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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proper education that people get to know about the diversity of this unpredictable world. Education forges the lives of those who get it. Education is one of the important factors that affect the quality and the means of leading a prosperous life. Bangladesh was described as one of the poorest countries of this world after the liberation war in 1971. It had gone through harsh phases of floods‚ droughts‚ cyclones‚ famines and other natural calamities and at present one of the world’s most crowded countries
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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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A divorce is a legal action between married people to terminate their marriage relationship. It can be referred to as dissolution of marriage and is basically‚ the legal action that ends the marriage before the death of either spouse. A legal separation is a lot like a divorce. It involves the same process of filing papers with the court to start a legal action and the court has to make the same decisions about children‚ debts and assets as in a divorce. However‚ at the end of the process 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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Bangladesh has no other options but to attain economic development. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is recognized as a key component for economic growth for Bangladesh. Being one of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) with insufficient domestic savings rate for investment after fulfilling its basic needs‚ the importance of foreign investment is unquestionable. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) will create employment‚ increase efficiency of labour‚ encourage technology transfer and develop new exportable
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Introduction Biman Bangladesh Airlines created in February 1972 using vintage aircraft‚ Biman enjoyed an internal monopoly in Bangladesh aviation industry until 1996. In the decades following its founding ‚ the airline expended both its fleet and its horizon (at its peak Biman operated flights to 29 international destinations as far away as New York. John F. Kennedy International Airport ( New York City) in the west and Tokyo. Narita in east‚ but suffered heavily owing to mass corruption and frequent
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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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