WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN BANGLADESH What is Empowerment Giving power or authority to someone. Giving strength and confidence Empowerment is then the process of obtaining basic opportunities by insisting upon their rights and asserting themselves. What is women empowerment Simplest of words it is basically the creation of an environment where women can make independent decisions on their personal development as well as shine as equals in society. A women should rise to the top in
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ETHICS: AN ANALYTICAL LOOK INTO THE GARMENTS INDUSTRY OF BANGLADESH 1. Introduction 1.1 Background The growth of ready-made garment (hereafter referred as RMG) industry is one of the most significant socio-economic developments in contemporary Bangladesh. The country emerged as a garments exporter in 1977 when the first consignment was exported to the then West Germany by Jewel Garments. Since then the RMG industry in Bangladesh has grown phenomenally. In the 1980s‚ there were only
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CGS Working Paper CGS WP 4 Bangladesh Bank Reform Changes and Challenges Haydory Akbar Ahmed Background Paper for The State of Governance in Bangladesh 2006 Centre for Governance Studies BRAC University Dhaka‚ Bangladesh www.cgs-bu.com Ahmed: Bangladesh Bank Reform CGS WP 5 The Centre for Governance Studies at BRAC University seeks to foster a new generation of researchers‚ public administrators and citizens with critical and analytical perspectives on governance. The Centre’s State
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users of capital by means of pooling of funds‚ sharing risk‚ and transferring wealth. Stock markets are essential for economic growth as they insure the flow of resources to the most productive investment opportunities. In a growing economy like Bangladesh there are two stock or capital market‚ these are Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock exchange (CSE). Both of these share market is regulated by Security exchange commission (SEC). However in recent times there are some opposite results
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Abstract Bangladesh is a densely populated country. Only a small part of her area is electrified which covers around 18% of total population. The people who are in the electrified area are suffering from severe load shedding. A systematic load management procedure related to demand side may improve the situation. The major objectives served by this article are to analyze contemporary electricity status with a view to drawing inference about demand supply gap and extracting benefits from load management
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justice is this? Is this called free economy‚ is this called brotherhood‚ is this called spreading peace all over the world? Food security is also a difficult issue like this matter. Bangladesh is one of the developing countries of 3rd world and half of its people can not get food twice a day. Though Bangladesh is a agricultural country‚ still it has to import rice‚ wheat‚ oil etc (staple food). Market prices of our daily foods are not stable. Agents are profiting crossing the normal level of price
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Bangladesh has always been considered a natural gas rich country. It is largely available in the eastern part of the country extending from greater Sylhet down to greater Comilla‚ Noakhali and Chittagong. It has also been discovered offshore in the Bay of Bengal. Natural gas plays an important role in the country ’s economy. It is an environment friendly fuel‚ which undergoes clean and odorless combustion. It is widely used as fuel for domestic (cooking and heating)‚ industrial (metallurgical‚ ceramic
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Title: The Trade Performance of Bangladesh in Clothing Name of the Authors and Address Name Present Status Mohammad Masudur Ph.D Candidate Rahman Dept. of Finance‚ Xiamen University Room 806‚ Overseas Education Service Centre‚ Xiamen University‚ China. Phone: 0086-0592-2184800 or 0086-013950178001 Email: masud611@hotmail.com Prof. Dr. Zhenlong Zheng Professor‚ Dept. of Finance‚ Xiamen University‚ Fujian Province‚ China Phone: 0086-0592-5920921 Fax: 0086-0592-5920923 Email: zlzheng@xmu.edu
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Introduction Origin of the report After Liberation when country ’s traditional items of export could not yield expected result‚ in late 70s the government and a section of entrepreneurs - young‚ educated and dynamic‚ began to emphasize on development of non-traditional items of export. By the year 1983‚ Ready-Made-Garment (RMG) emerged to be a non-traditional export oriented sector most promising in the socioeconomic context of the country. By that time‚ those entrepreneurs felt a necessity
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Bangladesh Shoe Industry Uses e-Commerce Tools to Prosper The USAID sponsored Jobs Opportunities and Business Support (JOBS) Program1 in Bangladesh illustrates how innovative business development services can leverage a variety of e-commerce tools across business processes to help an industry prosper‚ dramatically increasing exports‚ revenue to local businesses and employment for women. Critical Tools to Target Business Development Services The JOBS Program began a three year plan in 1998 to increase
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