M icrocredit in Bangladesh : Achievements and Challenges Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed Managing Driector Palli Karma - Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) Bangladesh. 1. Introduction In recent years‚ microcredit‚ in its wider dimension known as microfinance‚ has become a much f avoured intervention for poverty alleviation in the developing countries and least development countries. There is scarcely a poor country and development oriented donor agency (multilateral‚ bilateral and private) not
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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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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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MARKET FAILURE IN BANGLADESH: NEGATIVE IMPACT OF DYEING INDUSTRY ON ENVIRONMENT Prepared for: Sheikh Morshed Jahan Course Instructor: Bangladesh Studies (K202) Prepared by: Rakshanda Zihan Roll No # 72‚ Section- B BBA‚ Batch 19th Institute of Business Administration‚ University of Dhaka‚ Dhaka March 31‚ 2013 Market Failure: Market Failure is an economic situation that occurs in free market economy. When in any given market‚ the quantity of a product demanded by consumers does not equate
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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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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Forecast of governmental expenditures and revenues for the ensuing fiscal year. In modern industrial economies‚ the budget is the key instrument for the execution of government economic policies. Because government budgets may promote or retard economic growth in certain areas of the economy and because views about priorities in government spending differ widely‚ government budgets are the focus of competing political interests. The budget has been announced with eight major objectives
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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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Urdu as the official state language‚ protest erupted throughout the eastern wing. On 21 February 1952 (8 Falgun 1359 in Bangla calendar) students protest led to killing of ordinary citizen by the police. More people were killed the next day. In Bangladesh 21st February - ’Ekushey February’ in Bangla - is observed as ’Shaheed Dibosh’ (Martyr’s Day) whilst the United Nations declared it officially as "International Mother Language Day". The Shaheed Minar (Martyr’s Column) in Dhaka‚ and other replicas
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Bangladesh Liberation War‚ 1971 The Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 was for independence from Pakistan. India and Pakistan got independence from the British rule in 1947. Pakistan had two parts‚ East and West‚ which were separated by about 1‚000 miles. East Pakistan was mainly the eastern part of the province of Bengal. The capital of Pakistan was Karachi in West Pakistan and was moved to Islamabad in 1958. However‚ due to discrimination in economy and ruling powers against them‚ the East Pakistanis
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