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Governance at Crossroads: Insights from Bangladesh
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Governance at Crossroads: Insights from Bangladesh, strives to bridge the gap between assumptions of western theories and shortcomings of local practices. The book is an outcome of an International Conference on 40 Years of Bangladesh: Retrospect and Future Prospects held in Dhaka on 26-28 November, 2011. It was organised by the Insitute of Governance Studies (IGS) (Now BIGD), BRAC University, in collaboration with the Center for Development Studies (CDS), University of Bath, UK to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Independence of Bangladesh. The various chapters of this book scrutinise governance reforms, administrative changes, theorotical debates, political trends, and related issues in Bangladesh such as poverty alleviation, decentratlization, participation, sutainability, urbanisation, migration, rural development etc. The different writers in this book try to identify major challenges and find future prospects for the good governance agenda in the context of ground realities of Bangladesh.