The cost of good intentions: “solidarity” in Bangladesh The cost of good intentions: “solidarity” in Bangladesh Naila Kabeer 24 June 2004 How can the lives and conditions of women garment workers in Bangladesh be improved? Naila Kabeer questions whether the workers themselves benefit from the campaigning approach of Anita Roddick and the National Labor Committee. Anita Roddick writes on openDemocracy with passionate anger about the conditions of women workers in the export garment sector based
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Digital Bangladesh “Digital Bangladesh” and “Vision 2021” are catch phrases in Bangladesh these days. The buzzwords are no longer confined to the lexicon of information and communication technology (ICT) enthusiasts‚ but have entered the vocabulary of the educated section of the population. In its election manifesto leading up to the Ninth Parliamentary Elections in 2008‚ the Awami League (AL) coalition envisioned a Digital Bangladesh by 2021. The alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
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Introduction: digital Bangladesh is a new world‚ a new concept‚ a new dream. Bangladesh is now resounding with the aim of achieving digital Bangladesh. Our present prime minister‚ Sheikh Hasina‚ in their election manifesto of 2008 declared to build up Bangladesh as a digital one by 2021. Since then this concept has become almost a lip-word with the people of Bangladesh. Meaning of digital Bangladesh: our life today is governed by the offshoots of science. Science has ushered in new era in the history
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1. Introduction 1.1 Unilever Global Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch Multinational Corporation. It has a history of colonial exploitation‚ under which it has built its capital gradually. Today it owns much of the world’s consumer brands in food‚ home care and personal care. Unilever employs were more than 247‚000 people and the achieved a worldwide revenue of €48 760 million in 2002. Unilever has also two headquarters. One is Unilever PLC in London UK and another one is Unilever NV in Rotterdam‚ Netherlands
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General discussion on the draft Constitution continued from 19 October to 30 October of 1972. The Constituent Assembly taking to sittings in 8 working days and about 32 hours. A total of 48 MCA’s (Members of Constituent Assembly) in the 404 members Assembly participated in the debate. Of them 45 belongs to the rulling Awami League‚ one to the opposition NAP and two were independents. Of the 45 Awami Leagues 9 weres ministers. Out of 48 participants 16 were the members of the Committee which drafted
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The history of Bangladesh as a nation state began in 1971‚ when it seceded from Pakistan. Prior to the creation of Pakistan in 1947‚ modern-day Bangladesh was part of ancient‚ classical‚ medieval and colonial India. The area’s early history featured a succession of Indian empires‚ internal squabbling‚ and a tussle between Hinduism and Buddhism for dominance. Islammade its first appearance between the 8th-10th centuries when Muslim missionaries arrived. Later‚ Muslim rulers reinforced the process
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Introduction Bangladesh is enriched with extensive and huge qualitative water resources distributed all over the country in the form of different types of ponds‚ beels‚ lakes‚ boropits‚ small and large rivers and estuaries covering an area of about 4.34 million hectare (ha.). There are four categories of major fisheries resources: these are- 1) Inland open water‚ 2) Inland closed water‚ 3) Brackish water‚ and 4) Marine water. Fisheries sector has been playing a significant role from time immemorial
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References: Akhtaruzzaman‚ Md. “Inflation in the Open Economy: An Application of the Error Correction Approach to the Recent Experience in Bangladesh‚” Working Paper Series‚ WP 0602 (2005)‚ Policy Analysis Unit (PAU)‚ Research Department‚ Bangladesh Bank. Bruno‚ M. and W. Easterly. “Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth‚” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1517 (1995). Khan‚ M. S. and A. S. Senhadji. “Threshold Effects in the Relationship
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Foreign Direct investment: impact on sectoral growth in BanglaDesh iftekhar ahmed robin introDUction Until the1980s‚ most developing countries viewed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)1 with great suspicion. In recent years‚ however‚ FDI restrictions have been significantly reduced. Most countries offer incentives to attract FDI‚ such as tax concessions‚ tax holidays‚ accelerated depreciation on plants and machinery‚ export subsidies‚ import entitlements‚ etc. Many theoretical and empirical studies
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1.0 Introduction1.1Origin of the Report We are assigned to prepare a report on ” Starbucks in Bangladesh: A study to explore andexecute value innovation strategies‚ distinctive capabilities and value propositionstrategies ” by our respected course instructor Sheikh Atiq Islam. We will focus on howStarbucks will enter into the market of Bangladesh‚ what will be its value promotion strategy‚what will be the pricing strategies that it will follow‚ the steps that it will take to competewith existing
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