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The present volume is a compendium of reports on dialogues organised over the recent past by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). The volume has been brought out as part of CPD’s programme to enhance the outreach of the dialogue process. The volume covers a wide spectrum of issues and ideas which remain under public debate and were discussed in the course of a number of CPD dialogues, held over the recent past. Since CPD dialogues involve participation by most ...
This work is the first in two-volume series edited by the author on the subject of participatory development. In this volume are presented shorter and adapted versions of a first set of empirical studies that the author had initiated in a programme of the International Labour Office in Geneva in the late seventies, and conceptual reflections on the question and problematic of people’s participation in development. First published in 1981 in development, the ...
Shamsur Rahman was described as "The Greatest Bengali poet of his generation" in the Guardian (London) obituary penned by William Radice. It is a view widely shared among Bengali readers in both Bangladesh and India. Rahman's poetry ranges from the personal to the political, the lyrical to the meditative, the modernist to the populist. In this selection the complete range of his poetic achievement is presented to the Anglophone reader in superbly ...
Official figures on female migrant workers from Bangladesh are incredibly low and, most agree, misleading. Periodic restrictions imposed by the government on women taking certain types of jobs in foreign countries along with social norms that reprove Women's Independent Movement have pushed their migration underground. Micro level studies have documented cross-border female labour migration from the country but, for lack of credible national data, a broader ...
If hand mill gives us the society of feudal lord and steam-mill gives us the society with industrial lord... then microchips gives us the society with global capitalists. Thus, revolutionary changes in the information technology have led contemporary capitalism to enter into a new stage globalization. It is a holistic process that has impact in all spheres of social relations. The molding effect of computerization in social processes has unified the world into ...
This book challenges the conventional wisdom of narrowly-defined development which concentrates primarily and decisively on the 'invisible hand' of economic development per-se--a market-based money-metric approach. This book also shows the limitations of the relatively broadly-defined views on human development due to its "not-class" considerations. To the contrary, this book proposes a framework for understanding true development --development as ...