Search Results - "Bangladesh"

Legal empowerment for women and disadvantaged groups : final report.

Subjects: “…Women in development Bangladesh.…”
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Climate Change Impacts and Women's Livelihood : Vulnerability in Developing Countries / by Momtaz, Salim, Asaduzzaman, Muhammad

Table of Contents: “…Climate Change Impacts and Women in Bangladesh 2.1 Background information on Bangladesh 2.1.1 Geographical location of Bangladesh 2.1.2 Weather and seasons in Bangladesh 2.1.3 Demography and over-population in Bangladesh 2.1.4 Poverty and inequality in Bangladesh 2.2 Climate change and Bangladesh 2.2.1 Cyclones and storm surges 2.2.2 Sea level rise 2.2.3 Floods and flooding 2.2.4 Salinity 2.2.5 Drought 2.3 The status of women in rural Bangladesh 2.4 Climate change impact on womens livelihood 3. …”
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Gender, development, and climate change /

Table of Contents: “…Skutsch -- Kyoto protocol negotiations: reflections on the role of women / Delia Villagrasa -- Gender and climate hazards in Bangladesh / Terry Cannon -- Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations / Valerie Nelson ... …”

Special economic zones progress, emerging challenges, and future directions /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Thomas Farole and Gokhan Akinci -- The thin end of the wedge : unlocking comparative advantage through EPZs in Bangladesh / Mustafizul Hye Shakir and Thomas Farole -- Success and statis in Honduras' free zones / Michael Engman -- China's investment in special economic zones in Africa / Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang -- Partnership agreements in the China-Singapore (Suzhou) industrial park : lessons for joint economic zone development / Min Zhao and Thomas Farole -- SEZs in the context of regional integration : creating synergies for trade and investment / Naoko Koyama -- When trade preferences and tax breaks are no longer enough : the challenge of adjustment in the Dominican Republic's free zones / Jean-Marie Burgaud and Thomas Farole -- Fostering innovation in developing economies through SEZs / Justine White -- Early reform zones : catalysts for dynamic market economies in Africa / Richard Auty -- Planned obsolescence? …”
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Emerging evidence on vouchers and faith-based providers

Table of Contents: “…Ortega -- Literacy and numeracy in faith-based and government schools in Sierra Leone / Quentin Wodon and Yvonne Ying -- Comparing faith-based and government schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon -- Student achievement in religious and secular secondary schools in Bangladesh / Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury and Amit Dar -- Does money matter?…”
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Copyright law and translation : access to knowledge in developing economies / by Talagala, Chamila S.

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Climate change in the global workplace : labour, adaptation and resistance /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : climate adaptation and labour studies : an overview and interrogation / Nithya Natarajan and Laurie Parsons -- Thermal inequality in a changing climate : heat, mobility and precarity in the Cambodian brick sector / Laurie Parsons -- "Fulfilling-labour" in agroecology : research and application perspectives in the context of climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa / Patrick Bottazzi, Sébastien Boillat, Franziska Marfurt, and Sokhna Mbossé Seck -- Rural female labour and their routes to food security : a study of Bangladesh / Taneesha Mohan -- "When we need rain there is not enough, and when we don't need it there is too much" : climate change impacts and adaptation for Gaddi agro-pastoralism in the Indian Himalayas / Richard Axelby and Maura Bulgheroni -- From climate adaptation to social reproductive resistance : examining the gendered climate-labour migration nexus in Southeast Asian mobilizations of environmental justice / Symon James-Wilson -- Hands that adapt : migrant agricultural labour and climate change adaptation in Mediterranean landscapes / Ethemcan Turhan -- Workers and environmentalists of the world unite : towards a red-green agenda in the UK union movement / Maya Goodfellow and Nithya Natarajan -- A changing climate : indigenous participation in extractive industry / Kimberleigh Schultz -- Climate change is class war : clobal labour's challenge to the capitalocene / Sabina Lawreniuk -- Conclusion : towards a reworking of climate adaptation as labour 'resistance' / Nithya Natarajan and Laurie Parsons.…”
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