Development economist Jean Dreze Tuesday expressed concern over India’s tardy economic growth, which lagged behind neighbours like Nepal and Bangladesh in vital sectors.
Dreze was delivering the ninth I.G. Khan Memorial Lecture on “Hunger and the Indian Enigma” at the Kennedy Auditorium of Aligarh Muslim University.
Referring to the economic growth in south Asia, he said India lagged behind its neighbours “in education, health and food and availability of medicine to the people despite the country’s economic viability in terms of GDP growth”.
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Women’s full potential to contribute to economic and social progress is not yet maximized, according to a book on gender equality and the labor market launched at ADB’s headquarters in Manila, Philippines. Many people still think that women are only capable of taking care of the family and managing households — but there’s nothing farther from the truth nowadays.
For Asia to realize and unleash its potential as an economic and development powerhouse, changing that traditional mindset and looking at women as important development stakeholders and providing them with decent and better employment opportunities is absolutely vital, according to the Asian Development Bank. Women in Bangladesh, where the Asian Development Bank funds employment and t...
The bilateral relations between Oman and Bangladesh are set to touch new heights, said Sheikh Sekander Ali, Bangladesh’s Ambassador to the Sultanate. Speaking on the occasion of his country’s 43rd independence anniversary here yesterday, Ali said: “Following a Royal Decree in September 2012 for the establishment of a full-fledged embassy of the Sultanate in Bangladesh, Oman’s Embassy was relocated to new independent premises in 2013.”
Moreover, early this month a four-member delegation of senior Omani officials from the Ministry of Manpower visited Bangladesh to exchange views about welfare of the Bangladeshi workers living in the Sulta...
In the race to attract and retain the most productive and talented workers, important lessons may lie in the garment factories of Vietnam and mines in Africa. Who would have thought that providing an on-site kindergarten for worker’s children would reduce turnover rates by a third, generating an immediate financial return to Vietnamese garment factory Nalt Enterprise? Who would have thought maintenance costs would decrease when a global mining company put women in the driver’s seat of heavy trucks at Rio Tinto?
Women are 40 percent of the global workforce and form the bulk of the workers in many industries including agribusiness, tourism and textiles. And yet we have preconceived notions that too often get in the way of realiz...
Mukhta Mollah, 19, is one of the 350 factory workers at Beauty Garments Pvt. Ltd. She earns $20 working eight hours or longer a day, six days a week. Although her salary may not amount to a lot, working in the factory has given her a measure of independence.
The garment factory workers toil for paltry wages. But such jobs have also afforded Bangladeshi girls a measure of independence in a traditional Muslim society.
Mukhta Mollah deftly smooths the red fabric and guides it through a whirling sewing machine. She sews side seams on women’s blouses bound for America. Eight hours a day or longer in this hot and sweaty factory. Six days a week.
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Strengthening the cultural connect with neighbouring Bangladesh, the Visva Bharati University at Santiniketan in West Bengal is in talks to set up an exclusive centre at the campus, an official said Thursday.
After centres were established by the governments of Japan and China at the campus, the varsity officials are chalking out plans for a proposed Bangladesh Bhavan following a visit from Bangladesh government officials this week.
"Yes we are discussing about the set-up. It will be primar...
