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The Effect Of Price Hiking of Rice On Bangladesh

Acknowledgment:
First of all, I would like to thanks Almighty Allah for helping me to complete this report properly and on time.
I am also especially grateful to our honorable course instructor Professor Dr. Faruque Hossain for his kind and sincere guidance throughout these endeavors and to make my report best and much more knowledgeable.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude and cordial thanks to friends, faculty student, parents for their kind guidance and providing needed information about my report despite of their enormous workload. It would have been quite impossible to carry on the report and give it a final shape without their help.

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TITLE | PAGE NO. | Title | 1 | Acknowledgement | 1 | Introduction | 1 | Research Background | 2 | Review of literature | 2 | Hypothesis | 2 | Objective | 2 | Research materials and method | 3 | Data presentation and analysis | 3-4 | Conclusion | 4 | References | 5 | Appendix | 5-6 |

1. Introduction:

The recent increase in the price of food, especially rice, has been a cause of concern all over the world and has been critically important issue in Bangladesh; as a net importer of food, the price has closely followed the trend of international markets. The result of this unusually high rate of inflation has had a direct bearing on the poverty status of the country as the incidence of poverty is intimately related to the change in food prices due to the fact that food constitutes a considerable portion of the expenditure of the poor.

i. Background :

In the recent days price of rice is increasing day by day. Being a overpopulated the price hiking of rice has a major impact on food security particularly on the marginalized section of the society in Bangladesh. Recent rise in domestic cost of production of rice, together with high price in international market may boost further food

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