Bangladesh-PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS Bangladesh Index Despite its poor-country status‚ increasing numbers of tourists have visited Bangladesh‚ a new but minor source of foreign exchange earning. Tourism in the early 1980s amounted to some 49‚000 visitors per year‚ but by 1986 more than 129‚000 tourists--mostly from India‚ the United States‚ Britain‚ and Japan--visited Bangladesh. According to the Bangladesh Parjaton Corporation (Bangladesh Tourism Corporation)‚ some Tk44.6 million in foreign exchange
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Preface Bangladesh is largely ethnically homogeneous. Indeed‚ its name derives from the Bengali ethno-linguistic group‚ which comprises 98% of the population. Bengalis‚ who also predominate in the West Bengal province of India‚ are one of the most populous ethnic groups in the world. Variations in Bengali culture and language do exist of course. There are many dialects of Bengali spoken throughout the region. The dialect spoken by those in Chittagong and Sylhet are particularly
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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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The Bangladesh Development Studies Vol. XXIX‚ March-June 2003‚ Nos.1 & 2 Bangladesh’s Trade Barriers in a Global Perspective: A Comparative Analysis by SELIM RAIHAN ∗ This paper develops an index of trade barrier for 108 countries and makes a comparative analysis of Bangladesh’s trade barrier indices in a global context. Bi-variate as well as multivariate cross-country econometric models have been estimated to explain cross-country variations in trade barrier indices. The results show that
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Bangladesh-Myanmar‚ two neighboring states of third world‚ have been maintaining bilateral and diplomatic relations since 1972 when Myanmar recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign independent state. It was Burma‚ present Myanmar‚ among the first few states to recognize Bangladesh whether for any specific reason or not. As a next door neighbor‚ Myanmar shares some historical ties with Bangladesh‚ for example-the British colonial legacy. Concededly‚ these two states are geographically apart‚ maintain
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Background KFC Corporation Kentucky Fried Chicken was founded by Harland Sanders in Corbin‚ Kentucky. Harland Sanders was born on a small farm in Henryville‚ Indiana‚ America‚ in 1890. Sanders loved to cook and to invent a new recipe. One day he tested to mix eleven herbs and spices with wheat flour until he got success and he had a secret recipe for cooking chicken. Sanders opened the first facility with a 142-seat restaurant‚ a motel‚ a gas station. During the 1930s an image that would became
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Robert Browning - Biography Robert Browning was born on May 7‚ 1812‚ in Camberwell (a suburb of London)‚ the first child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. His mother was a fervent Evangelical and an accomplished pianist. Mr. Browning had angered his own father and forgone a fortune: the poet’s grandfather had sent his son to oversee a West Indies sugar plantation‚ but the young man had found the institution of slavery so abhorrent that he gave up his prospects and returned home‚ to become a clerk
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quite developed. For the last ten years‚ Bangladesh is exporting medicine to various countries. The reason is that still now‚ the tax and restrictions of laws are not those much strict in this sector. Though these weaker restrictions are causing some problems‚ government is trying to help to develop this sector providing various supports. We have selected this industry because we have seen some opportunity in this sector to be invested. To be honest‚ Bangladesh is not a very investment friendly country
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EU-Bangladesh Relations at a glance: Since Bangladesh achieved independence in 1971‚ its population has grown from about 70 million people to 150 million or more in 2009. Over the same time period‚ the population of the European Community has expanded as new countries have joined. From six EC Member States in 1971 with a combined population of some 210 million‚ the European Union (EU) as it is now called has 27 Member States with some 500 million people. The European Community (EC) established
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as distinguished from sedimentary rock. The hardrocks of Bangladesh are of four types: (i) Maddhyapara subsurface hardrock‚ (ii) Bholaganj-Jaflong hardrock concretions‚ (iii) Tetulia-Patgram-Panchagarh hardrock concretions‚ and (iv) Chittagong-Chittagong Hill Tracts sedimentary concretions. The items ii‚ iii and iv are usually considered as gravel deposits. Maddhyapara subsurface hardrock In 1974-75 the geological survey of bangladesh (GSB) drilled six wells in and around Maddhyapara and confirmed
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