Bangladesh
Facing the Challenges of Globalisation
(IRBD 2001)
evaluates and assesses the performance
of the Bangladesh economy both
from the current as well as strategic
perspectives. This has been done
by addressing developmental issues
of immediate concern and consequence
as well as some selected issues
which have long term and strategic
importance for Bangladesh's development.
Thus, Part A of this year's IRBD
examines major macroeconomic trends
and the emerging problems in the
economy during July 2000-June
2001 (FY 2001) and beyond by focusing
on some key indicators including
overall and sectoral growth rates,
credit expansion, savings and
investment performance, export
and import
levels, balance of payments
situation and foreign aid. Considering
the importance of the impact of
the ongoing process of globalisation
on the increasingly open economy
of Bangladesh, globalisation was
selected as the overarching theme
for the thematic Part B of the
IRBD 2001. Thus, Part B addresses
the impact of globalisation on
some of the key sectors and areas
of the Bangladesh economy including
Poverty, Finance, Small-Scale
Industries, IT Sector and Environment.
IRBD 2001 has been prepared through
in-depth consultation with key
stakeholders.
The Independent Review of Bangladesh's
Development (IRBD) initiative,
pioneered by the Centre for Policy
Dialogue (CPD) in 1995, has entered
into a new phase with the preparation
of the IRBD 2001. The current
volume, the sixth under the IRBD
programme, demonstrates CPD's
continued commitment to bring
important issues related to Bangladesh's
development under
the critical scrutiny
of civil society, and into
the domain of public discourse.
CPD's objective continues to remain
the design of a home-grown agenda
for the development of the country
through the IRBD process.
Contents
of IRBD 2001
Part
A : STATE OF THE ECONOMY
Chapter 1
BANGLADESH ECONOMY IN FY2001: MACROECONOMIC
PERFORMANCE
Debaprlya Bhattacharya
Chapter 2
BANGLADESH'S EXTERNAL SECTOR IN
FY2001: REVIEW OF
PERFORMANCE AND EMERGING CONCERNS
Mustafizur Rahman
Chapter 3
HAS BANGLADESH REALLY ACHIEVED SELF
SUFFICIENCY IN
FOOD GRAIN? A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE
Uttam Kumar Deb
Annex : Chronology of Economic Events
in 2001
Part B : RESPONSES TO CHALLENGES
STEMMING FROM
GLOBALISATION
Chapter 4
BANGLADESH'S POLITICAL ECONOMY IN
AN AGE OF GLOBALISATION
Rehman Sobhan
Chapter 5
GLOBALISATION -POVERTY LINKS IN
BANGLADESH: SOME BROAD
OBSERVATIONS
Mustafa K. Mujeri
Chapter 6
GLOBALISATION AND FINANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT
Toufic Ahmad Choudhury
Ananya Raihan
Chapter 7
GLOBALISATION AND COMPETITIVENESS
OF BANGLADESH'S
SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRIES (SSls): AN
ANALYSIS OF THE PROSPECTS
AND CHALLENGES
Momtaz Uddin Ahmed
Chapter 8
GLOBALISATION AND ENVIRONMENT: THE
CHALLENGES FOR
BANGLADESH
Enamul Haq
Chapter 9
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY:
BANGLADESH
MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALISATION
Ananya Raihan
Chapter 10
IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION ON GENDER:
THE BANGLADESH
PERSPECTIVE
Nasreen Khundker
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Price: Taka 545.00
Total Pages:332
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