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The Unnayan Onneshan is a progressive think-tank that undertakes
research for advancing ideas and building constituencies for social
transformation. The Institute advances critical scholarship,
promotes inter-disciplinary dialogue and amplifies grassroots
perspectives. The public-interest research institute works in
collaboration with national partners, international organisations
and leading universities.
The Unnayan Onneshan - the Innovators was registered in 2003 as a
not-for-profit trust to contribute towards search for solutions to
endemic poverty, injustice, gender inequality and environmental
degradation at the local, national and global levels. The
philosophy, ideas and actions of the organization focus on
pluralistic, participatory and sustainable development and seek to
challenge the narrow theoretical and policy approaches derived from
unitary models of development...
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Call for Papers
Second Announcement
“Financing for Climate Change - Challenges and Way Forward”
Abstract Submission: 31st May, 2008
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Bangladesh Public Health Conference 2008
Dhaka, June 13-14, 2008. |
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New Publications at Environment Unit |
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The Role of IMF in Policy Making in Bangladesh
Unnayan Onneshan has organized a round table discussion on “The Role of IMF in Policy Making in Bangladesh” at CIRDAP auditorium on 20th October, 2007. Md. Iqbal Ahmed presented a paper on the issue. Ahmed showed the effect of IMF policies with empirical data and ended with questioning its role. To download the
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NATIONAL BUDGET 2007-08
A Rapid Assessment
The budget for the fiscal 2007-08 coincides with a heavy down
pour in the day of announcement, with a simmering heat wave
during its preparation. The budget, economic manifestation
of political mandate, lands in by a non-political
government, in the backdrop of a chaos created by feuding
political parties. It times up with G8 leaders’ heads in the
sand of poverty, hegemony and protest at seaside summit in
Germany. The budget keeps up with the continuity of
liberalisation, privatisation and deregulation of successive
governments. To download the
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Report Summary in
Bangla
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Bangladesh National Coalitions’ Events in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in Batam People’s Forum and Parallel to Singapore WB-IMF Annual General Meeting, September |
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National Minimum Wage for Workers’ Socio-economic Security: Rights, Realities and Way Forward
The paper exposes the fallacies of current debate on
minimum wage and orthodox emphasis on ‘flexibility’ in
labour market in Bangladesh. The paper amply
demonstrates the necessity of national minimum wage at
a level that ensures rights to live in dignity along
with rights in work and rights to work in just and
favourable conditions.
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Deserting the Sundarbans
Local People's Perspective on ADB-GEF-Netherlands Funded Sundarbans Biodiversity Conservation Project
The case study provides local people's perspective on
ADB-GEF-Netherlands funded Sundarbans Biodiversity Conservation
Project as Third Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) meets in the Cape Town, from 29-30 August 2006, to review GEF
policies and operations. The project alienated symbiotic eco-system approach
of human-animal-forest interdependence by creating artificial, alien and short term resource and livelihood systems for the local communities
and indigenous people in the name of 'poverty reduction' and was
unilaterally cancelled by the ADB, burdening the people of Bangladesh
to pay back the loan for a flawed-designed project.
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Bangladesh National Budget 2006 - 2007
A Rapid Assessment
The rapid assessment is divided into three parts. The first part
locates the dynamics of fiscal measures to understand their
implications on the process of national output expansion, which is the
necessary condition for an economy to sustain in the coming years,
especially in view of reduction of poverty. The second section
analyses the budgetary allocation in light of the previous trends in
order to find out as to where the resource are going. The final section
attempts to understand the outcome of such exercise, particularly in
light of claims in the field of millennium development goals (MDGs)
which are prime target of the government, as stated in its poverty
reduction strategy paper, which according to the government is her
national strategy for development.
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Bangladesh Public Policy Watch 2006
State of the Economy - Interim
Report
This year's interim Bangladesh Public Policy Watch presents state of
the economy in Bangladesh for last ten years (FY1996-97 to FY2005-06),
with a view to stimulating public debate as the country progresses
towards another election. In an acrimonious atmosphere too often loud
with the clash of uniformed opinion and smug self-righteousness,
Bangladesh Public Policy Watch, like its past two annual volumes,
offers a rather old-fashioned contribution: evidence.
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Bangladesh Public Policy Watch 2005
Millenium Developmentt Goals: A Reality Check
This year's Bangladesh Public Policy Watch presents a reality check on the achievement of millennium development goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh. The timely theme provides an independent review of implementation
vis-a-vis the commitments made in UN Millenium Declaration (MD) by the largest-ever gathering of Heads of State in 2000 as they again meet from September 14 to 16, 2005 to take decision on how the governments have lived up to their promises.
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Demystifying Effectiveness of Market Access for LDCs
A Case Study of Bangladesh Apparel Exports to the USA
The rhetoric of a special development package for the LDCs was aired in Hong Kong, with the assurance that the Ministerial would deliver on the promise of market access. The current study examine the effectiveness of the DFQF provided to the products of LDCs, by taking exportables of a single country to a single country market. For this purpose a trend analysis of Bangladesh exports into the US market has been conducted for last six years.
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Sinking into Vulnerability
Erosion of Non-Reciprocal Preferences in WTO-NAMA: The Case of Bangladesh
The erosion of non-reciprocal preference, envisaged to result from the possible MFN liberalisation, has received least attention in the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations. The paper attempts to measure the extent of the erosion of preference Bangladesh may incur in the EU and USA market. The erosion of preference has been estimated in response to proposals made in NAMA negotiations. The impact estimated on the basis of traditional measure of preference erosion, which shows that the magnitude of erosion of preference to be faced by Bangladesh in the EU market as a result of MFN tariff cut is quite significant based upon the value of coefficients.
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Plunging into Food Insecurity
Multilateral Liberalisation in Agriculture and the Concern of Net-food Importing Countries: The Case of Bangladesh
The report attempts to understand the implications of multilateral agricultural liberalisation on food security situation of a net-food importing developing country.
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Slippery Slopes: How Hong
Kong Empowers Rich Countries
to Choke the LDCs - A Rapid
Assessment
This rapid assessment provides a brief account on the outcome
of the Hong Kong Ministerial. The rhetoric of a special
development package for the LDCs was aired in Hong Kong, and
was told that, for sure, this Ministerial delivered on the
promise of market access. The second part of the report
examines the claim and contains an illustrative exercise that
analyses the effectiveness of the deal by taking exportables
of a single country to a single country market. Given the scenario, clearly,the
country in question would not have
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much benefit from the availed market access as her exports
concentrated mainly on few products and very limited number of
destinations. Apprehension is that many of the products under
different tariff lines, in which she has export interests
might be excluded from the market access - at least the US
proclamation portends of such apprehension. The country could
reap some benefit if she is capable enough to bargain with her
bilateral counterparts to avail such facilities for some of
the particular products, if not all, in which she has
particular export interests. However, this requires a lot of
ground work and, of course, it is inevitable to upgrade her
negotiation skills. The final part of the report, thus, ends
with some recommendations for the internal reflection and
elements of strategy the LDCs may choose for their onward
journey.
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