Participation enhances democracy and at the same time allows people to decide their own fate. A renewed concern with rights, power and difference in debates about participation in development has focused greater attention on the institutions at the interface between publics, providers and policy...

The privatization of state owned enterprises (SOEs) emerged as a prominent feature of industrial restructuring in Bangladesh. Privatization was the part of economic reform program of every government except the socialistic government of Mujib. Mounting losses and persisting inefficiencies during...

‘People’s Participation’ in community development is a much discussed issue. The high and rapidly growing population in Bangladesh is placing great strain on all resources. Increasing people’s voice and influence in the social forestry policy in Bangladesh is believed to be an effective...

‘People’s Participation’ in community development is a much discussed issue. The high and rapidly growing population in Bangladesh is placing great strain on all resources. Increasing people’s voice and influence in the social forestry policy in Bangladesh is believed to be an effective...

While the extent of successful implementation of policy is very low in Bangladesh, the ban on two-stroke engine vehicles in Dhaka was an exception. The policy was one which involved a large amount of change as well as high goal consensus. It got the support from all arenas, including from those...

People’s participation is involved in community development as a very important concept. Increasing people’s voice and influence in the Social Forestry policy in Bangladesh is believed to be an effective way of improving the condition of the forest sector as it ensures access to services to...

The main role of local government institutions in any country is to implement state policies. In Bangladesh, local government was not successful as an implementation organization of Social Forestry (SF) policy of early 1980s though the central government and the donors were very much interested...

People’s participation in the Social Forestry (SF) policy in Bangladesh is believed to be an effective way of improving the condition of the forest sector by increasing access to services of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. But 'patron-client relations' is a dominant phenomenon of...

This paper seeks to analyse the concept of privatization. It also deals with different institutional arrangement and policies of privatization. This paper also identifies some barriers to privatization and directs the way how to solve them