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    Role of domestic court and international arbitration in ensuring climate justice in Bangladesh

    2013
    Recently, an international Arbitration Tribunal, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), decided in favour of the ‘climate victims’ of Bangladesh against international gas extracting company, NIKO, and due to that decision, it will now be possible for the domestic courts of Bangladesh to hear the pending money suit on compensation.
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    Institutional approach to anti-corruption: an evaluation of the Anti Corruption Commission in Bangladesh

    The Institute of Governance Studies, 2013
    Corruption has slowed down the economic development, prejudiced investor confidence and development of public education and health, weakened democracy and called into question the rule of law in Bangladesh since its inception. Corruption has brought Bangladesh to the edge of being a failed state.
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    Improving tax compliance in Bangladesh: a study of value-added tax (VAT)

    The Institute of Governance Studies, 2013
    Tax-GDP ratio in Bangladesh is very low (10.6%) when compared with her South Asian neighbours. This is mainly because of poor compliance rate in both income tax and value-added tax (VAT). Therefore, improving VAT compliance will increase Bangladesh’s tax-GDP ratio. Consumption taxes are the largest source of revenue in middle-income countries and in less developed countries.
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    Who trusts others? Community and individual determinants of social capital in Bangladesh

    The Institute of Governance Studies, 2013
    Trust amongst people in a society is considered by many to facilitate long-term growth, educational attainment, democratic stability and subjective well-being. A low institutional trust environment can undermine inter-personal trust in the economy.
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    The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

    Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, 2013
    The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially developed as a tool to reflect women’s empowerment that may result from the United States government’s Feed the Future Initiative, which commissioned the development of the WEAI.
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    The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

    Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, 2013
    The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially developed as a tool to reflect women’s empowerment that may result from the United States government’s Feed the Future Initiative, which commissioned the development of the WEAI.
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    The Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Himalaya | GRID-Arendal - Publications - The last straw

    GRID Arendal, 2013
    The food price spikes of 2007–08 brought food security into sharp focus on the global agenda. Declines in international commodity markets, financial speculation in low cereal stocks, dramatic weather events, soaring oil prices, and growth in biofuels competing for cropland merged to produce a global crisis.
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    The under reporting of women's economic activity in Bangladesh: an examination of official statistics

    BRAC Development Institute, 2011
    In Bangladesh women are engaged in a variety of economic activities ranging from homestead based expenditure saving activities to outside paid work. However, women's work always remains under reported, especially women’s non-market homestead based economic activities. Under reporting is particularly critical in the case of official statistics.
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    Women health workers creating particular pathways of change

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Being a ‘Lady Health Worker’ (or community health worker) in Bangladesh and Pakistan changes women’s status and relations at the level of the family, community, their organisation and society as a whole.  The women’s improved standing in the community reflects the increasing recognition given to health care and family planning.
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    Contextualising the economic pathways of women’s empowerment findings from a multi-country research programme

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    Women’s paid work has featured in the development literature for two main reasons. The instrumental reason relates to its potential to contribute to a variety of development goals, from poverty reduction to human development to economic growth. The intrinsic reason is its potential to transform the lives of women and girls by addressing gender inequalities on a wide variety of fronts.

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