Globalization

Regionalism Vs Mautilateralism : What Could BAngladesh Learn From the Global Experience

Centre for Policy Dialouge 2005

Summary:
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) organised a dialogue on Regionalism Vs Multilateralism: What Could Bangladesh Learn from the Global Experience? on January 3, 2005 at the CIRDAP Auditorium, Dhaka. In the session, Dr Willem van der Geest, Director, European Institute for Asian Studies, Brussels, presented the keynote paper on Regionalism Vs Multilateralism: Lessons for Bangladesh from Indo-ASEAN Experience. The Honourable Minister for Commerce, Air Vice Marshal (Rtd.) Altaf Hossain

Impact of Iraq War on Bangladesh Economy

Debapriya Bhattacharya
Mustafizur Rahman
Ananya Raihan
Centre for Policy Dialouge
December 2003
Summary:

At present Bangladesh economy is more sensitive to external factors compared to early 1990s when the first Gulf War took place. It is true that the impact of the 1991 Gulf war on the Bangladesh economy, particularly on the export sector, was not significant. As a matter of fact, external sector performance indicators such as export and remittance in that particular year posted robust growth when the entire year is considered. However, one important difference with 1991 is that at

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Increasing the Market Access for Agricultural Products from Bangladesh to the EU

Jorge Nufiez Ferrer

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)

April, 2006

Summary:

This paper analyses the present developments and future prospects for increased agricultural trade for Bangladesh with the EU. The trade relationship with the European Union (EU) is seeing important changes in recent years. The EU has unilaterally eliminated in 2001 tariff barriers for products originating in Less Developed Countries through the Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement, which includes the highly protected agricultural products. This creates important export opportunities for Bangladesh.

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Globalisation and Employment in Bangladesh and Kenya -discussion paper 7

Kunal Sen
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In contrast to the growing empirical literature that examines the labour market effects of globalisation in middle income developing countries, there are few studies that do so for the low income countries of South Asia and Sub-Saharran Africa. In this paper, we study the effects of globalisation on manufacturing employment in Bangladesh and Kenya, two countries that have witnessed rapid integration of their economies with the rest of the world in the past two decades. To assess the impact

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Information society policy in the developing world: a critical assessment

Leo Van Audenhove, Jean-Cladue Burgelman, Gert
Nulens & Bart Cam
Third World Quarterly, Vol 20, No 2, pp 387± 404, 1999

Summary:
The Global Information Society (GIS) has in recent years been high on the political agenda of Western countries. These countries have been concerned with the development of Information Infrastructures in order to achieve the Information Society. In the West there has been a broad consensus about the framework in which the development of the GIS needs to take place. On both national and international levels a framework has to be established which supports competition, encourages

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