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The quality of education and the prevalence of campus violence in Bangladesh, particularly in institutions of higher education, and their unavoidable interaction, are some of the major concerns in the country’s educational sector. The Ministry of Education of the Government of Bangladesh, in conjunction with the University Grants Commission and the Dhaka University, commissioned the Foundation for Research on Educational Planning and Development to undertake a ...
Floods are a recurring phenomenon in Bangladesh, and they occur in varying magnitudes almost every year. The catastrophic flood of 1998 was the worst in living memory both in terms of area affected and its duration. This book is the outcome of a seminar on Flood ’98, held in Dhaka in December 1998. Papers presented in this volume are by leading professionals who are experts on the geographical, environmental, engineering, economic and legal aspects of flood and ...
A basic theme that runs through the book, and more prominently pronounced in some of the articles, is a rejection of the basic thrusts of the Washington consensus-based free market paradigm as being not only contextually inappropriate but also injurious to the prospects of cohesive socio-economic progress of Bangladesh and, by implication, of similar other developing countries around the world. He has argued that the alternative paradigm of sustainable ...