Bangladesh Studies

Microfinance, particularly microcredit, is recognized as one of the most important interventions to alleviate poverty in Bangladesh. It is now 27 years that non-government institutions have been providing microfinance services. It has grown both vertically and horizontally. In 2008, self provided information of 313 MFIs including Grameen Bank shows, a total of 16.690 branches across the country are providing financial services to the poor. This is the second publication of the joint collaboration of Institute of Microfinance (InM) and Credit and Development Forum (CDF).

Economic Analyses of Contemporary Issues in Bangladesh is a collection of studies by economists and other social scientists, working mostly on economic and social policies and issues in Bangladesh. This compilation of analytically well-grounded studies by established researchers covers a variety of topics such as economic growth patterns, regional convergence of per-capita income, micro-credits, natural resource management, household choice of water and sanitation facilities, capital markets, exchange rate policy, corruption, and transfer pricing by foreign investors.

Women, Bangladesh and International Security purports to do two things. Firstly, it is an attempt to relate the life and living of Bangladesh women with the domain called international security. Seldom is there an understanding that the women of Bangladesh are actively engaged in the organization and reproduction of international security. Secondly, it is a theoretical intervention to the debate as how best to understand the engendered relationship between the national and the international.

Reforming political and governance institutions is not a common issue during election time. The last time this issue dominated an election campaign in a first world country was in the early eighties with Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States. Thirty-six years after its birth, a Bangladesh caretaker government is facing the same issue. They are addressing it directly by instituting some useful reforms.