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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Incidence of income taxation in Bangladesh Tapan K Sarker1 ABSTRACT: This article reviews the incidence of income taxation in Bangladesh tax system. The main purpose of the study is to determine how the burden of personal and corporation income taxes is allocated among taxpayers of different income groups. In case of personal income taxes it shows that only 13 percent taxpayers paying around 73 percent of tax revenue collected through personal income taxes and interestingly about 53 percent taxpayers
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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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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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1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background of the study The readymade garments (RMG) industry of Bangladesh is the fastest growing export oriented industry of the country. Starting in late seventies‚ the ready made garment industry of Bangladesh now accounts for over 64% of the country’s total export earning. A close look at the composition of RMG export of Bangladesh over the last two decades reveals that the woven garments sub-sector constituted the lion’s share. In fact‚ the beginning of the development
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Present situation of Agribusiness in Bangladesh Introduction While the words of agriculture are vast‚ varied and rapidly changing with the policies and supportive investments at local national and global levels today’s agribusiness offers new opportunities to the developing country to remove out of poverty. Agribusinesses include smallholder farming and animal husbandry employment in the new agriculture high value products and entrepreneurship in the nonfarm economy. Using agriculture as the
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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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Women in Bangladesh Dana Hanson Women Around the World Women’s Low Status and Power Bangladesh is one of the world ’s most densely populated countries with 150 million people‚ 49 percent of whom live below the national poverty line. In addition‚ child malnutrition rates of 48 percent are the second highest in the world‚ a condition that is tied to the low social status of women in Bangladeshi society (THP). Even though women constitute almost half of the population in Bangladesh‚ their status
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1.1 Introduction As a developing country‚ Bangladesh needs FDI for its ongoing development process. It is a potent weapon for developing the economy and achieving the country’s socio-economic objectives. The climate for investment is determined by the interplay of a whole set of factors: economic‚ social‚ political‚ technological and environmental that has a bearing on the operation of businesses. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has the potential to generate employment‚ raise productivity‚ transfer
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1.1 BACKGROUND & RATIONALE OF THE STUDY: Nestlé Bangladesh Limited is a leading food company with lots of global strategic brands operating in Bangladesh. NIDO is one of the strategic brands of Nestlé Bangladesh Limited. In Bangladesh‚ NIDO is one of the largest profit-making categories of Nestlé Bangladesh Ltd. To reach to more consumers and to better satisfy the needs‚ NIDO is trying to implement some of the exceptional promotional programs such as ‘Ashun NIDO Pushti Jagate’ and ‘NIDO Growth
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