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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On behalf of all Bangladeshi people‚ I would like to invite you to join us at a typical wedding ceremony of Bangladesh. No‚ it’s not my wedding; I’ve already done that once. In our culture‚ marriage is such a pompous celebration that most people spend quite a fortune and have to think twice to go through the experience. In the next few minutes you’ll find out why?! It starts with the semi-formal event which is the engagement ceremony. It is semi-formal because instead of boy asking the girl “Will
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Bangladesh-Myanmar Relations in the Context of Recent Developments in Myanmar 3. Bangladesh-Myanmar relations: Challenges and Opportunities Bangladesh and Myanmar share approximately 200 kilometre of land border. Both the countries have a long history of sharing political‚ cultural and economic affairs prior to their emergence as modern nation states. They have also common heritage of British colonial experience. However‚ after the independence of Bangladesh in 1971‚ Myanmar expressed willingness
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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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INTRODUCTION Article 77 of the Constitution’ provides "77(1) Parliament may‚ by law‚ provide for the office of Ombudsman. (2) The Ombudsman shall exercise such powers and perform such function as Parliament may‚ by law‚ determine‚ including the power to investigate any action taken by a Ministry‚ a public officer or a statutory public authority. (3) The Ombudsman shall prepare an annual report concerning the discharge of his function and such report shall be laid before Parliament." So‚ when
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development is the increase in the standard of living of a nation ’s population with sustained growth from a simple‚ low-income economy to a modern‚ high-income economy. (http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_development) Bangladesh is an economically developing country. We cannot develop our country because of some major economic barriers. Economic development of a country effected by many facts including political‚ economical‚ geographical‚ infrastructural‚ international
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Colonization of Bangladesh Bangladesh‚ a developing country‚ is relatively unknown in the globalized world and is often confused with its dominant neighbor‚ India. The country as we see it now did not exist even 50 years ago. The purpose of this paper is to detail how the region was colonized‚ how Bangladesh came to be and a brief overview of how it is doing now. As most geographers know that there is an intense relationship between Pakistan‚ India and Bangladesh‚ for good reason too. They were
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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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UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES ASSIGNMENT ON ECONOMY OF BANGLADESH (Macroeconomic Performances) DATED: 01st April‚ 2013 SUBMITTED TO Kazi Rayhan Uddin Lecturer‚ Department of Management Studies University of Dhaka SUBMITTED BY Introduction: Bangladesh‚ small state of South-East Asia with the total area of 144‚570 sq km‚ can‘t still shake off the ill-reputation of being one of the least developed countries‚ shadowed by miserable poverty‚ high illiteracy
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Democratic Practice in Bangladesh From the Dravidian ages to Hossain Mohammad Ershad‚ Bangladesh was a prime place for dictatorship and monarchy. All rulers in Bangladesh ruled with absolute power and until 1990‚ the people did not have much say in the political system. Although some rulers of Mughal Dynasty are credited with following the peoples opinion‚ that was not a democratic system. Only two exceptions can be marked from the pre-1990s era. One is the election of 1946 where Muslim league
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