relationship between economic growth, energy consumption, and financial development. We address this gap in the existing literatu…
Is industrial pollution detrimental to public health? Evidence from the world’s most industrialised countries
Therefore, minimisation of industrial pollution should be the topmost policy agenda in these countries. All the findings are consistent theoretically, and have empirical implications as well. The policy implication of this study is that the mitigation of industrial pollution, considering other pertinent factors, should be addressed appropriately by enunciating effective policies to reduce the human death rate and improve health status in the stud…
The nexus between health status and health expenditure, energy consumption and environmental pollution
The improved health status in the SAARC-BIMSTEC region needs to be protected by articulating the effective policies. The attained results are theoretically and empirically consistent, and have important policy implications in the health sector
The Role of Socio-economic and Female Indicators on Child Mortality Rate in Bangladesh
This study aims to identify the role of socio-economic and female indicators on child mortality in Bangladesh from the data of 1975 - 2019. A number of econometric techniques of time series analysis like Augmented Dickey-Fuller, Autoregressive Distributive Lag bounds and pair-wise Granger causality tests have been applied to ascertain the desired outcomes. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller test has confirmed that neither series is integrated at level t…
Impacts of human capital, exports, economic growth and energy consumption on CO2 emissions of a cross-sectionally dependent panel
The private returns to education in rural Bangladesh
Socio-economic factors affecting high infant and child mortality rates in selected African countries
BACKGROUND: Despite the declining trends worldwide, infant and child mortality rates are still high in many African countries. These high rates are problematic; therefore, this study attempts to explore the contributing factors that cause high infant and child mortality rates in 14 African countries using panel data for the period of 2000-2018. In particular, the role globalisation is explored. METHODS: The panel corrected standard error (PCSE), …
Socioeconomic inequalities in teenage pregnancy in Nigeria
There is a need for targeted intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy among low socioeconomic status women in Nigeria. The intervention should break the intergenerational cycle of low socioeconomic status that make teenagers' susceptible to unintended pregnancy. Economic empowerment is recommended, as empowered girls are better prepared to handle reproductive health issues. Moreover, religious bodies, parents and schools should provide counsellin…
Effects of globalization, energy consumption and ICT on health status in Australia
All the outcomes are relevant and useful for articulating an innovative policy in the health sector. The prime policy implication of this work is: the effective, efficient, and inclusive policies considering globalization, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, information and communication technology, financial development, education rate, and economic growth should be formulated and executed for guaranteeing health status
Environmental kuznets curve and causal links between environmental degradation and selected socioeconomic indicators in Bangladesh
Effects of corruption, technological innovation, globalisation, and renewable energy on carbon emissions in Asian countries
Socioeconomic status and health behavior in children and adolescents
Socioeconomic status affects individuals’ health behaviors and contributes to a complex relationship between health and development. Due to this complexity, the relationship between SES and health behaviors is not yet fully understood. This literature review, therefore, aims to assess the association between socioeconomic status and health behaviors in childhood and adolescence. Preferred Reporting for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis protocol…
Food insecurity and health outcome nexus
Extending social and economic protection towards health coverage and basic consumption is suggested as an immediate action to save lives and ensure productivity of the informal workers. Besides, an increase in income and ensuring decent working conditions are also recommended for the health, safety and satisfaction of workers working in informal sector enterprises
The health consequences of civil wars
This study examines the effects of long-run civil wars on healthcare, which is an important component of human capital development and their causality nexus in Afghanistan using the MVAR (modified vector autoregressive) approach and the Granger non-causality model covering data period 2002Q3-2020Q4. The primary results support a significant long-run relationship between variables, while the results of the MVAR model indicate the per capita cost o…
Global value chains participation and environmental degradation in Saarc economies
Policy uncertainty, renewable energy, corruption and CO2 emissions nexus in BRICS-1 countries
Environmental consequence of Australian agricultural trade
Link between environmental degradation and agricultural trade balance (ATB) is an under investigated issue. This article, therefore, investigates the issue for Australia using the data of 1988–2021. In this investigation when a linear model is applied, support for short‐run impact is revealed. However, linear model is unable to explore the asymmetry of the relationship. Therefore, to assess the asymmetry a nonlinear model is applied. The latter m…
Economics (28 works) · Econometrics (15 works) · Economic growth (15 works) · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (14 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Environmental health (12 works) · Public health (9 works) · Global Health Care Issues (8 works) · Macroeconomics (7 works) · Panel data (7 works)