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Arsenic crisis today: strategy for tomorrow
Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, United Nations University, 2001
This document presents ideas and concepts for ways to cope with the arsenic crisis first highlighted by the presence of arsenic in groundwater extracted from the alluvial aquifer underlying West Bengal and Bangladesh. The focus is on Bangladesh, but the findings may be applied to any other part of the world.
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The green revolution and the growth of the informal sector in Bangladesh
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1996
This paper is the first in a series of papers on a restudy of a village in the Barind tract of northern Bangladesh. At the time of the original study in 1975/76 boro cultivation was negligible, due to lack ofirrigation facilities. There were few job opportunities outside agriculture in the village and in the neighbouring small town.