Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman, Harald Baldersheim, Ishtiaq Jamil
The study assesses the efficacy of the Village Phone (VP) scheme in ameliorating the 'information poverty' of the villages that have obtained access to mobile phones in Bangladesh. More specifically, the study has sought to describe the ways in which the VP is operated, how the service is utilised a...
Ishtiaq Jamil
(2002). Administrative Culture in Bangladesh: Tensions between Tradition and Modernity. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 93-125.
Hasan Muhammad Baniamin, Ishtiaq Jamil, Steinar Askvik
The existing literature on institutional trust leads us to expect that institutional trust is determined by institutional performance. In the context of three South Asian countries (Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka), we find the opposite – that despite poor performance of the civil service, there is ...
Pranab Kumar Panday, Ishtiaq Jamil
This article analyzes the dynamics of the conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh. This study argues that violations of human rights by law enforcement agencies and Bangali settlers against indigenous people continue even after the signing of the 1997 peace accord. Furthermore, p...
Steinar Askvik, Ishtiaq Jamil
Ishtiaq Jamil, Pranab Kumar Panday
This article provides an overview of the state of inter-organizational coordination and corruption in urban policy implementation in Bangladesh. Based on a study carried out in one of the seven large cities in Bangladesh, the available data illustrate that there are major coordination problems betwe...
Dhiman Kumar Sarker, Nafize Ishtiaque Hossain, Insan Arafat Jamil
In the traditional attendance system of Bangladesh, the teachers either call the name or identity number of the students to which the students respond or pass the attendance sheet to the students to sign. With the increase of the number of students in the last two decades, the difficulties in attend...
Pranab Kumar Panday, Ishtiaq Jamil
Ishtiaq Jamil, Pranab Kumar Panday
The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord, signed in 1997, promised to end a long-standing armed conflict and grant a host of benefits to the indigenous people occupying the south-eastern region of Bangladesh. After a decade the accord has yet to bear fruit; it remains unimplemented and the suffering,...
Ishtiaq Jamil, Steinar Askvik
Ishtiaq Jamil, Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman, Syeda Lasna Kabir, M. Mahfuzul Haque
Hasan Muhammad Baniamin, Ishtiaq Jamil
Abstract This study explores the relationship between gender representation in bureaucracy and perceived performance and fairness. It uses data from a survey experiment that was part of a national representative survey conducted in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. In the experiment, respondents wer...
Ishtiaq Jamil, Hasan Muhammad Baniamin
Abstract Motivation Most studies of the normative roots of political trust argue that they stem from policy performance rather than from cultural orientation. That sits at odds with the observation that institutional trust—that is, citizens’ confidence in public agencies—is high in Bangladesh and Ne...
Ishtiaq Jamil, Hasan Muhammad Baniamin
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate, firstly, to what extent has Nepal’s bureaucracy become representative in terms of reflecting the country’s demographic composition, and secondly, has the bureaucracy become more responsive to citizens since the implementation of a quota policy in ...
Ishtiaq Jamil, Steinar Askvik