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This article aims to extend the current understanding of social networking in small creative traditional sectors in developing countries. Most of the relevant studies have tended to focus on developed countries while neglecting the developing countries perspective. However, our study stresses that small craft firms—subsector of creative industries—are not only significant for income and employment generation but these businesses also are dominant in most of the developing countries. Hence, this article develops a model to demonstrate the effects of social networking on innovation and thus entrepreneurial success in small creative firms from developing countries perspective. We empirically tested our proposed research model on a sample of 254 small creative firms in the craft sector located in Bangladesh. Our results suggest that small creative firms can and do benefit from establishing a cooperative relationship with buyers, suppliers, and designers. However, cooperation with competitors does not have a significant impact on innovation. The findings of our study have substantial implications for both practitioners and policymakers interested in enhancing innovation among small creative firms mainly craft sector. In particular, we argue that a small creative firm’s innovative activity benefits from close relations with suppliers and designers.

He completed his bachelor of science in agriculture and the master in agricultural extension education from Bangladesh Agricultural University. He also completed MBA from commonwealth of learning. He also completed two diplomas in banking and Islamic banking. His research interest includes resilience, disaster management, livelihood and climate changes and education economy. He has published couple of scientific articles and one book on Poverty of Island Char Dwellers in Bangladesh. He is a member of several professional bodies. Mr. Sarker is now working as an editorial board member of several social sciences and public administration journals.

Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. In particular, its riverine-island (char) dwellers face continuous riverbank erosion, frequent flooding, and other adverse effects of climate change that increase their vulnerability. This paper aims to assess the livelihood vulnerability of riverine communities by applying the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) vulnerability framework and the livelihood vulnerability index (LVI). Results indicate substantial variation in the vulnerability of char dwellers based on mainland proximity. The main drivers of livelihood vulnerability are char-dweller adaptation strategies and access to food and health services. The study further reveals that riverbank erosion, frequent flood inundation, and lack of employment and access to basic public services are the major social and natural drivers of livelihood vulnerability. Char-based policy focusing on short-and long-term strategy is required to reduce livelihood vulnerability and enhance char-dweller resilience.2 of 23 seasons are becoming drier. Challenges such as these are harmful not only to human life but also to the landscape that serves as the basis for successful agricultural activity, e.g., cropping patterns, pest infestations, crop yields, and water availability. Char dwellers regularly lose their agricultural assets, crops, livestock, and poultry, as well as the fiscal and human capital needed to maintain economic success and overall survival.Vulnerability is an emerging concept across disciplines, useful in understanding and assessing the status of people's condition in the face of natural hazards. The major characteristics of vulnerability are dynamic and influence people's social and biophysical processes and systems [2]. Significant mobilization is necessary from the government, nongovernmental organizations, researchers, and farmers to develop successful adaptation strategies [8,9]. The people of developing countries are a vulnerable community due to excessive dependency on agriculture and having low income [10]. However, these burdens may fuel the exploration of potential adaptive capacities of resource-poor communities [11,12]. The extent of people's susceptibility is increased due to the increasing vulnerability to natural hazards of almost all spheres of life, like the social, physical, human, financial, and natural dimensions [13,14]. Though the effect of natural hazards may be occasional, seasonal, or year-round [15,16], the extent of exposure is not the same for all communities.A context-specific approach is required for exploring and assessing vulnerability to draft proper policy and strategy at all administrative levels and reduce adverse effects on livelihoods [4,17,18]. The interaction between people and their biophysical and social environment is readily used to assess the development-policy framework by using specific indicators [19], representing context-specific adaptation strategies [20], to compare and monitor the extent of vulnerability over time, space, and reso...

Rice farmers in Bangladesh face various environmental, climatic and market price-related risks. Choices of various operational tactics used for farm management are mostly influenced by farmers' risk perception and attitude. This study intends to discover the influencing factors of a farmer on the risk associated with environmental and climatic issues. This study quantifies the risk perceptions of rice farmers, their perceived behavior, and various associated underlying factors using a crosssectional dataset on 600 rice farmers from three major rice-growing districts in Bangladesh. Equally, Likely Certainty Equivalent approach has been used to rank the farmers' perceptions of three major risk dimensions such as the risk of market price fluctuation, the risk from various natural hazards, and risk of pest and disease. Probit regression is also used to discern the underlying factors affecting risk attitudes and perceptions. The results show that farmers' age, total family income, distance from the farm gate to the main market, savings, agricultural credit, off-farm income, access to information, and frequent contact with extension officers are significant determinants that affect farmers' risk attitudes and perceptions. This study provides in-depth insights for farmers, extension service providers, and agricultural planners on the real situation of farmers in developing countries, particularly those where crop insurance is still uncommon.

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The adverse effect of climate change is gradually increasing all over the world and developing countries are more sufferer. The potential of big data can be an effective tool to make an appropriate adaptation strategy and enhance the resilience of the people. This study aims to explore the potential of big data for taking proper strategy against climate change effects as well as enhance people's resilience in the face of the adverse effect of climate change. A systematic literature review has been conducted in the last ten years of existing kinds of literature. This study argues that resilience is a process of bounce back to the previous condition after facing any adverse effect. It also focuses on the integrated function of the adaptive, absorptive and transformative capacity of a social unit such as individual, community or state for facing any natural disaster. Big data technologies have the capacity to show the information regarding upcoming issues, current issues and recovery stages of the adverse effect of climate change. The findings of this study will enable policymakers and related stakeholders to take appropriate adaptation strategies for enhancing the resilience of the people of the affected areas. Keywords-Disaster resilience; administrative resilience; community resilience; disaster management; environmental managementAs a new paradigm, a big data approach is considered as the most effective method for taking quick and effective decisions [9]. It can analyze the huge amount of data obtained from various sources such as weather data, social media, electronic and print media, non-governmental organizations, voluntary community organizations, and various social networking sites. Big data provides a big opportunity for communication which can help susceptible community people about an upcoming threat, challenges, risks and disasters [10]. Communication provides a way to communicate with each other before, during and after a disaster to inform the condition to one another and make preparation and also acts as a source of big data [11]. Big data encourage researchers and policymakers to conduct an in-depth analysis of communication data from a mobile phone, social media and other communication devices which has big rationality for disaster resilience.

<abstract> <p>Limited access to financial services is considered as a vital bottleneck for curbing poverty in Bangladesh. Digital technology such as mobile banking can contribute to accelerate people's access to finance but did not receive proper attention before COVID-19. This study intends to explore the use of mobile banking services to accelerate people's financial access in Bangladesh due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic by using secondary data. Mainly documentation techniques and descriptive statistical methods are used to collect and analyze the data. The study reveals that the number of registered mobile banking customers has escalated during the COVID-19 era. Mainly government policies regarding different mobile banking transactions such as cash in, cash out, person to person (P2P) transaction, salary and utility bill payments etc., have significantly contributed to rise the people's digital financial access during this pandemic. People's changing habit towards digital transactions has also contributed to increasing their financial access. The government should provide a convenient financial access platform to create a cashless society in the country.</p> </abstract>