M icrocredit in Bangladesh : Achievements and Challenges Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed Managing Driector Palli Karma - Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) Bangladesh. 1. Introduction In recent years‚ microcredit‚ in its wider dimension known as microfinance‚ has become a much f avoured intervention for poverty alleviation in the developing countries and least development countries. There is scarcely a poor country and development oriented donor agency (multilateral‚ bilateral and private) not
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ORGANIZATION PART Advanced Chemical Industries Limited 2.1 INTRODUCTION Advanced Chemical Industries (ACI) Limited is one of the leading and largest local conglomerates in Bangladesh. ACI consists of different business groups namely: Pharmaceuticals‚ Consumer brands‚ Agri-Business. ACI is the first company in Bangladesh to earn both the ISO9001 certification of Quality Management System in 1995 and the ISO14001 Certification for Environment Management System in 2000. ACI is a public limited
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Commercial Fixtures Inc. + Business valuation overview Suggested questions for the Commercial Fixtures Inc. case are given below. 1. What would you as an outside third party bid under the same conditions (with the same information) for the entire company (both halves)? Why? 2. What do you expect Albert Evans to bid for Gordon’s half interest? Why? 3. What should Gordon Whitlock bid for Albert’s half interest? Why? 4. How would you structure the purchase of the business
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Bangladesh-Myanmar Relations in the Context of Recent Developments in Myanmar 3. Bangladesh-Myanmar relations: Challenges and Opportunities Bangladesh and Myanmar share approximately 200 kilometre of land border. Both the countries have a long history of sharing political‚ cultural and economic affairs prior to their emergence as modern nation states. They have also common heritage of British colonial experience. However‚ after the independence of Bangladesh in 1971‚ Myanmar expressed willingness
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development is the increase in the standard of living of a nation ’s population with sustained growth from a simple‚ low-income economy to a modern‚ high-income economy. (http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_development) Bangladesh is an economically developing country. We cannot develop our country because of some major economic barriers. Economic development of a country effected by many facts including political‚ economical‚ geographical‚ infrastructural‚ international
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Discrimination is the prejudicial and/or distinguishing treatment of an individual based on their actual or perceived membership in a certain group or category‚ "in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated."[1] It involves the group’s initial reaction or interaction‚ influencing the individual’s actual behavior towards the group or the group leader‚ restricting members of one group from opportunities or privileges that are available to another group‚ leading to the exclusion of
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The commercial starts out with a young boy in a tuxedo staring at himself when his mother comes in the room wearing a tan shirt‚ complimenting how good he looks. The boy rolls his eyes and shows a look of disapproval. The mother notices that her son is feeling upset‚ so she tells him to not feel bad‚ and that many students go to prom by themselves‚ but from the kitchen‚ his little sister who is coloring at the table replies‚ “no they don’t.” The mother fixes her son’s black bowtie as he makes his
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In the articles "Discrimination At Large" by Jennifer Coleman and "Ok‚ So I’m Fat" by Neil Steinberg‚ both authors discuss the battle of being overweight and the discrimination they experienced because of it. Coleman begins her article by describing how "all fat people are ’outed’ by their appearance..." She states that all the people who wouldn’t dare utter any anti-gay slogans or racial epitaphs are the ones who verbally abuse her due to her appearance. This abuse began from a young age; people
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been receiving phenomenal attention from many governments. Bangladesh is not lagging behind from it. Economic development for the developing countries like Bangladesh is largely dependent on FDI. The major challenges for the host country are to ensure an eye-catching and conducive investment climate to foreign investors for FDI inflow. In recent years‚ Bangladesh has been devoting efforts for attracting FDI offering a lot of lucrative incentives and benefits
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Colonization of Bangladesh Bangladesh‚ a developing country‚ is relatively unknown in the globalized world and is often confused with its dominant neighbor‚ India. The country as we see it now did not exist even 50 years ago. The purpose of this paper is to detail how the region was colonized‚ how Bangladesh came to be and a brief overview of how it is doing now. As most geographers know that there is an intense relationship between Pakistan‚ India and Bangladesh‚ for good reason too. They were
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