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Protecting Bangladesh's migrant labourers
Construction workers
S. Torfinn / Panos Pictures
This 4th edition of the Protifolon series sheds light on important reforms and actions concerning labour migration from Bangladesh. It is clear that the government has undertaken serious reforms in certain areas but new areas are constantly emerging. The government may consider declaring 2012-2021 the decade of migration and undertake necessary policies and programmes to face the emerging challenges in the migration sector and to promote safe labour migration from Bangladesh.

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A View Over Discrimination And Harassment Situation of Daily Unskilled Female Workers in Work Place in Bangladesh
T Haque / 2012
From the study it was found that most of the female unskilled labourers moved from village to town and had come from distressed family often discriminated /harassed by their employers and co-workers. ...
An Analysis of the National Budget for FY2011-12
Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2011
Paper prepared under the CPD programme Independent Review of Bangladesh's Development (IRBD) Released to the media on 10 June 2011...
EU Ban, HACCP Compliance and Shrimp Exports from Bangladesh
M Yunus / 2012
The paper evaluates the impact of the European Union import ban in 1997 and HACCP compliance on Bangladesh’s shrimp exports by using an augmented gravity model. The paper evaluates the impact of the E...
Peacemaking in Asia and the Pacific: Women's Participation, Perspectives and Priorities
C. Buchanan / Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2011
Ensuring women's fair representation and diverse contributions to peacemaking remains a major challenge. This publication explores the reasons for women’s under-representation in peace processes, both...
Cambridge and international development: the ideas, the people, the impact
I. Steed / 2010
This report is the first in a series of annual publications by the Humanitarian Centre examining the ways in which Cambridge has a real impact on the lives of people living in developing countries. It...
Seasonal and extreme poverty in Bangladesh : evaluating an ultra-poor microfinance project
2010
Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a program known as PRIME was introduced in 2006 to address both concerns. Unlike regula...
Bangladesh: country environmental analysis
2012
Bangladesh’s steady economic growth has created many environmental challenges, particularly in urban and industrialized areas. The Country Environmental Analysis for Bangladesh underpins complex linka...
To the MDGs and beyond: accountability and institutional innovation in Bangladesh
2007
Bangladesh is on track to achieve most of the MDG goals, even the difficult ones like infant and maternal mortality provided that the quality and institutional mechanisms of service delivery to the po...
India & Bangladesh: bilateral trade- potential free trade agreement
2006
India and Bangladesh have long shared common objectives for closer economic integration within the South Asia region and trade between the two countries has grown rapidly since the early 1990s. A free...
Economics and governance of nongovernmental organizations in Bangladesh
2006
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 organi...
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