...POWER OF SOCIAL BUSINESS IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION F-532: Business Research Methodology and Econometrics Submitted to, Dr. M. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury Professor, Department of Finance University of Dhaka Submitted by, Md. Rased Mosarraf MBA ID No.: 16-469 BBA ID No.: 16-062 MBA, 16th Batch Department of Finance University of Dhaka “Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.” –Dr. Muhammad Yunus Date of Submission: July 19, 2016 i Letter of Transmittal July 19, 2016 Dr. M. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury Professor, Department of Finance University of Dhaka Subject: Submission of Research Paper. Dear Sir, I am very glad to submit you the paper on “Power of Social Business in Poverty Alleviation”. I would like to say that this paper is helpful for me to know about the social business concept. I am very thankful to you for giving us such a fantastic opportunity to make a paper on this topic. I have tried my best to make this report meaningful by providing necessary information. Yours sincerely, ………………………… (Md. Rased Mosarraf) MBA Roll: 16-469 BBA Roll: 16-062 Department of Finance University of Dhaka ii Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 1 Literature Review .............................................................
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... * Introduction 02 * Objectives 03 * Methodology 03 * Description of Juvenile delinquency 03 * Causes of Juvenile delinquency in Bangladesh 06 * Prevention of Juvenile delinquency in Bangladesh 13 * Conclusion 17 * References 19 * Introduction: Juvenile delinquency is one of the most prominent problems today throughout the world especially in developing countries as Bangladesh. It is seems that traditional patterns of guiding the relationships and transition between family, school and work are being challenged. Social relations that ensure a smooth process of socialization are collapsing and lifestyle is becoming more dynamic and less predictable. The reformation of the labour market, the extension of the maturity gap and the limited opportunities to become an independent adult are all changes influencing relationships with family and friends. Also, educational opportunities and choices, labour market participation, leisure activities and lifestyles often create hindrance in the way of developing adolescence normal behaviour. There are some new pressures that influence on young people while undergoing the transition from childhood to independence. The factors which create a bridge with the way of getting delinquent in Bangladesh are rapid population growth, the unavailability of housing and support services, poverty, unemployment and underemployment among youth, the decline in the authority of local...
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...Introduction :Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated countries with 150 million people, 26% of whom live below the national poverty line of US $2 per day.In addition, child malnutrition rates are currently at 48%, in condition that is tied to the low social status of women in Bangladeshi society.A small country in the South Asia, tucked between India and the Bay of Bengal, of the Indian Ocean. Stricken by poverty, overpopulation, and malnutrition many people in this country are destitute. Economy: While Bangladesh suffers from many problems such as poor infrastructure, political instability, corruption, and insufficient power supplies, the country's economy has grown 5-6% per year since 1996. However, Bangladesh still remains a poor, overpopulated, and inefficiently-governed nation with about 45% of the Bangladeshis being employed in the agriculture sector. Rural and urban poverty: The World Bank announced in June 2013 that Bangladesh had reduced the number of people living in poverty from 63 million in 2000 to 46 million in 2010, despite a total population that had grown to approximately 150 million. This means that Bangladesh will reach its first United Nations-established Millennium Development Goal, that of poverty reduction, two years ahead of the 2015 deadline. Bangladesh is also making progress in reducing its poverty rate to 26 percent of the population.[4] Since the 1990s, there has been a declining trend of poverty by 1 percent each year...
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...Problems in developing small scale enterprises in Bangladesh There are a huge number of problems in the question of developing small scale enterprises in Bangladesh, which are discussed below: Individuality: Maximum small scale enterprises are owned by the individuals and an individual has obviously some limitation. Lower Per Capita Income: Per capita income of our people is low and for this reason our people are not being able to generate adequate capital to run the business efficiently. Unskilled Human Resources: Human resources of our country are not skilled this is a problem with developing small scale enterprises in Bangladesh. The economic environment of our country is not hundred percent suitable for operating the business another cause of the restrictions. Excessive import of foreign product: Excessive import of foreign product in our country is another reason cause when the people of the country will be mainly dependent on the imported product then the entrepreneurs will loose their interest to develop small scale enterprises. Political instability: Political instability of our country is another reason for developing the small scale enterprises rate slow. Political environment of our country is not suitable enough to run the efficient business in our society. Deterioration of Morality: Public moral is getting down means most of our people are loosing their moral and for this reason developing small scale enterprises in Bangladesh is not so easy like the other...
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...Empowering the RMG girl Over the past three decades the Readymade Garment (RMG) sector has become crucial to Bangladesh’s economy. According to the WTO, Bangladesh became the fourth largest RMG producing country in the world after China, EU-27 and Turkey while it has been the largest exporter of cotton T-shirts and the second largest exporter of cotton pullover and jeans for the European Union. Also, Bangladesh’s exports of cotton trousers in the USA ranked second by volume. The RMG sector contributes a staggering 78 per cent of Bangladesh’s foreign exchange earnings, keeps many associated service businesses going and provides employment to millions of workers, approximately 80 per cent of whom are women, who otherwise would be hard pressed to find wage labour. Looking into many scientific studies and popular discourses, it is an undeniable fact that the Bangladeshi women workers in the RMG industries in the era of globalisation are absolutely deprived of their labour rights, vividly manifested in the country’s labour law. It is equally significant that a large number of industrial reserve army entered in the formal labour force, who otherwise would have lived unemployed or underemployed. This is why one important debate among the policymakers, academics and the experts is whether the rural, migrant workers who enter the new manufacturing factories in ‘Majority World’ countries experience significant changes in their lives. From the economic point of view there is no doubt that...
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...(Corporate Social Responsibilities) • CSR practices in Bangladesh. • CSR in Banking sector ( Education , Health care, Social development) • Principals of CSR • Advantages of CSR • Disadvantages of CSR + ` Corporate Social Responsibilities Corporate Social Responsibilities simply means business giving back to the society. Corporate social responsibility is the commitment of business to contribute to sustainable economic growth, working with employees, their families, the local community and society at large to improve their quality of life. It is comparatively and speedily developing trend. But the CSR is not only simply a communality activity, although this the most visible part of ethics of an organization and has a core values. The field of responsible business practice is one of the most speedily budding corporate today. Now companies have to build shareholder value while harmonizing the increasing, ethical, social and environmental expectation of the society. In a nutshell, today companies have to make profits with principle, which will ultimately need companies to be more transparent. There is a consciousness that being responsible can actually be good for a company’s reputation and for a business. CSR particles in Bangladesh A socially responsible business environment is as much needed in Bangladesh as anywhere else. It’s really needed in a developing country like Bangladesh. In developing country, where social institution...
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... Title of report: digital divide gap vs. poverty. Is there any relation between them? Table of content |Serial no |Title |Page no | |1 |Abstract | | |2 |Literature review | | |3 |Background and ICT status of Bangladesh | | |4 |Executive summary | | |5 |Main body (Current scenario, Challenge, Recommendation) | | |6 |Conclusion | | |7 |Reference | | |8 |Questionnaire...
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...International Journal of Social Science Studies Vol. 2, No. 2; April 2014 ISSN 2324-8033 E-ISSN 2324-8041 Published by Redfame Publishing URL: http://ijsss.redfame.com Social Norms and Impediments of Women Development in Bangladesh Abul Kalam Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Economics, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT)Mirpur-2, Dhaka, Bangladesh Correspondence: Md. KALAM, 32-44 Steinway Astoria, NY11103, United States. Received: January 11, 2014 doi:10.11114/ijsss.v2i2.365 Accepted: February 17, 2014 Available online: March 3, 2014 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v2i2.365 Abstract This study focuses upon the contemporary process of Social Norms and Impediments of Women Development in Bangladesh. The development of women in organizations, Decision making, Political participation and gender mainstreaming is currently seen as the dominant conceptual model for promoting social justice and women equality. This study intends to see the position of women, discourses and various political, economic and social factors that surrounded these events. The impediments of women in Bangladesh were being pulled in different directions as a result, the context of social norms and gender inequality that existed at global, national, community and domestic levels. Child marriage is one of the main impediments of women empowerment and implementation of the government‟s vision-2021. In Bangladesh, the patriarchal capitalism puts women...
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...The Women Discrimination in Bangladesh Never Ending. “The judge said Rehana had not properly coped with the death of her husband. She was too young to take care of the children on her own” (Anam3). The sentence from the Golden age novel book above demonstrates the women injustice in the Bangladesh.First the judge said that Rehana is too you to taking care of the children but if she was allow to married, does it mean she ready to have a children and taking care of them? Second, because of her husband dead means she have no rights and abilities to taking care of her children and make a decision by herself. The last, how can the judge know that she can not effort her children and other person will taking care the children better than the mother. Is it real? The question From the novel connect to the real situation in Bangladesh. By year 2008,the Bangladesh government has pushed ahead with a new National Women’s Development Policy (NWDP).The Bangladesh’s image from the world view was better than the past and it attracted many investor to invest the business in the country. Even through Bangladesh’s government attempt to prove the image of masculine social to Gender equality social in the globalization age, with many evidence such as the statistic of rape, gang rape, murder, torture and acid throwing to the women showed the increase number that the government policies in women’s right are fail. In the deep-seated culture that man is dominating society. It seems not easy for...
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...Political Environment of Bangladesh: The political system of Bangladesh is followed by representative democracy. Despite being a democratic country the safeguards of democracy are not being exercised properly which have negative impact on business operation. Political unrest is almost a daily occurrence in Bangladesh which hinders the daily national and international trading system of the country. Foreign firms are feared to come in Bangladesh with FDI. Bangladesh is a democratic country in name but not in action. The following biased democracy safeguards are some of the main hindrances of international business in Bangladesh. Individual right to freedom of expression, opinion and organization are restricted. Media are more or less biased to the current government. There is more or less regular election sometimes major parties avoid election. There are often face to face clashes among the leading political parties. Despite being the court system is independent most of the times its functions are directed by current government. Corrupted political state bureaucracy Corrupted political police and armed force. This situation does not support entrepreneurship that’s why it can not make a man innovative. That’s why local business can not be strong. To be competitive in international business such political system and government is failing to make local business more efficient and more effective. That’s why Bangladesh is lagging behind in international...
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...Old Age Allowance Programme of Bangladesh: Challenges and Lessons Sharifa Begum Senior Research Fellow Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) Background of the Old Age Allowance • As in other countries, Bangladesh too started experiencing population ageing; • According to UN Population Projection, share of older people by 2050 will reach around 20% and absolute number would become more than 40 million. • Government’s concern for older people until 1990’s was limited to public sector employees only who represent around 5% of the labour force and 1% of the older people. Background (contd.) • Following increase of older people and more than that following recent global concerns for these people, the Govt. of Bangladesh in recent years became sensitive about older people and felt to do something beyond moral preaching. • Consequently, the government introduced a Monthly Allowance Programme for older people in April 1998. In case of Bangladesh, the credit for the programme almost entirely goes to the Govt. Main Features of the Programme • • • • • • Means-tested programme Provides monthly allowance to poor elderly Benefit has no condition attached to it Financed from the country’s national budget Has countrywide coverage Accomplished substantial expansion since introduction; – beneficiaries increased from 0.4 to 2.75 million – Monthly allowance increased from BDT 100 to BDT 300; Main Features (contd.) • • • • ...
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...Persons, ASM ATIQUR RAHMAN discusses the plight and prospects of ageing in 21st century Bangladesh. Old age is neither a disease nor an individual problem; rather, it has become a worldwide challenge that must be addressed globally. "Later life" is unavoidable, inevitable, universal and excessively troublesome. No one can stop the process of ageing. The quality of life and the rate of ageing both vary considerably depending on a number of factors such as education, occupation, purchasing capacity, lifestyle, food habit, residential location, belief and culture, etc. Surprisingly, ageing takes place within the context of family members, kin, neighbours, friends, work associates and the state. Lifelong preparations, making intergenerational linkages, using appropriate technology, developing right-based societal relationships, upholding religious values at the personal level, political commitment and governmental undertaking at the macro-level can help ensure a healthy ageing and active later life. Policy responses to ageing until now have tended to focus only on the provision of medical care and income security for older persons, which remain important but have been inadequate compared to the rate of ageing occurring now and projected to intensify in the coming decades. Population ageing is a by-product of scientific development in human societies bound to remain a dominant social problem throughout the 21st century. It is also gaining increasing recognition as one of the...
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...the coastal areas of Bangladesh, and Equity and Justice Working Group Bangladesh (Equitybd) is an advocacy and campaign component of COAST Trust. We have strong advocacy and campaigning program on coastal livelihood development, climate change and environment. We are trying to provide technical and financial support to the coastal poor people to improve their livelihoods. COAST implements its entire advocacy program with Community Led Approach (CLP). Under its Social Justice section COAST works to develop People’s Organization or Community Based Organizations (CBO) with the participation or leadership of the poor themselves. The main aim of the social justice section is to ensure social justice, in other words empowerment for the coastal people. As one of the core division of COAST, Social Justice (SJ) division is aiming to build counter leadership from the poor at local level who has the capacity for demand mediation, ability to organize local issue-based movement, empowers to challenge any irregularity. SJ also act as catalyst for having public service and rights in between public agencies and people; strengthening local government institution; action and awareness on human rights issues; support to protect violence against women (VAW) and acid throwing; political reform; and enhance capacity of democratic institutions at local level. 2. Coastal Area of Bangladesh, Climate Change Issue And Fishermen Communities: Bangladesh is sloping gently from...
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...ROLE OF NGO IN POVERTY REDUCTION OF BANGLADESH BASED ON A 2013 SURVEY OF NGO ACTIVITIES IN BANGLADESH ROLE OF NGO IN POVERTY REDUCTION OF BANGLADESH BASED ON A 2013 SURVEY OF NGO ACTIVITIES IN BANGLADESH Prepared for Ms. Kohinoor Biswas Assistant Professor Department of Business Administration East West University, Dhaka. Prepared by Muhammad Kawsar Khan ID: 2011-1-10-411 Section: 02 April 17, 2014 April 17, 2014 Ms. Kohinoor Biswas Assistant Professor Department of Business Administration East West University Subject: Submission of assignment on Role of NGO in Poverty Reduction of Bangladesh Dear Madam, This is a great pleasure for us to submit an assignment on ‘Role of NGO in Poverty Reduction of Bangladesh’. We considered your remarks and instructions very carefully while preparing this report. We have tried to visualize all the areas related to this topic. We also used your lecture to fulfill your requirements. We would like to express our heartiest gratitude to you for your tiresome efforts for us which provided us the opportunity to prepare this report. We have tried our level best to present this assignment according to the vital standard and requirements. While preparing this report we have enriched our knowledge a lot about role of NGO in poverty reduction in Bangladesh. We appreciate this opportunity to demonstrate ore educational and analytical skills. Thank you. Sincerely yours, Muhammad Kawsar Khan ...
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...A Study of Nike’s Operations in Bangladesh Through a PESTLE Analysis Sarah Seward-Langdon Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University MAN311 Business in the Asia-Pacific Region Dr. Donald Pak October 30, 2015 Word Count: 3,215 Table of Contents Executive SummaryIntroduction of Bangladesh PESTLE Analysis of Bangladesh Political Situation Economical Situation Social Situation Technological Situation Legal Situation Environmental SituationIntroduction of NikeNike AnalysisMini-SWOTNike in Relation to Bangladesh PESTLE AnalysisConclusionReferences | 344467789101111121416 | Executive Summary The Asia-Pacific region is a diverse and growing area spanning approximately 28,000 square kilometers worldwide (Lane and Waggener, 1997). Countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea have seen unprecedented growth in recent history and are now part of the top 15 world economies (Central Intelligence Agency, 2015). Although which countries are considered part of the region is heavily controversial, many professionals agree that it is one of the most promising areas for business investments. This paper aims to provide a deeper insight into one of the still impoverished countries in the Asia-Pacific region: Bangladesh. After a short introduction of Bangladesh, an in-depth PESTLE analysis will be done on the country’s situation. Before corporations decide to invest in a country, it is extremely important to have all the facts. Through a PESTLE interpretation, the advantages and disadvantages of...
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