Development Issues of Bangladesh-III : Human Development and Quality of Life
Contents: Contributors. Preface. 1. A comparative analysis of socio-economic political indicators of Bangladesh vis-a-vis its four South Asian neighbours/M. Faizul Islam. 2. Socioeconomic and human aspects of development in Bangladesh/Anisul M. Islam. 3. Democratization, values and leadership/Zillur Rahman Khan. 4. Class and state in Bangladesh: political economy of authoritarian democracy/Habibul Haque Khondker. 5. Enhancing institutional capacity of public administration in Bangladesh: present state and future direction/Mohammad Mohabbat Khan. 6. "Development" revisited: a critical analysis of the status of women in Bangladesh/Elora Shehabuddin. 7. A blueprint for an augmented gender development index/Farida C. Khan. 8. Application of linkage banking models to mobilize rural savings for financial intermediation in Bangladesh/Md. Kabir Ahmed and M. Kabir Hassan. 9. Social control of health care in Bangladesh/Syed Saad Andaleeb. 10. The dynamic relationship between fertility rate and its proximate determinants in Bangladesh/Mohammad S. Hasan. 11. Enhancing education through E-learning in Bangladesh/Badrul H. Khan. 12. I-PRSP of Bangladesh: a critical review through an environmental lens/Mizan Khan and Saleemul Huq. 13. The environment and policy-making in Bangladesh/Khorshed Alam. 14. Fuelwood energy and environmental concern in Bangladesh/A.H.M. Mustain Billah. 15. Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in Bangladesh: reconciling the issues of human rights, indigenous rights and environmental governance/M. Ashiqur Rahman. 16. Traffic congestions in Dhaka and socio-economic development in Bangladesh: some micro-and macro-level connections/Ansar Ahmed. Index.
"Development Issues of Bangladesh-III has been written with the theme: human development and quality of life in Bangladesh. The two concepts, central to the evolution of a civilized society, are approached from a variety of perspectives that include key global indexes and their role in Bangladesh, various economic, social and human aspects of development, governance and identity issues, class factions and the potential for democratization, empowerment and rights, especially of women, the role of a gender development index to account for women and their contributions, rural financial markets, health care, fertility, literacy and education and the potential for E-learning, environmental issues, as well as political economy and finance.
The sixteen articles in this volume provide a critical examination of the above issues and a rigorous analysis of empirical data that relate to human development and quality of life. This volume also attempts to provide policy prescriptions for problems centering on the main theme. The timely subject matter, objective analysis, and policy prescriptions are expected to prove useful to academicians, development practitioners and policy makers in Bangladesh, as well as in other developing countries.
Bangladesh Development Initiative (BDI), the sponsoring organization of this book, is a US-Based think-tank of scholars and professionals devoted to the generation and dissemination of knowledge on development issues of Bangladesh. BDI\'s efforts are focused on reaching policy-makers, academicians, politicians, diplomats, businessmen, students, and the wider constituency." (jacket)
