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A pioneering effort, this book provides a penetrating analysis of problems facing the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (ORC) in Bangladesh, and offers, hopefully, realistic solutions. Its relevance extends to all developing countries where progress in children’s rights leaves much to be desired even after a decade of the adoption of the CRC by the international community. The book is a must for researchers, policy makers and ...
This is a longitudinal study seeking to explain poverty in rural Bangladesh during the two decades between 1977 and 1997. More explicitly, the objective has been to delineate the processes within rural society which caused, aggravated maintained and reduced poverty in a typical Bangladesh village during the above period. On both occasions, long drawn and painstaking fieldwork was undertaken within a holistic framework of analysis.
The first half of the 21 century is going to be the era of megacities in the developing world. Unless we manage our cities adequately, all hell is likely break loose in the not too distant future. Given the enormous poverty, the gross gender discriminations and the acute environmental degradation already present in these cities, the likelihood of their further deterioration in the coming years in a scenario of no or little reforms is rather obvious. This is a ...
This is a pioneering study comparing the governance arrangements in the five megacities (Cities with population around 10 million) of South Asia, namely Dhaka in Bangladesh, Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi in India and Karachi in Pakistan within a common analytical framework. The book is divided into seven chapters. The first and introductory chapter lays down the theoretical underpinnings and methodology of the study, besides identifying the major urbanization trends ...
This is a path-breaking work in a field which is attracting renewed interest all over the world, given the growing need for sustainable land utilisation. Since land is still the most precious source of livelihood in the area studied in this work, namely South Asia, the book carries an added importance for the inhabitants of the region. Through a comparative framework of analysis, this study attempts to delineate similarities and differences in land management ...