Anne Marie Goetz
Managing Development in Women's Interests The Research and Its Context Gender, Poverty and Credit Programmes for Women in Bangladesh Pioneers or Outlaws? A Profile of Women Development Agents Local Heroes? How Field Workers Determine Policy Outcomes Managing Organizational Change The Gendered Organi...
Prema-chandra Athukorala
This three-volume set brings together a comprehensive selection of papers on development policy making and economic performance in the five major economies in South Asia – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka – during the past half a century of the post colonial era.
Gladys López-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson
South Asia is in the midst of a demographic transition. For the next three decades, the growth of the region’s working age population will far outpace the growth of dependents. Close to one million individuals will enter the workforce every month. This large, economically active population can incre...
Ross Bassett
Aligning India in the Cold War EraIndian Technical Elites, the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and Computing in India and the United States Ross Bassett (bio) In July 1963, a chartered DC-7 landed at a military airbase in Kanpur, India, a large but unremarkable city on the Ganges River, in...
Tercan Baysan, Arvind Panagariya, Nihal Pitigala
"The authors examine the economic case for the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) Agreement signed on January 6, 2004 by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. They start with a detailed analysis of the preferential trading arrangements in South Asia to look at the ...
Andréa Menefee Singh, Anita Kelles-Viitanen
Introduction - Andr[ac]ea Menefee Singh and Anita Kelles-Viitanen PART ONE: THE NATURE, CONTEXT AND IDEOLOGY OF HOME-BASED WORK The Invisibility of Home-Based Work - Ela Bhatt The Case of Piece Rate Workers In India Economic Contribution of Women to the Household Budget - Zarina Bhatty A Case Study ...
K. G. Karmakar
PART ONE: RURAL CREDIT: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS Introduction The Role of Credit in Rural Development Evolution and Growth of the Rural Credit Delivery System Credit Recycling and the Problem of Overdues Agricultural Credit Review Committee, 1989 Narasimhaqm Committee, 1991 and Gupta Committee, 1998 R...
Mahabub Hossain
Xiaobo Zhang, Shahidur Rashid, Kaikaus Ahmad, Akhter Ahmed
Using data from multiple sources, we show that the real wages in Bangladesh, particularly in rural areas and for female workers, have accelerated in recent years. Real wage escalation is likely the result of a combination of more job opportunities in the nonfarm sector, especially in the manufacturi...
Preface 1. Home & School 2. College 3. Among the Pathans 4. Back home in Delhi 5. The Delhi School of Economics 6. British Guyana 7. The Institute of Economic Growth 8. The Prime Minister's Office 9. The Bangladesh Crisis 10. Mrs Gandhi, Bhutto, and the Simla Agreement 11. The 'Emergency' 12. The Ta...
Introduction Leela Fernandes Part 1: Historical Formations 1. Gendered Nationalism: From Women to Gender and Back Again?Mrinalini Sinha 2. Construction of Gender in the Late nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century in Muslim Bengal: The writings of Nawab Faizunessa Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hoss...
Fan Zhang
Electricity shortages are among the biggest barriers to South Asia’s \ndevelopment. Some 255 million people—more than a quarter of the world’s off-grid population—live in South Asia, and millions of households and firms that are connected experience frequent and long hours of blackouts. Ineffici...
Munir Quddus, Salim Rashid
Mohammad Kamal Uddin
Rehman Sobhan, Md Emon Ahmed