Foreign Direct investment: impact on sectoral growth in BanglaDesh iftekhar ahmed robin introDUction Until the1980s‚ most developing countries viewed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)1 with great suspicion. In recent years‚ however‚ FDI restrictions have been significantly reduced. Most countries offer incentives to attract FDI‚ such as tax concessions‚ tax holidays‚ accelerated depreciation on plants and machinery‚ export subsidies‚ import entitlements‚ etc. Many theoretical and empirical studies
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Inner Beauty is the Real Beauty EunSuk Ji (Jenny) from Korea When I was young‚ I read many kinds of books‚ including fairy tales. Most of the books described heroes who were handsome and heroines who were beautiful. So‚ I believed I had to be beautiful if I wanted to become a great person. It was a hard time for me. Whenever I looked at someone who was more beautiful than me‚ I was stressed. As I grew up‚ I began to realize outer beauty was not so important to make someone good. I remember a friend
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Bangladesh has a subtropical monsoon climate characterized by wide seasonal variations in rainfall‚ moderately warm temperatures‚ and high humidity. Regional climatic differences in this flat country are minor. Three seasons are generally recognized: a hot‚ humid summer from March to June; a cool‚ rainy monsoon season from June to October; and a cool‚ dry winter from October to March. In general‚ maximum summer temperatures range between 32°C and 38°C. April is the warmest month in most parts of
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Education forges the lives of those who get it. Education is one of the important factors that affect the quality and the means of leading a prosperous life. Bangladesh was described as one of the poorest countries of this world after the liberation war in 1971. It had gone through harsh phases of floods‚ droughts‚ cyclones‚ famines and other natural calamities and at present one of the world’s most crowded countries still remains well below the poverty line and as a result most of the population is still
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Changes in Bangladesh Bangladesh came to today ’s shape through a long history of political evolution. Bengal was probably the wealthiest part of the subcontinent up till the 16th century. The area ’s early history featured a succession of Indian empires‚ internal squabbling‚ and a tussle between Hinduism and Buddhism for dominance. All of this was just a prelude to the unstoppable tide of Islam which washed over northern India at the end of the 12th century. Mohammed Bakhtiar Khalzhi from Turkistan
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UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES ASSIGNMENT ON ECONOMY OF BANGLADESH (Macroeconomic Performances) DATED: 01st April‚ 2013 SUBMITTED TO Kazi Rayhan Uddin Lecturer‚ Department of Management Studies University of Dhaka SUBMITTED BY Introduction: Bangladesh‚ small state of South-East Asia with the total area of 144‚570 sq km‚ can‘t still shake off the ill-reputation of being one of the least developed countries‚ shadowed by miserable poverty‚ high illiteracy
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Summaries of Newspaper Articles Article: 1 Action against Noise Pollution Overdue Shihab Ahmed The Financial Express Monday‚ January 18‚ 2010 The article reports that there is a draft for noise pollution control law that the government has not yet paid enough importance to in spite of its urgency. The law proposes a fine of Taka 10‚000 and a maximum imprisonment of six months for producing noise higher than the permissible limits. The Society for Assistance of Hearing Impaired Children
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Present situation of Agribusiness in Bangladesh Introduction While the words of agriculture are vast‚ varied and rapidly changing with the policies and supportive investments at local national and global levels today’s agribusiness offers new opportunities to the developing country to remove out of poverty. Agribusinesses include smallholder farming and animal husbandry employment in the new agriculture high value products and entrepreneurship in the nonfarm economy. Using agriculture as the
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Urdu as the official state language‚ protest erupted throughout the eastern wing. On 21 February 1952 (8 Falgun 1359 in Bangla calendar) students protest led to killing of ordinary citizen by the police. More people were killed the next day. In Bangladesh 21st February - ’Ekushey February’ in Bangla - is observed as ’Shaheed Dibosh’ (Martyr’s Day) whilst the United Nations declared it officially as "International Mother Language Day". The Shaheed Minar (Martyr’s Column) in Dhaka‚ and other replicas
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References: Akhtaruzzaman‚ Md. “Inflation in the Open Economy: An Application of the Error Correction Approach to the Recent Experience in Bangladesh‚” Working Paper Series‚ WP 0602 (2005)‚ Policy Analysis Unit (PAU)‚ Research Department‚ Bangladesh Bank. Bruno‚ M. and W. Easterly. “Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth‚” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1517 (1995). Khan‚ M. S. and A. S. Senhadji. “Threshold Effects in the Relationship
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