Books
The
New Bangladesh
Sanyat
Sattar
Executive
Report on Strategies in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh research Group
Icon Group International Inc.; November 2000
Bangladesh
has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.
This report puts these executives on the fast track. Ten chapters
provide an overview of how to strategically access this important
market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing and
distribution options, export and direct investment options,
and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human
resources). Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs
are given.
God
Willing
Ali Riaz
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; June 2004
"Is
Bangladesh becoming a Taliban state?" The question has
become urgent in light of the growing strength of militant
groups supposedly aligned with Al Quaida, the landslide victory
of the centre-right coalition in the general election of October
2001, and the deliberate and planned violence against religious
minorities that followed. God Willing explores the
explosive issue of Talibanisation by analysing the politics
of Islamism in the world's third most populous Muslim country.
Ali Riaz helps the reader to understand the emergence of Islamism
as a legitimate democratic politics in a largely secular state,
as opposed to the media's sensational portrayal of Bangladesh
as a country overrun by Islamist forces with a supranational
agenda. The author compares Bangladesh with Indonesia and
Pakistan, thus adding a valuable global context for evaluating
the politics of Muslim countries.
Who
Needs Credit?
Geoffrey D. Wood & Iffat Sharif (editors)
Zed Books; January 1998
In recent
years Micro-credit, the loan of small sums to people excluded
from normal banking processes, has emerged as an important
and growing issue in Development Policy. The result of disillusionment
with the ability of either government agencies or international
aid programmes to change the situation of the poor, Micro-credit
has proved very successful. The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh
alone lends to two million people. By reviewing the experience
of Bangladesh, the country most closely associated with pioneering
Micro-credit programmes, the book asks critical questions
potentially overlooked in the rush to repeat the success of
these ventures in other countries.
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