Bangladesh has made striking progress on a range of social indicators over the last 15 years, an achievement widely credited to the country's pluralist service provision regime. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have significantly expanded their services during this period and have shown that it is possible to scale up innovative antipoverty experiments into nationwide programs. The unique role of Bangladesh's NGOs is not confined to the delivery of social services and pro-poor advocacy.
This book, third in the series, is on the budgetary process in Bangladesh and is written from the perspective of the poor. Based on a participatory research of IDPAA, PROSHIKA and conducted by Shamunnay, the book proposes an alternative framework of a pro-poor, gender-just and environment-sensitive national budget for Bangladesh. The study finds that despite some changes, the current budget-making process is complex, inefficient and non-transparent. It argues for a set of institutions that would be necessary for creating a favourable policy for poverty reduction.
There was widespread pessimism about the development prospects of Bangladesh during the period following independence. Contrary to the prevailing concerns, however, Bangladesh has achieved considerable success and performed well in several areas of development. Improvements in human development have been particularly remarkable. The economy has also moved to a higher growth path over the last two decades. Not only economic growth has picked up, but it has been less volatile and more stable, compared to most South and East Asian countries.
The book includes revised papers presented at the conference on Emerging Global Economic Order and the Developing Countries, organized by the Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) in Dhaka in June 2004. The topics addressed are: Millennium Development Goals: Reality and Prospects; Globalization, Inequality and Poverty: Theory and Evidence; Post Cancun WTO: An Assessment; New Issues in Development Assistance: Policy Reforms, Ownership, Governance; Global Environmental Security After Rio+11: North South Divide or Unite; and Bangladesh in the World Economy: Selected Issues.
This volume contains a number of studies considered essential for a course on technological capability building in developing countries. It is an outcome of a Technology Link Programme between the University of Strathclyde and the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology. The book aims to help the reader gain a good understanding of the relevant historical developments and also the various static and dynamic issues involved. The focus of the volume is on analysing the process of helping effective transfer of technology to developing countries.
This book deals with the country boats of Bangladesh; the traditional non-mechanized vessels that have plied inland and coastal waters for hundreds of years. Country boats, of which there are several hundred thousands in a great variety of shapes and sizes, are known to play a vital role in the transport of goods and people in a country shaped by some of the world's greatest rivers.
The present volume on Emerging Issues in Bangladesh Economy: A Review of Bangladesh's Development 2005-06, is the tenth publication under the pioneering initiative of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) titled Independent Review of Bangladesh's Development (IRBD). Over the past years, since 1995, the IRBDs, an annual publication of the CPD, have been able to establish a tradition of high scholarship and a credible civil society perspective on key issues of developmental concern and interest in Bangladesh.
'Capacity is the ability to perform appropriate tasks and fulfill roles effectively, efficiently and sustainably. To achieve any developmental objective individually and collectively appropriate capacity of both at the individual and organizational levels is important. Capacity of both at the individual and organizational levels is important. Capacity building is the combination of efforts, initiatives and performance to enhance and utilize skills and capabilities of people and organization or institution at local, national, regional and global levels, aims at sustaining developments.
Human Development Centre's 2003 Report on The Employment Challenge of South Asia underlines the imperative of translating economic growth into job creation and poverty reduction. In Keeping with the tradition of the Centre's previous reports, this report analyses the issue of employment from the perspective of people.
Lacking neither in will nor in initiative, does a majority of the rural population in the developing world nevertheless continue to live bleak lives full of deprivation and vulnerabilities. Today, poverty remains the single most important challenge for much of the developing world. Viewing poverty as a multidimensional reality, this book provides a penetrating look at this most serious of contemporary problems. Taking Bangladesh as a case study, it highlights the many facets of poverty as a state and as a process.