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...
Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman
Meghna Sabharwal, Evan M. Berman
Public Administration in South Asia, Meghna Sabharwal and Evan M. Berman India History and Context of Public Administration in India, R.K. Mishra Public Policy Processes and Citizen Participation in India, Dolly Arora Intergovernmental Relations in India, Rekha Saxena Public Service Ethics in India,...
Ishtiaq Jamil, Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman, Syeda Lasna Kabir, M. Mahfuzul Haque
Ishtiaq Jamil, Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman, Sk. Tawfique M. Haque
Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman
Harald Baldersheim, Ishtiaq Jamil, Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman
Electoral participation in Bangladesh varies substantially from region to region. Why is this so? The regional variation offers an opportunity to test theories of democratic development and participation. Theories of modernisation suggest that socio-economic development is important for democratic p...
Mushtaq Khan, Mitchell Watkins, Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman, Sumaiya Khair et al.
Climate adaptation projects in Bangladesh have been widely affected by high levels of corruption and resource leakage. However, the dual-use characteristics of climate adaptation investments create incentives for influential households to monitor projects in their own interest. We theorize that thes...
Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman
Ishtiaq Jamil, Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman, Sk. Tawfique M. Haque
This special issue explores and analyzes governance and policy issues in South, Southeast, and East Asia. 1 The nine papers in this issue were presented at a similarly titled conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2012. 2 The authors map governance challenges and analyze its current trends from the pers...
Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman
Over the last two decades Bangladesh experimented with a series of new models/ approaches and institutional frameworks for addressing poverty and rural development. Although the intensity of poverty has been arrested to some extent, social disparity and inequality remained persistently the same. The...
M. I. Mafia, F. M. Aminuzzaman, Mohammad Salahuddin Mahmood Chowdhury, J. F. Tanni
There are many hot spots in tropical moist deciduous forest region where wood decay fungi grow naturally. An investigation was carried out to collect, identify and preserve wood decay Ganoderma spp. on the basis of morphological characteristics from Pabna, Dhaka and Rajshahi under tropical moist dec...
Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman, Rizwan Khair, Ipshita Basu
Governance at Crossroads: Insights from Bangladesh, strives to bridge the gap between assumptions of western theories and shortcomings of local practices. The various chapters of this book scrutinise governance reforms, administrative changes, theoretical debates, political trends, and related issue...
Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman
Local Government (LG) is a much talked about institution in Bangladesh. Local Government Institutions (LGIs) has strong Constitutional and legal framework. Political leaderships across the regimes have highlighted the need, importance and significance of LG in the broader political ad administrative...
Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman
Bangladesh has recently experienced a number of administrative, institutional, structural and policy reforms which have attempted to recast the modalities of the public delivery system and address the perennial issues of “efficiency, effectiveness and productivity” in the public administration syste...