Abstract: The aim of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is to encourage development by improving social and economic conditions in the world's developing countries. Among eight goals, reducing child mortality is one of them. The paper analyzes the impact of some socio economic factors and MDG on child mortality in Bangladesh. The set of variables was selected after a thorough review of empirical studies. The analysis suggests that female literacy rate and GNI more or less indicate the same relationship as expected. Whereas the number of physicians per 1000 people still remains insignificant in reducing infant mortality rates in case of Bangladesh. Using Dummy variables, the article also mentions the role of MDG (millennium Development Goal) on reducing child mortality over the period 1980-2016 and shows a comparative situations before MDG and after MDG and pinpoints the sources of difference.
Key Word: childmortality, millennium development goals, female literacy rate
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