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One may point out that in the 18th century, China was the largest economy in the world, while undivided India was the second-largest, and Bengal was the wealthiest province in the sub-continent.
KEEP READINGThe basic purpose of this paper would be to take a fresh look at the narrative of economic growth in Bangladesh and its outcome from the perspective of an important factor of production – labour. This will be done in three parts.
KEEP READINGAt its birth in 1971, Bangladesh inherited major environmental legacies of floodings and cyclones, upended by widespread arsenic contamination in the 1980s. Since the turn of the century
KEEP READINGMy paper will look at sites of ideological affirmation as well as contestations in Bangladesh in the last fifty years. We have witnessed in these years in a thrice-partitioned country, created after a seemingly decisive parting of ways from religion-based nationalism
KEEP READINGIf culture is understood to be a network of signification through which “a social order is communicated, reproduced, experienced and explored,” as the Marxist culture critic Raymond Williams maintained (Culture, 1981:13) then the new trends in Bangladesh’s culture
KEEP READINGBangladesh played a critical role in the history of mid modern architecture of the world, but it is a story that is poorly narrated, and also less known than the high modernist adventures in Chandigarh and Islamabad in the 1950s.
KEEP READINGThe difficulty in defining “civil society” explains how complex the idea is, particularly in the context of Bangladesh. Dominant theoretical approaches and their diverse variants have been found inadequate…
KEEP READINGIn the last 50 years, Bangladesh has achieved remarkable progress on gender equality gains, starting from a lower base compared to other countries in the region.
KEEP READINGThe fundamental objective of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy a long, healthy and creative life.
KEEP READINGAt independence, the dominant concern of citizens and observers alike was about the economic future of the country. Five decades later, a poverty-stricken, disaster-prone…
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