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	Bangladesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bangladesh, in fact, is the only country in the world where power is handed over to members of the civil society for three months, who run the general elections and hand over the power to people's representatives.
		Bangladesh consists mostly of a low-lying river delta located on the Indian subcontinent with a largely marshy jungle coastline on the Bay of Bengal known as the Sundarbans, home to the (Royal) Bengal Tiger and one of the largest mangrove forests in the world.
		Bangladesh is ethnically homogeneous, with Bengalis comprising 98% of the population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bangladesh (4435 words)

	Bangladesh Economy
		Bangladesh is limited in its reserves of coal and oil, and its industrial base is weak.
		Bangladesh Rifles, under the authority of the home ministry, are commanded by army officers who are seconded to the organization.
		In June 2003 Bangladesh was the third-leading contributor to UN peacekeeping operations with a total of 2,642 troops, observers, and military police.
	www.traveldocs.com /bd/economy.htm (1956 words)

	Economy of Bangladesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bangladesh has made significant strides in its economic sector since its independence in 1971.
		Bangladesh's predominantly agricultural economy depends heavily on an erratic monsoonal cycle, with periodic flooding and drought.
		Bangladesh also has established successful export processing zones in Chittagong and Dhaka, and has given the private sector permission to build and operate competing EPZs-initial construction on a Korean EPZ started in 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economy_of_Bangladesh (1626 words)

	Of floods and economy in Bangladesh
		Bangladesh experienced catastrophic coastal flooding since 1995, when 8 meter coastal banks, but the country relies heavily on foreign support and technology to combat flooding.
		Whatever may be the roots of floods and whatever may be the case with the floods, but its a grave truth that Bangladesh has become he very prey to this flood.
		Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters association has claimed that at least the current floods have affected 50 per cent of the garment factories in and around Dhaka City.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/16/11499 (1106 words)

	Economy - Bangladesh - Asia
		Bangladesh’s vast reserves of natural gas, many just recently discovered, hold great potential for the country’s future economic development.
		Bangladesh’s gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated at $47.1 billion in 2000.
		In 1999 Bangladesh’s budget included $5.68 billion in expenditures and $4.15 billion in revenues.
	www.countriesquest.com /asia/bangladesh/economy.htm (195 words)

	Bangladesh Stock Markets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Bangladesh stock markets are characterised by a small number of investors with a peculiarity that 80 percent of total demands for securities emanate from retail investors while the rest of the demands come from institutional investors.
		The future outlook of Bangladesh economy seems sound and bright, and is rooted in the identical political agenda of the major political parties towards free market economy, sound macroeconomic management and a diversified use of the huge natural gas deposits that Bangladesh has.
		Since Bangladesh has adopted free market economy as her national policy to achieve her goals of higher growth and rapid privatisation, she must revive her stock markets and make them capable of working as the main vehicle for mobilising and allocating funds needed to finance the industrial and other development activities of the country.
	www.csebd.com /cse/Publications/Portfolio_Q1_2000/stockmarkets.htm (3980 words)

	aboutbangladesh.tk-Economy of Bangladesh
		Bangladesh is overwhelmingly agricultural, with some three-fifths of the population engaged in farming and helping our economy.
		Bangladesh's electricity is produced by thermal and hydroelectric processes.
		In 1972 the Bangladesh government, in pursuit of its commitment to socialism, nationalized these corporations and then established several new corporations to manage the nationalized enterprises.
	dhost.info /aboutbangladesh/economy.htm (1032 words)

	Bangladesh
		For more information on Bangladesh you may write to the chancery at 2201 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007; check the U.S. State Department or World Factbook country sites; or type in the country's name on the Internet using a broad-based world wide web search engine.
		Bangladesh is located in Southern Asia, bordering the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and India.
		The economy which cannot absorb the rising labor population is largely agricultural and depends heavily on the cultivation of rice.
	www.elca.org /countrypackets/bangladesh/desc.html (522 words)

	Bangladesh Tourism - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		In examining the economy of Bangladesh, wherever one turns the problems crowd in and threaten to overwhelm the analysis.
		The picture of day-to-day and even year-to-year performance of the economy of Bangladesh is a mixture of accomplishment and failure, not significantly different from that of the majority of poor Third World countries.
		The government and people of Bangladesh are entitled to take some pride in the degree of success they have achieved since independence, especially when one contrasts their success with the gloomy forecasts of economists and international experts.
	www.photius.com /countries/bangladesh/economy/bangladesh_economy_tourism.html (686 words)

	Virtual Bangladesh : Economy : Industry
		Bangladesh is the fifth largest supplier of cotton apparel to the United States, and it has begun exporting to West European markets.
		The industrial (and foreign exchange) impact of the discovery of modest reserves of oil in 1986 remains to be assessed.
		Bangladesh also has established an export processing zone (EPZ) in Chittagong and plans to create additional zones.
	www.virtualbangladesh.com /economy/ind.html (171 words)

	Indo-Asian News Service -> Bangladesh-Economy-Remittance -> Bangladesh receives $3.5 bn remittance in 11 months (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dhaka, June 5 (IANS) Bangladesh received remittances worth $3.5 billion in the July-May period of the current fiscal, recording about 15 percent growth over the same period of the last fiscal.
		According to figures released by the Bangladesh Bank, remittances during 11 months of the current fiscal rose to $3.51 billion, up from $3.06 billion in the last year.
		Over the years, remittances appeared as a significant lifeline of the economy lowering the pressure on the balance of payment situation.
	www.eians.com /stories/2005/06/05/05nos.shtml (227 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 221
		But the positive aspect of this lies in the fact that it is in India's interest as well to ensure that the economy of Bangladesh is not affected negatively by this severe imbalance.
		The Bangladesh trade surplus with USA on the other hand is not at the cost of the growth of the US economy.
		The only solution is in greater economic integration with Bangladesh by giving priorities to a zero tariff access to the Indian market as it exists with Bhutan and Nepal by investment cooperation, reduction and elimination of non-tariff barriers and added cooperation in the spheres of culture and tourism, education and health care.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/01/08/d401081501105.htm (1024 words)

	Bangladesh's Current Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Bangladesh economy grew by 5.4% in 2004-05 compared to 6.3% in 2003-04.
		The average devaluation of Bangladesh Taka was 3.4% in 2004-05 compared to 1.8% in 2003-04.
		In 2004-05, main monetary instruments used by Bangladesh Bank were: the increment of cash reserve requirements from 4% to 4.5% and increases of interest rate on treasury bond/bill.
	www.mccibd.org /bdecon.html (1768 words)

	South Asia Briefing Unit 1 - Bangladesh Economy
		Bangladesh is primarily an agricultural country, with a growing industrial sector.
		Between 60% and 75% of Bangladesh's population are landless.
		The vast majority of Bangladesh's inhabitants—almost 80%—live in its rural areas, and 65% of its labor force are involved in farming, particularly for food.
	www.thp.org /sac/unit1/beconomy.htm (398 words)

	Indo-Asian News Service -> Bangladesh-Economy/Diplomacy-Pipeline -> Bangladesh not ready to sign pipeline deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dhaka, April 3 (IANS) Bangladesh has deferred the signing of an agreement for a proposed gas pipeline from Myanmar to India that will traverse its territory, saying it has to first iron out differences with New Delhi.
		Bangladesh has turned down Myanmar's request to convene a meeting April 20-21 to sign a memorandum of understanding on the proposed pipeline, the New Age daily reported Sunday.
		Before signing the agreement, Bangladesh wants India to reduce the bilateral trade imbalance and to provide transit facilities to import hydroelectricity from Nepal and Bhutan and to allow Dhaka to trade with the two countries.
	www.eians.com /stories/2005/04/03/03not.shtml (282 words)

	Bangladesh: Economy
		Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest nations, with overpopulation adding to its economic woes, and it is heavily reliant on foreign aid.
		Bangladesh is the world's largest producer of jute.
		Since the country is unable to feed itself, the most important of Bangladesh's imports is food.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0856832.html (187 words)

	Demetrius at The Australian National University: Item 1885/42132 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bangladesh is significantly dependent on external resources and at the behest of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Bangladesh adopted a set of structural adjustment policies that impacted on all sectors of the economy and every aspect of the short- and medium-term economic management.
		Suffice it to say that reforms under the structural adjustment programme were activated through a set of comprehensive economic policies through which the government (a) acted directly to restructure taxation and the provision of social services, and (b) intervened in the market to change pricing behaviour to create a favourable environment for investment and growth.
		Section 2 examines the performance of the Bangladesh economy in terms of broad economic indicators including growth rates in GDP its composition and stability.
	hdl.handle.net /1885/42132 (363 words)

	Bangladesh - The Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1971, the year Bangladesh achieved independence from Pakistan, the new nation was referred to in foreign circles as an "international basket case," a wounded combatant almost beyond hope of recovery.
		In its first seventeen years of independence, Bangladesh did not prosper, nor was it able to improve substantially the quality of life for its huge population, but it did not lose ground either.
		And if the economy still seemed dangerously poised on the brink of disaster--a drought, a typhoon, or excessive flooding threatens every year--the government, the people, and the international community had combined to limit the scope of disasters, and the economy of Bangladesh had continued to struggle upward.
	countrystudies.us /bangladesh/53.htm (344 words)

	Bangladesh History, Bangladesh Flag, Culture of Bangladesh, Economy of Bangladesh, History of Bangladesh
		Most of the people of Bangladesh are confined to villages, with only 26 per cent living in urban areas.
		Apart from this, Bangladesh is a land of great painters and realist paintings by them have been recognized worldwide.
		The flag of Bangladesh is green with a large red disk slightly to the hoist side of center.
	www.mapsofworld.com /country-profile/bangladesh1.html (476 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 160 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bangladesh, readily accepted this advice though many of these reforms were unsatisfactorily implemented.
		The SAR process impacted on the political economy of Bangladesh where new social forces were financially and politically empowered whilst large numbers of people, from desubsidised poor farmers to disemployed factory workers, became its victims.
		Bangladesh will have many rivers to cross before we move from our state of political atrophy and structural stagnation to assume the trapping of a sovereign nation state.
	www.thedailystar.net /2003/11/04/d311041501102.htm (2451 words)

	Moer Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As a Third World nation, Bangladesh since its birth in 1971, has been a victim of State dominance in the national economy, a philosophy that was, and continues to be vigorously propounded by Bangladesh's over imposing intelligentsia and the old socialist-statist politicians and Keynesian economists trained in the West.
		Bangladesh is a country where 'poverty alleviation' is the most common phraseology loudly discussed and addressed at public meetings and at posh seminar conference halls.
		Bangladesh is fully a statist scenario where politicians cry hoarse promising jobs and economic development willfully unaware that the function of the state and the government is merely to protect life, property, and the national geographic boundary.
	www.moer-bangladesh.org (2160 words)

	Ministry of Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The economy of Bangladesh is primarily dependent on agriculture.
		Bangladesh Agriculture is now in the process of transformation from subsistence farming into commercial farming.
		But in Bangladesh the main problems of expanding agro-business are lack of necessary infrastructural facilities, credits, equipment for quality control, processing and product development, refrigerator van etc. Some facilities/services should therefore be provided through this project to develop the agro-business sector.
	www.bangladeshgov.org /moa/moa.html (3008 words)

	News from Bangladesh - Index Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bangladesh will seek more than $100 million to help fight bird flu at a two-day international donors' conference in Beijing, a senior government official said yesterday.
		One of the most striking things that Marilyn Evans has observed about Bangladesh is after five months in their country is the way they attribute things to fate.
		Bangladesh will hold its trade fair in Colombo on Jan. 20-23 with the participation of an over 90- member delegation representing...
	bangladesh-web.com /news (1059 words)

	Virtual Bangladesh : Economy
		It had the advantages of a mild, almost tropical climate, fertile soil, ample water, and an abundance of fish, wildlife, and fruit.
		As early as the thirteenth century, the region was developing as an agrarian economy.
		Post Independence Bangladesh had to face the devastation wrought by earlier economic exploitation during the Pakistan era as well as destruction of critical infrastructure during the war.
	www.virtualbangladesh.com /economy (363 words)

	Encyclopedia: Economy of Bangladesh
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		Bangladesh is ethnically homogenous, with Bengalis comprising 98% of the population, the rest belonging to the tribal people.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Economy-of-Bangladesh (1012 words)

	Bangladesh
		The decade of stagnation : the state of the Bangladesh economy in the 1980's Rehman Sobhan (ed.).
		Contradictions and distortions in a rural economy : the case of Bangladesh Stefan De Vylder ; Daniel Asplund ; SIDA.
		Bangladesh in South Asia and ASEAN : a study in economic cooperation Sadrel Reza ; Hafiz Siddiqi.
	www.cmi.no /bangladesh/litsearch.cfm?text=econom (4216 words)

	Bangladesh Other Industries - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Not all industrial growth in Bangladesh was stimulated by anticipation of foreign sales.
		The national economy stood to benefit equally from domestic production that could eliminate the need for imports of one kind or another.
		A good example of importsubstitution manufacturing was the pharmaceutical industry, a field that attracted both foreign and domestic investment in the first decade of independence, based on the large potential domestic market.
	www.photius.com /countries/bangladesh/economy/bangladesh_economy_other_industries.html (303 words)

	Bangladesh Currency Fluctuation - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		To help offset this phenomenon, Bangladesh first used the compensatory financing facility of the International Monetary Fund (IMF--see Glossary) in FY 1974.
		By FY1975, however, the government revised its stance, declaring a devaluation of the taka by 56 percent and agreeing to the establishment by the World Bank of the Bangladesh Aid Group (see Foreign Assistance, this ch.).
		Between 1985 and 1987, the taka was adjusted in frequent incremental steps, stabilizing again around 12 percent lower in real terms against the United States dollar, but at the same time narrowing the difference between the official rate and the preferential secondary rate from 15 percent to 7.5 percent.
	www.photius.com /countries/bangladesh/economy/bangladesh_economy_currency_fluctuation.html (284 words)

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