Assesses the status of women in Bangladesh by analysing the dynamics of female participation in labour force and … women’s work in Bangladesh. Although the bulk of the female labour force is engaged in self-employment activities in the … suggestive of an improvement in the status of women in Bangladesh. …

Catalogues the demographic changes in Bangladesh during the period 1975-2000 and examines how they relate to key socio …-dependency ratio, female-male ratio, longevity, fertility, mortality and mean age at first marriage. Bangladesh has made significant … between Bangladesh’s demographic changes and selected socio-economic indicators namely, its per capita GDP, female labour …

particular attention to India and Bangladesh, some of the economic and other reasons for this lack-lustre performance are … tourist services, currency restrictions. Now that India, and to some extent, Bangladesh have embarked on economic reforms to … and Bangladesh, the government has played a major role in the provision of tourist services. This not only includes the …

Provides a sketch of Bangladesh’s socio-economic performance in the light of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals …. After providing some background on these goals and on Bangladesh, this article considers trends in the incidence of poverty … and hunger in Bangladesh, access to education and gender equality in Bangladesh, child mortality and maternal health, the …

Empirical studies on the impact of women’s paid jobs on their empowerment and welfare in the Bangladesh context are … that women’s workforce participation in Bangladesh has increased across-the-board. Besides, none of these studies has made … empowerment on the basis of survey data from the two largest cities in Bangladesh. While the generic assessment indicates that …

After providing some general background on developments in Bangladesh’s economy, the article indicates the nature of … international political pressures, as represented by the Washington consensus, put on Bangladesh to adopt market-oriented reforms …. The sequencing and pattern of Bangladesh’s market reforms and their consequences for its external balance are then …

Bangladesh has experienced rising GDP and rising per capita incomes now for at least three decades. This article … considers the application to Bangladesh of Environmental Kuznets Curve relationships and applies other macro-methods of … assessing the relationship between economic growth and the environment to Bangladesh’s situation. The consequences of Bangladesh …

Purpose – To provide and assess trends on the status of women in Bangladesh in terms of key macro level indicators …. Findings – The study finds evidence of growing commercialisation of women's work in Bangladesh. Although most women in the … indicate an improvement in women's status in Bangladesh. Research limitations/implications – The suggested relationship between …