IV WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT IN BANGLADESH: CONUNDRUMS AMIDST PROGRESS Summary • • • • • • • • • • • Women’s work participation rates have doubled in Bangladesh since 1995 but they are still extremely low at 26 percent. The dramatic growth in women’s employment is led by the health and community service sector. Younger women’s employment has seen the largest increase. Higher education is an important predictor of both entry into the labor market and wages. Micro credit has had direct and indirect
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BNP CALLS HARTAL IN RANGPUR FOR TOMORROW BNP will enforce a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Rangpur district on 1st Dec 13 demanding release of its Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed. Earlier‚ police arrested Rizvi from BNP’s central office in the capital early this morning. SHIBIR MAN KILLED IN JHENIDAH COP FIRING An activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir‚ student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami‚ was killed and five including three law enforcers were injured when police‚ after being attacked‚ opened
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The possibility that microorganisms exist was discussed for many centuries before their actual discovery in the 17th century. The existence of unseen microbiological life was postulated by Jainism‚ which is based on Mahavira’s teachings as early as 6th century BCE.[19] Paul Dundas notes that Mahavira asserted existence of unseen microbiological creatures living in earth‚ water‚ air and fire.[20] Jain scriptures also describe nigodas‚ which are sub-microscopic creatures living in large clusters and
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Subject: Business Economics Subject Code: BUECO5903 Course Coordinator / Moderator: Paul McPhee / David Spiers Assignment A: Microeconomics Student Name: Noor Aini Faiz Student Number: 30120381 Lecturer: Dr. Ganeshamoorthy Question 1: (a) Explain and illustrate using suitable diagrams‚ the impact of external costs and
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Bangladesh in Transition Emily Drew Introduction On February 3‚ 2001‚ half a million Bangladeshi citizens gathered in Dhaka to participate in a social movement that demonstrated against human rights abuses‚ economic injustice‚ and political corruption. At “The Peoples’ Grand Rally‚” the United Citizen’s Movement (UCM) presented a 10-point declaration that demanded “strengthening democracy‚ ensuring good governance and free election‚ fighting communalism and corruption‚ empowering women‚ …and resisting
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Although both GDP and HDI measure the standard of living in a nation through one statistic‚ GDP is less comprehensive than HDI‚ making it not reflect societal well-being as all-rounded as HDI. GDP show total income of a country‚ indicating that only economic growth is taken into consideration. However‚ through means and expected years of schooling‚ life expectancy at birth and gross national income per capital‚ HDI can cover three dimensions: education‚ health and living standard‚ making HDI serve
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BANGLADESH: COUNTRY OVERVIEW Bangladesh is situated in southern Asia‚ on the delta of the 2 largest rivers on the Indian subcontinent—the Ganges and Jamuna (Brahmaputra). It borders with India in the west‚ north‚ and east‚ with Burma (also known as Myanmar) in the southeast‚ and with the Bay of Bengal in the south. The country’s area is 144‚000 square kilometers (55‚598 square miles)‚ and it is divided into 6 administrative divisions (Dhaka‚ Chittagong‚ Khulna‚ Barisal‚ Rajshai and Sylhet) and 4
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TERM PAPER ON Branding Bangladesh Submitted To Md. Rafiuddin Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Submitted By Papercut SL.NO. NAME ROLL 01. MD. SAHADAT HOSSAIN 255 02. MD.ASADUL ISLAM 01 03. MD.ALAUDDIN TAREK 127 04. NAZMA ISLAM 23 05. Samina Chowdhury Risha 83 11th May‚ 2013 Md. Rafiuddin Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Marketing Faculty of Business Studies University of Dhaka Subject: Submission of the Report
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GROWTH OF MICRO-CREDIT IN INDIA: AN EVALUATION (90th Conference volume of Indian Economic Association 2007 Dr. Md. Tarique * & Ranjan Kumar Thakur † The success of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has established the fact and several literatures in this regard also acknowledge the fact that poor are bankable in terms of capacity to save and repay the loans provided the same are collected at the doorstep in small amount at frequent intervals. This is the basic principle of micro-finance‚ which
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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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