Crises, poverty and gender inequality - current themes and issues, Shelley Feldman from survival strategies to transformation strategies - women's needs and structural adjustment, Diane Elson women and the economic crisis in the Caribbean, Helen I. Safa and Peggy Antrobus the Mexican debit crisis - ...
Azizur Rahman Khan, Mahabub Hossain
It was shown in Chapter 2 that compared to the pre-independence period, the average standard of living fell sharply immediately after independence, but subsequently living standards grew significantly faster than in the period prior to independence. The average levels of real income per capita and r...
Geoffrey Wood, Iffath Anwar Sharif
Part I Overview: poverty and finance in Bangladesh - a new policy agenda, Iffath Sharif poverty and well-being - problems for poverty reduction in role of credit, Martin Greeley finance for the poor or poorest? - financial innovation, poverty and vulnerability, David Hulme and Paul Mosley the politi...
Mahfuz Kabir, Ruhul Salim, Nasser Al-Mawali
Shelagh A. Hefferman
An error correction model is used to capture the dynamics of British retail deposit and loan rate responses to changes in the central bank’s base rate. The test is conducted using a monthly series of interest rates for four generic retail banking products over the period 1986–93. The adjustment proc...
Jim Love, Ramesh Chandra
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the export‐led growth hypothesis for South Asia, a diverse region consisting of one large country, India, surrounded by a number of medium and small countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. Design/methodology/approach...
Mohammad Mohabbat Khan
The present state of governance in Bangladesh is evaluated here using the concept of governance, particularly good governance. Bangladesh shows all the symptoms of an underdeveloped polity. Democracy has not been institutionalized. Politics continues to be dominated by big money, goons and people wi...
Mohiuddin Alamgir
James D. Hamilton
I do not claim in this paper that the international gold standard was a principal cause of the Great Depression. Instead, I explore the events that allowed the world to slip deeper into depression despite the gold standard. The volatility of international short‐term capital flows surely contributed ...
Shamim Ahmed, M. Golam Mortaza
This paper empirically explores the present relationship between inflation and economic growth in the context of Bangladesh. Using annual data set on real GDP and CPI for the period of 1980 to 2005, an assessment of empirical evidence has been acquired through the co-integration and error correction...
David Bornstein
This book is the compelling story of the Grameen Bank, one of the most successful development organizations in the world. Founded by Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh in 1976, the Grameen Bank has extended small loans for self-employment to more than two million women villagers and has helped lift hundre...
Wahiduddin Mahmud, Sadiq Ahmed, Sandeep Mahajan
Bangladesh has in recent decades \n achieved reasonably rapid economic growth and significant \n progress in social development indicators despite many \n impediments: the desperate initial conditions after gaining \n independence, lack of resources, natural disasters, \n widespr...
Atif Mian, Ludwig Straub, Amir Sufi
This paper proposes a tractable framework to analyze fiscal space and the dynamics of government debt, with a possibly binding zero lower bound (ZLB) constraint. Without the ZLB, a greater primary deficit unambiguously raises debt. However, debt need not explode: When R < G -, where is the sensitivi...
Musleh ud Din
This paper examines the export-led growth hypothesis for the five largest economies of the South Asian region using a multivariate time-series framework. The South Asian countries present an interesting case study in view of their increasing outward orientation and adoption of export promotion polic...
Jalal U. Siddiki
The aim of this study is to estimate the demand for real broad (M2) money in Bangladesh using the most recently developed autoregressive distributed lag approach to cointegration analyses. The empirical results show that there is a unique cointegrated and stable long-run relationship among real per ...