John Adams, Frank Raymond
In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist, won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus’s key innovation was to create loan circles, usually of five women, who used social suasion to ensure high repayment rates and sustain their creditworthiness. This institutional structure helps resolve a number of inf...
M. Mahruf C. Shohel, Frank Banks
To promote significant pedagogical change, the most successful teacher education programmes for the global south happen in the school context. This paper is based on a pre-pilot intervention study of an international education development programme in Bangladesh. Technology enhanced learning, in thi...
M. Mahruf C. Shohel, Frank Banks
This paper explores the English in Action (EIA) intervention in Bangladesh and explores how the school-based support systems impact on classroom practice in Underprivileged Children's Educational Programs (UCEP) Schools. It presents evidence to demonstrate how in-school training helps teachers’ prof...
Gordon McGregor Reid, Kevin C. Zippel
This volume concerns the current global extinction crisis for amphibians and the coordinated response of zoos and aquariums around the world, and it is the first International Zoo Yearbook devoted in large part to amphibians [but see IZY Volume 9 (1969), Volume 19 (1979) and Volume 28 (1989)]. These...
Frank Banks, John Williams
Although ‘design and technology’ as a named school subject is specific to England, a practical area of the school curriculum concerned with pupils designing and making products that solve real problems within a variety of contexts is common in different countries. However, as in England, they also d...
Frank Banks
At 900 persons per square kilometre, Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries of the world and is similar to many developing countries in that nearly half the population is under 19 years of age. On average 41% of the population do not complete Primary Education, completion rates be...
Frank Banks
Bangladesh, a semi-tropical country which lies in the north-eastern part of South Asia bordered by India and Myanmar (Burma), is one of the largest deltas in the world. Its land is consequently very low-lying and crossed by three great rivers. The Ganges, the Brahmaputra, and the Meghna all flow sou...
Rezwanul Huque Khan, Md. Ziaul Haque, S Ahmed, M Agoraki et al.
in Bangladesh have shown relatively low financial performance than most of the private commercial banks (PCBs) in the country. While several issues may have contributed to such low performance by SCBs, this study aims to explore whether and how (if any) compliance with Corporate Governance issued fr...
Shahi Md. Tanvir Alam
Shrimp is an important export commodity in Bangladesh. The districts in which shrimp cultivation occurred are Bagerhat, Khulna and Satkhira in Khulna Division and Cox's Bazar, Chittagong and Noakhali in Chittagong Division. Out of our total quantity of shrimp exported from the country during 2001 (4...
Jophus Anamuah‐Mensah, Frank Banks, Robert Moon, Freda Wolfenden
This chapter synthesises established critiques of existing teacher professional development (pre-service and continuing professional development) to suggest that the institutions created to prepare and develop teachers in the last century will be inadequate to meet the large scale needs of the twent...
S M Nazmuz Sakib
Farhad Mazhar was born on August 9, 1947 in Noakhali, during the final days of British India and the partition that created East Pakistan. This landscape of communal violence and ecological richness shaped his lifelong skepticism toward the state and his deep engagement with the syncretic Baul and F...
S M Nazmuz Sakib
Farhad Mazhar was born on August 9, 1947 in Noakhali, during the final days of British India and the partition that created East Pakistan. This landscape of communal violence and ecological richness shaped his lifelong skepticism toward the state and his deep engagement with the syncretic Baul and F...
Arvinlucy Onditi, Frankline Otiende Awuor
Access to finance remain a major obstacle for entrepreneurs in developing countries particularly those in informal food businesses. Globally, SMEs face significant financial gap, pushing many to adopt alternative innovative financial models (IFMS) in the food system. These include Community currency...
Robyn Smith
Heading into the August 2024 general election, the Fyles ALP Government is facing growing community unrest about the levels of youth crime, property damage, injury and death. Protests spread from Alice Springs to Darwin where six northern suburbs electorates traditionally determine electoral fortune...
Solomon Caulker
Regulators of financial institutions in most parts of the globe are making impressive achievement in terms of regulating the behavior of banks on the level of risk they can take in making investment decisions. Professionals in the finance industry have made a huge impact in trying to regulate these ...