Bangladesh and Finance policy
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- The BLDS finance collection
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- Search for the latest finance-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Donor priorities in private sector development in Bangladesh
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
- Review of the private sector in Bangladesh and the priorities for donor intervention. It suggests that the donor community can assist through ensuring an enabling environment nationally and internationally, credit and business develop...
- EU policy incoherence reduces aid effectiveness
- ActionAid International, 2003
- What is the impact of a range of EU policies on poor people in Bangladesh, Brazil and Kenya? This paper examines key policy areas (including trade, aid, agricultural policies and support to Foreign Direct Investment) to assess the coh...
- Level playing field? Making world trade work for all
- John Whalley / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- The poorest countries are small players in world trade. The combined exports of the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) accounted for only 0.35 per cent of world trade in 1995. Can trade agreements be made to work better for LDCs? Can...
- Water and sanitation goals: is progress in the pipeline?
- Richard Jolly / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate...
- Issues for donor co-ordination in support of gender equality: building national ownership and leadership
- OECD Development Centre, 2002
- This guide presents a series of case studies examining the experience of sector wide programs in education, health and agriculture. It offers advice on how to ensure that a sector wide approach: contributes to ov...
- How women’s participation in micro-credit programs in Bangladesh increases empowerment
- J. Cartwright; S. R. Khandker; M. M. Pitt / World Bank, 2003
- This paper examines the effects of men’s and women’s participation in group-based micro-credit programs on a large set of qualitative responses to questions that characterise women’s autonomy and gender relations within...
- Do MFIs understand the needs of low income households in Bangladesh?
- S. Rutherford / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2002
- This paper aims to describe the money management behaviour of low income households in Bangladeshi households, both rural and urban. The evidence drawn from this study concludes that the poor are active managers of their finances with...
- The success story behind product standardisation and cost efficiency of Bangladesh's Association for Social Advancement
- R. Meyer; N. Fernando / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2002
- Are cost efficiency and flexible product design incompatible? Given this possible trade-off, how should MFIs react? Drawing an analogy with Henry Ford's moving assembly line method of production, the authors describe the origin...
- Amid some encouraging economic trends, the government must keep a tight lid on inflationary pressures
- D. Bhattacharya / Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2000
- The article examines major developments and trends in the macro economy e.g. revenue earnings, government borrowing, inflation, industrial production, foreign investment, capital market, import, exports, foreign remittances, foreign e...
- The Uruguay Round and South Asia : an overview of the impact and opportunities
- Nader Majd / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- South Asia remains less liberal in trade policy than East Asia, including China. The Uruguay Round's most dramatic effect on South Asia will be the removal of non tariff barriers on the region's exports to the rest of the world. The p...
- Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI)
- Bangladesh Enterprise Institute is a non-profit, non-political research centre. Established in October 2000, the Institute has established for itself a reputation for excellence in its research and advocacy work focusing on the growth of private enterprise in Bangladesh. The Institute promotes issues of importance to the private sector and seeks to initiate essential measures and influence policy...
