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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Dust Jacket Included. Contents Foreword 1 Introduction 2 Education in Bangladesh 3 VAB efforts to improve education in rural Bangladesh 4 High school Dropout problems in Bangladesh 5 Purpose of the present study investigating effects of VAB programmes on Dropout rate 6 Methodology and data collection 7 Analysis of data 8 Findings and observations 9 Recommendations Annexures Index This study of ten high schools in rural Bangladesh assisted by a US based NGO Volunteers Association for Bangladesh VAB presents detailed data on the dropout rate in each class from VI to X over a period of six years The study follows students at Class VI through class X for two academic cycles ending in 2007 and 2008 to estimate dropout rate over the cycle Importantly the study also tries to identify the reasons for dropout through a survey of direct sources students teachers parents and community leaders and provides an integrated analysis from these perspectives Research reveals a trend of dropout starting at a slower pace of about 9 10 percent at Class VI rising slowly to Class IX and ending with a bang of around 60 to 70 percent at Class X Easy promotion from Class VI onwards and the ultimate realization of the students that they are unable to cope with the demands of taking the test exam at Class X or the nationwide SSC Exam and in many cases the inability to afford the exam fees may explain the reasons for this sudden rise in dropout at Class X The study confirms the prevailing views about the main reasons for dropout as being poverty and poverty related factors There is unanimity in this regard among all the direct sources surveyed There is also unanimity about higher dropout among girl students in rural Bangladesh confirming prevailing views about early marriage of girls household role of girls in life and lack of recognition for the need for their education The study reveals potential for reducing dropouts with coordinated efforts while dealing with the causes In this regard interventions such as VABs Scholarship and other programmes operating in Bangladesh since year 2000 with the aim of improving attendance at school of rural poor students It is believed to have contributed to the reduction of dropouts by at least ten percent in two academic cycles It is encouraging to note that the longer the school benefits from VAB scholarships and other complementary programmes the larger is the reduction in dropout rate in some schools by as much as thirty percent jacket 64 pp. tables, charts, photos (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Preface/Acronyms. 1. Introduction/Wahiduddin Mahmud. 2. Expanding microcredit outreach to reach the millennium development goals: some issues for attention/Muhammad Yunus. 3. Microcredit and poverty: new realities and strategic issues/Salehuddin Ahmed. 4. Microfinance in Bangladesh: emerging policy issues/Marilou Jane D. Uy. 5. Assessment of microcredit programme in Bangladesh: government sector/Dhiraj Kumar Nath. 6. Review of IFAD experience with rural credit in Bangladesh/Nigel Brett. 7. Donors' perspectives on interest rates/Frank Matsaert. 8. Microfinance in Nepal: experience of RMDC as an Apex Microfinance Organisation/Shankar Man Shrestha. 9. Updates of microcredit summit campaign: relevance to practitioners in Asia/D.S.K. Rao. 10. Future challenges facing the MFIs of Bangladesh: choice of target groups, Loan sizes and rate of interest/Rushidan Islam Rahman. 11. Microcredit: an alternative perspective on its dynamics in Bangladesh/Sajjad Zohir. 12. Microcredit and women's empowerment in Bangladesh/Simeen Mahmud. 13. Poverty and microfinance programmes: ASA's experience/Sohel Mahmud Sagar. 14. Rates of interest in the microcredit sector: comparing NGOs with commercial banks/Iqbal Ahmed. 15. BRAC's microfinance canvas: financial services and strategic linkages/Shabbir Ahmed. 16. Sustainability and poverty outreach: trade-off issues/Martin Greeley. Index. "Microcredit has been accepted as an effective tool for poverty alleviation and as an approach to development. Access to credit has been recognized as a human right. In this context, the book reviews the performance of microcredit programmes; identifies and analyses the issues facing the microcredit sector; and suggests policies and programmes to deal with the issues to further strengthen the role of microcredit for poverty alleviation. …

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. According to Census 2011, population of India increased from 103 crore in 2001 to 121 crore in 2011, an increase of 18 crore or 17.6 percent. Out of 121 crore, 62.4 crore (51.6 percent) were males and 58.6 crore (48.4) were females. Women play a critical role in the family which is the basic unit of a society. Family is a strong force for social cohesion and integration and as such should be strengthened. The inadequate support to women and insufficient protection to their respective families affect society as a whole and undermines efforts to achieve gender equality. In different cultural, political and social systems, various forms of family exist and the rights, capabilities and responsibilities of family members must be respected. The extent of empowerment of women in the national hierarchy is determined largely by three factors: their economic, social and political identity. These factors are deeply intertwined and interlinked with many cross cutting linkages. However, if efforts in even one dimension remain absent or weak, outcomes generated by the other components are adversely affected. Women can be truly empowered only when all the three factors are simultaneously addressed and made compatible with each other. In other words, for holistic empowerment of women to happen, economic, social and political aspects impacting women's lives must converge effectively. A growing body of work shows that entrepreneurial behaviour is dependent on social and economic factors. For example, countries with healthy and diversified labour markets or stronger safety nets show a more favourable ratio of opportunity-driven rather than necessity-driven women entrepreneurs. This volume contains 14 scholarly papers which provide deep insights into various aspects of women entrepreneurship in India.…

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Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Paperback Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition - Card Covers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 196 pages. Sustained reflections by some of the world's most celebrated thinkers about how to defuse the terrorism an excessive interventions against it.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region is socially vibrant, economically promising and geo-politically volatile. From the 1973 oil crisis to the Arab Spring and from the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) to the Islamic States of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) crisis, the region has seen it all. India's engagement with the region has been historically evolving. India shares strong cultural ties with the countries of the region. The trade and diplomatic relations between India and WANA countries are also witnessing an evolving trend. The Persian Gulf states have already been termed as our extended neighbourhood, while most of the African countries are becoming preferred destinations for Indian investments. In fact, India and WANA countries are mutually indispensable for each other in terms of natural resources, sea routes, maritime security, geo-economic co-operation, potential markets and participation in global value chains. Given this backdrop, the present volume contains 11 well-researched papers, authored by experts in the field of India's foreign policy. (jacket). …

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Changing facets of entrepreneurship development/S S Khanka. 2. Entrepreneurial success in small and medium enterprises/Mohammad Saleh Jahur and Md. Abu Taher. 3. Entrepreneurship in informal cross border trade/R.K.P.G Singha. 4. Post-liberalisation, entrepreneurship in pharmaceutical business/Doneti Sivaji. 5. Problems and prospects of entrepreneurship/Sandeep Kumar Singh. 6. New land use policy (NLUP) beneficiaries in petty trade/Lalhmingliana Renthlei and Lalropuii. 7. Entrepreneurship skills among the information professionals of college libraries/Angom Jeevan Singh and Pumima Takhellambam. 8. Entrepreneurship education of cluster industry/Rupam Roy. 9. Entrepreneurship and ICT in developing countries/Hassan Mahmoud Hasan. 10. Working capital and liquidity management in Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSMEs)/Moirangthem Biren Singh and N. Tejmani Singh. 11. Role of corporate houses in developing entrepreneurship/Bidhu Kanti Das. 12. Remittances and micro enterprise development/Sultana B.A. Mazumder. 13. Tourism industry and entrepreneurship development/Hedayatullah Choudhary. 14. Tourism entrepreneurship/R.R. Blesson Hirango and Robita Sorokhaibam. 16. Entrepreneurship, employment generation and tourism/Thrinadha Rao B and Venkata Rao Y. 17. Entrepreneurship development in the Indian Rice Mill Sector/Amir Jafar, Partha Sarar and Anjan Kumar Ghosh. 18. Entrepreneurship: global opportunities and challenges/Trailokya Deka. Index. Entrepreneurship has been considered the backbone of economic development. It has been well-established that the level of economic growth of a region, to a large extent, depends on the level of entrepreneurial activities in that region. The myth that entrepreneurs are born, no more holds good. Rather, it is well-recognised now that the entrepreneurs can be created and nurtured through appropriate interventions in the form of entrepreneurship development programmes. In the present era of liberalisation, privatisation and globalization along with ongoing IT revolution, capable entrepreneurs are making use of the opportunities emerging from the evolving scenario. However, a large segment of the population, particularly in the industrially backward regions/rural areas generally lags behind in taking advantage of these opportunities. Therefore, there is a need to provide skill development and entrepreneurship development training to such people in order to bring them to mainstream of economic growth. Entrepreneurship is the quality of being an entrepreneur, i.e. one who undertakes an enterprise. The term puts emphasis on the risk and effort taken by individuals who both own and manage a business, and on the innovations resulting from their pursuit of economic success. This volume contains 18 papers, authored by experts in the field of entrepreneurship and related areas, which provide theoretical and empirical insights into various aspects of entrepreneurship development. (jacket).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. XXI, 418 pages ; 24 cm Contents: About the Editors. About the Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Supervision of Islamic Banks and Basel: The Regulatory Challenge (Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim). Part 1. The Nature of Risks in Islamic Banking. 2. Banking and the Risk Environment (Hennie van Greuning and Zamir Iqbal). 3. Risk Characteristics of Islamic Products: Implications for Risk Measurement and Supervision (Dr. V. Sundararajan). 4. Capital Structure and Risk in Islamic Financial Services (Wafik Grais and Anoma Kulathunga). 5. Inherent Risk: Credit and Market Risks (Abdullah Haron and John Lee Hin Hock). 6. Operational Risk Exposures of Islamic Banks (Simon Archer and Abdullah Haron). 7. Law and Islamic Finance: An Interactive Analysis (Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo and Michael J.T. McMillen). 8. Supervisory Implications of Islamic Finance in the Current Regulatory Environment (Hari Bhambra). Part 2. Capital Adequacy. 9. Risk and the Need for Capital (Charles Freeland and Steven Friedman). 10. Measuring Risk for Capital Adequacy: The Issue of Profit-sharing Investment Accounts (Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim). 11. Measuring Operational Risk (Elisabeth Jackson-Moore). 12. Supervisory Implications of Islamic Banking: A Supervisor's Perspective (Toby Fiennes). Part 3. Securitization and Capital Markets. 13. Securitization in Islamic Finance (Abdulkader Thomas). 14. The Role of Capital Markets in Ensuring Islamic Financial Liquidity (Stella Cox). 15. Regulating Islamic Capital Markets (Robert Gray and Arshad Ismail). Part 4. Corporate Governance. 16. Corporate Governance for Banks (Hamid Yunis). 17. Specific Corporate Governance Issues in Islamic Banks (Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim). 18. Corporate Governance and Supervision: Basel Pillar 2 (Chizu Nakajima and Barry A.K. Rider). 19. Transparency and Market Discipline: Basel Pillar 3 (Daud Abdullah, David Vicary). Part 5. Conclusion. 20. Human Resource Management of Islamic Banks: Responses to Conceptual and Technical Challenges (Volker Nienhaus). 21. Concluding Remarks (Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim). Index. …

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India?s economic growth But in a country like India growth is not enough Who benefits from the new growth regime and can it significantly improve the conditions of livelihood for India?s 800 million people with incomes below 2 a day This edited volume looks at international policy regimes and their national adoption under strategic conditions of economic crisis and coercion and within longer-term structural changes in the power calculus of global capitalism The contributors examine long-term growth tendencies poverty and employment rates at the national regional and local levels in India; the main growth centers; the areas and people left out; the advantages and deficiencies of the existing policy regime and alternative economic policies for India 336 pp.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. xvi, 320 pages Contents: Introduction: Shari'a and Islamic Family Law: Transition and TransformationPart I: Central Asia and the Caucasus1. Social, Cultural and Historical BackgroundPart II: East and Central Africa1. Social, Cultural and Historical Background2. Legal Profiles - Kenya and TanzaniaPart III: Horn of Africa1. Social, Cultural and Historical Background2. Legal Profiles - Ethiopia, Somalia, and SudanPart IV: Middle East1. Social, Cultural and Historical Background2. Legal Profiles - Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE and YemenPart V: North Africa1. Social, Cultural and Historical Background2. Legal Profiles - Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and TunisiaPart VI: Southern Africa1. Social, Cultural and Historical BackgroundPart VII: South Asia1. Social, Cultural and Historical Background2. Legal Profiles - Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri LankaPart VIII: Southeast Asia1. Social, Cultural and Historical Background2. Legal Profiles - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and SingaporePart IX: West Africa1. Social, Cultural and Historical Background2. Legal Profiles - Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. I. Overview: 1. Overview and introduction to the volume/Sadiq Ahmed. II. The macro-economy: 2. Contemporary macroeconomic issues and challenges/Ahsan Mansur. 3. Capital markets issues: lessons of experience and the way forward/Ifty Islam. III. Trade and regional integration: 4. Trade policy developments and the way forward/Zaidi Sattar. 5. The economics of transit for Bangladesh development/Sadiq Ahmed. IV. The real economy: 6. Growth and employment strategies for Bangladesh/Sadiq Ahmed. 7. Managing the urban transition in Bangladesh/Sarwar Jahan. V. Poverty and human development: 8. Poverty and inequality in Bangladesh/Selim Raihan and Bazlul Haque Khondker. 9. Human development progress and prospects/Sayema Haque Bidisha. Index. Bangladesh has shown a lot of promise and resilience by pushing ahead with the national development agenda, reflected in declining poverty and rising economic growth. However events over the past 12 months suggest that the country's macro economy was under strain. It is therefore imperative that the government should take quick actions to current the situation. While the restoration of macroeconomic balance is an immediate priority Bangladesh continue to remain a low income developing economy with a substantial long term development agenda. Notwithstanding the encouraging progress with poverty reduction, there are still some 47 million poor people in Bangladesh. The incidence of poverty is much larger in the rural area as compared with that of the urban areas. Poverty incidence also varies by divisions. The experience of Bangladesh also shows substantial income inequality that has grown over time. On the human development front Bangladesh has done well out performing most South Asian countries in improving a range of human development indicators. Yet this progress is from a low base. The next round agenda for human development that involves quality of education, moving to tertiary and technical education, developing skills, improving maternal health, improving the quality of health care, and stabilizing the growth of population in line with the country's carrying capacity remains to be addressed. (jacket).…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. The nature of Muslim knowledge concerning the West through travel accounts makes for fascinating reading. The eighteenth-century encounters of Munshi Ihtisamuddin and Mirza Abu Taleb Khan, embedded in their travelogues, however, seem very distant and less urgent. With Syed Ahmed, however, begins an entirely new phase with his interplay between Muslims and the West, on the one hand, and between Islam and Christianity, on the other. Even though his portrait of England is sometimes facile, his account of his travels opens the door to new questions, particularly because this was the period when the relations between Europeans and Indians were at the centre of many debates. Consequently, passages in the Musafiran-i Landan introducing 'Europe' and 'England' are historically important enough to merit attention, since they are not used merely as fulsome descriptions of Western society's advances, but also contain the germ of the justification for an Anglo-Muslim rapprochement. This makes the Musafiran-i Landan an important source for the construction of the history of an era. Its English translation, the first ever to be undertaken in full, makes it accessible to those who have no knowledge of Urdu. Although several accounts of 'India and West' are available, A Voyage to Modernism is of special significance. Set apart from his later endeavours like the Tahzibul Akhlaq and Asar-al Sanadid, it is the Syed's impressions caught in A Voyage to Modernism that mattered to all those who knew anything about his standing in public life and his stature as an enlightened reformer in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This eminently readable translation is enriched by editorial interventions by translators and editors of the work, and supported by rare archival photographs.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: I. In theory: 1. Patterns of Conflict and Stability in the Asian Region from a Long-term Perspective/William R. Thompson. 2. A Necessary Ghost Hunt? West European Integration in East Asian Regionalism Studies/Zhang Zhenjiang. 3. Globalisation and the Rise of Asia: Regional Cooperation to Sustain Economic Stability in Asia/Niklas Swanström. II. Rising China: 4. The Rise of China, the Rise of India, and the Changing Geopolitics of Asia: Contending Perspectives on India-China Relations/Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang. 5. The United States, the Rise of China, and US-Indian Relations/Robert J. Art. 6. Challenges of Rising China: A New Cold War or Neo- Imperialism/Masako Ikegami. 7. Realist and Pragmatic Elements in China's Grand Strategy: Assessment of China's Relations with Japan, Taiwan and India/Mumin Chen. III. Regional Snapshots: 8. Russia and Geopolitics of East Asia/Alexander Lukin. 9. Iranian-American Relations and the Future Security Architecture in Western Asia/Arshin Adib-Moghaddam. 10. Security for Western Asia: Building a Cooperation Framework among Turkey, Iran and the Arabs/Paul Salem. 11. The East Asia Summit and the Regional Security Architecture/Joseph Chinyong Liow. IV. Widening the Security Ambit: 12. Technology, Security and State Development in East Asia and India/Tai Ming Cheung. 13. Energy Security and Asian Regional Architecture/Xia Liping. 14. Towards an Architecture of a Global Disasters Management Regime: A Road Map/Yaacov Y.I. Vertzberger. 15. The Geopolitics of Himalayan-Tibetan Glacier Melt/Syed Iqbal Hasnain. 16. Himalayan Hydrology and Hydropolitics/Uttam Kumar Sinha. V. Closer Home: 17. US Policy towards South Asia/Sumit Ganguly. 18. Indo-Pak Relations and the Balance of Emotions/Prakash Menon. 19. How is India Managing its Asian Challenge?/Arvind Gupta. An Indian View on a Changing Asia/Shivshankar Menon. Index. The volume contains contributions by leading Asian analysts and Asia watchers on the theme of prospects for Asian integration. It discusses regionalism at the continental level and investigates overarching trends. It focuses on Asia's 'rise' and the key factors shaping the Asian regional order. The volume also provides valuable perspectives on Asia's sub-regions. Another salient feature of this volume is its coverage of increasingly significant non-traditional issues in the Asian context. (jacket).…

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Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z: 264 pages, 266 illustrations - From Iranians in Los Angeles to Assyrians in Sweden and Palestinians in Tokyo, this book highlights the diverse young and old diaspora communities of the Middle East and North Africa living all around the world. Drawing from the more than ten-year archive of Brownbook magazine, the book offers extensive coverage of the contemporary culture of this region and its diaspora.…

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 192 pages, 160 color illustrations - This publication brings together the writing of preeminent scholars and commentators using the genre of medieval advice literature as a starting point to discuss fate and fortune versus governance, advice for female nobility, and an Indian television drama as a form of translation of statecraft. The illustrated essays are accompanied by an interview with Slavs and Tatars.…

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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English and Arabic. 112 p. articles in English; 183 p. articles in Arabic. Research in Islamic civilisation. Outlook for the coming decade. Proceedings of the International Seminar held on 26-29 September 1988 at IRCICA, Istanbul, Turkey. Preface and introduction by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu. …

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Second Edition. Contents PrefaceSyed Anwar Husain ForewordAM Sharafuddin I History politics society and culture 1 Origin and development of Mughal DhakaAbdul Karim 2 Physical growth of Dhaka CityAM Chowdhury and Shabnam Faruqui 3 Commercial and industrial aspects of Dhak 720 pp. maps, illus (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Vol. I. Politics society administration. Vol. II. Economy and culture. Vol. III. Urbanization and urban development. 400 Years of Capital Dhaka and Beyond Volume 1, is a part of a three volume anthology on Dhaka, which is among the many publications being brought out by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh to celebrate the 400th anniversary of capital Dhaka. It deals with the politics, society and administration of capital Dhaka during the years 1608-2008. All these aspects of Dhaka have been narrated in eighteen articles written by distinguished scholars on the subject. The first articles in the book so to say as a curtain raiser touches briefly upon the history of pre-Mughal Dhaka on the basis of epigraphic sources. This is followed by the others dealing with the detailed history of capital Dhaka during the last 400 years with special reference to politics, society, administration and urban life of the city. 400 Years of Capital Dhaka and Beyond: Economy and Culture, Volume II is a compilation of essays on a wide range of topics relating to the economy and culture of Dhaka for the last four hundred years of its existence as a capital city intermittently though. The economic and cultural history of Dhaka has been discussed in these essays, each under a specific chapter, with as much information as can be gleaned briefly to give a cohesiveness of the subject-matter with a single volume. Although the volume includes as many topics as may be required to publish a book complete by itself on the economic and cultural history of Dhaka covering four centuries, it may not be as complete as one may expect. The history of Dhaka is so colourful and fascinating that one may think of many more topics for inclusion in this volume. Because of the limitations of space and due to time-constraint even such interesting subjects as food habits and local customs have been left out more so because these have been taken up in other publications under the programme called Celebration of 400 Years of Capital Dhaka through Scholarly and Development Works. 400 Years of Capital Dhaka and Beyond. The present volume is the final volume and has been titled Urbanization and urban Development of Capital Dhaka. In this volume there are twenty-seven articles written by distinguished urban specialists, historians and urban planners. This particular volume traces the physical growth of capital Dhaka during the last 400 years and discusses various aspects of urbanization and urbanism of capital Dhaka. In these articles there are stories that are heartening and cheerful and others that are very depressing showing the complete absence of serious city planning by generations of city administrators and politicians in the past and also at the present. (jacket).…

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