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- Foreign Direct Investment And Development: The Bangladesh Scenario
- Foreign Direct investment is an important determinant of the economic growth and development of Bangladesh. Empirical studies have shown that the creation of an adequate investment environment facilitates increased trade and investment activities which are crucial for long-term growth. Although attempts have been made to create an investment friendly climate,...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- The End of Textiles Quotas: A Case Study of the Impact on Bangladesh
- This paper evaluates the effects on the Bangladeshi economy of phasing out textile and clothing (T&C) quotas currently maintained by industrial countries. The planned abolition of the quotas under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing in 2005 will alter the competitiveness of various exporting countries. Bangladesh relies heavily on textile...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Child Labour Policy of Bangladesh: What Are We Looking for?
- This paper articulates the CPD Executive Director, Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, three main reasons for bringing the child labour discussion to the fore. Firstly, he observed that the CPD endeavours to bring forward issues which have strategic interest from the perspective of Bangladesh's development. Secondly, it is of concern because it...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Corporate Responsibility Practices in Bangladesh: Results From a Benchmark Study
- The rapid pace of globalization of markets over the last few decades have added new dimensions to the concept of corporate responsibility in the context of the market economy. In most of the developed countries multinational enterprises are required to respond to the OECD Guidelines and work with unions and...
- White papers 2002-12-01
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- ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN A LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRY: THE CASE OF BANGLADESH
- INTRODUCTION Since the end of the Cold War, there has been renewed interest in what is now called 'non-traditional' security issues. As late as 1985, the old cold warrior George Kennan wrote in Foreign Affairs, identifying the threat to the world environment as one of the two supreme dangers...
- Articles 2008-06-30
- Ashraful leads Bangladesh to comfortable win over UAE
- LAHORE, Pakistan AFP — Captain Mohammad Ashraful hit a sparkling century to help Bangladesh crush United Arab Emirates by 96 runs in their Asia Cup Group A match at the Gaddafi Stadium here on Tuesday. Ashraful hit a 126-ball 109 for his second one-day hundred and added 141...
- Articles 2008-06-24
- Pakistan win toss and elect to bat in cricket Asia Cup
- KARACHI AFP — Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat against Hong Kong in a Group B match at the National Stadium here on Tuesday. India is the third team in the group. Defending champions Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and United Arab Emirates are placed in Group A,...
- Articles 2008-06-24
- Bangladesh rickshaws get modern makeover
- DHAKA AFP — The backbreaking job of pedalling a rickshaw in Bangladesh could soon be history with a local company saying it has come up with battery-powered, rechargeable cycles. Bangladesh Diesel Plant, an agricultural farm tool manufacturer owned by the country's powerful army, says it has created an...
- Articles 2008-06-23
- World datelines
- Afghanistan: 10 die in bombings KABUL -- Roadside bombs killed five foreign troops and five government soldiers Saturday, part of a surge of violence that has made Afghanistan's battlefields deadlier for foreign forces than those in Iraq. In Saturday's deadliest incident, a roadside bomb...
- Articles 2008-06-22
- THE CRUEL SEA
- Bangladesh, the most crowded nation on earth, is set to disappear under the waves by the end of this century - and we will be to blame. Johann Hari took a journey to see for himself how western profligacy and indifference have sealed the fate of 150 million people ...
- Articles 2008-06-20
- From Denver to Dhaka; Restoring Our Data Legacy
- Data Recovery Laboratory to be created for the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics by Long Island's "Raiders of the Lost Archives" MANHASSET, N.Y., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Science Foundation and the University of Minnesota have selected Muller Media Conversions MMC to create a Data Recovery Laboratory...
- Articles 2008-06-19
- Five Asian nations branded 'worst' violators of refugee rights
- WASHINGTON AFP — China, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Bangladesh have been identified as among the worst violators of refugees' rights in a global survey released ahead of Friday's World Refugees Day. They joined Iraq, Kenya, Russia, Sudan and Europe as the 10 worst places for refugees last year,...
- Articles 2008-06-19
- Western Standard Energy Corp. Adds to Management and Advisory Board
- WILLISTON, N.D. -- Western Standard Energy Corp., (OTCBB:WSEG), an oil and gas exploration company, today announced that it has appointed Dr. Steven W. Ohnimus as Vice-Chairman to its Advisory Board, and Mr. Gary Countryman as Senior Vice-President of Exploration. Both gentlemen bring several decades of experience in petroleum engineering to...
- Articles 2008-06-18
- Bangladesh on hunt for 'wholesome' actors: official
- DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh authorities are on the hunt for a new breed of clean actors because a government crackdown on lewd movies has created a shortage of acting talent in the country, an official said Tuesday. The state-run Film Development Corporation FDC has launched the three-month search...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- Bangladesh makes Internet use free for primary schools
- DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh on Tuesday made the use of broadband Internet services free for nearly 40,000 state-run primary schools to boost the number of users in rural areas, the telecom regulator said. The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission BTRC took the move to expand the use of information...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- BIO-key® and Tiger IT Bangladesh Voter Registration Project Nearing Completion
- Solution Prevents Duplicate Registrations and Issues Voter Rolls and National ID Cards WALL, N.J. and DHAKA, Bangladesh, June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-key International, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: BKYI) , a leader in finger- based biometric identification and wireless public safety, and Tiger IT BD Ltd. Tiger IT,...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- Bird flu situation around the world improving: UN coordinator
- UNITED NATIONS AFP — Although bird flu remains entrenched in Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, the situation is improving in the rest of the world due to measures taken by governments, the UN coordinator for the disease said Tuesday. "If we look at the rest of the...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- Hezbollah may have overplayed its hand by provoking a confrontation with Israel in 2006, but since then it has been running rings around the United States and the United Nations, acting as Iran's proxy army in Lebanon
- Hezbollah may have overplayed its hand by provoking a confrontation with Israel in 2006, but since then it has been running rings around the United States and the United Nations, acting as Iran's proxy army in Lebanon. It is one of the principal aggressors in the Shiite--Sunni conflict that contorts...
- Articles 2008-06-16
- NTT DOCOMO to Buy Stake in Bangladeshi Mobile Operator
- Tokyo, June 16, 2008 - JCN Newswire - NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it will acquire a 30 percent stake in TM International Bangladesh Limited TMIB, a mobile phone operator based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by directly acquiring all stock in TMIB held by A.K. Khan Co. Ltd. and its...
- Articles 2008-06-16
- Exalt Announces Key Asia-Pacific Distribution Partnership
- - Consistel to Deliver Exalt Solutions to Value-Added Resellers and System Integrators For Broadband Wireless Backhaul - SINGAPORE, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- CommunicAsia, Hall 5, Booth 5K-03 -- Exalt Communications, the leading innovator of next generation wireless backhaul systems, today announced the addition of a new channel...
- Articles 2008-06-16
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