The final document of the Nairobi Conference, the Forward Looking Strategies (FLS) for the Advancement of Women, lists among its objectives: Every women should have an opportunity for self supporting employment. In rural Bangladesh women had no access to the formal employment market nor access to credit to engage in income generating activities before the advent of the garments manufacturing sector and the Grameen Bank.

The varieties, complexities and pervasiveness of development problems in an agrarian and poverty stricken country like Bangladesh are most acutely felt in the life of women, Due to the special nature of the economy and socio-cultural pattern, their participation is not visible, contribution not recognized and critical needs and issues are overlooked.

Social Business is a visionary new dimension for capitalism,developed by Muhammad Yunus, the practical genius who pioneered micro-credit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.By harnessing the energy of profit-making to the objective of fulfilling human needs,social business creates self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth even as they produce goods and services that make the world a better place.

The present volume titled Regional Cooperation in South Asia: A Review of Bangladesh's Development 2004 is the ninth publication under the Independent Review of Bangladesh's Development (IRBD) initiative of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). IRBD2004 continues the rich tradition of providing, on an annual basis, a home grown assessment of Bangladesh's development process through a review of the dynamics of key macroeconomic variables and developmental indicators. Successive IRBDs have also been presenting an analysis of key strategic issues of critical importance and interest to Bangladesh's long-term development. Part A of the present volume provides an in-depth analysis of the state of the Bangladesh economy in FY2004 by examining the dynamics of key macroeconomic indicators including growth rate, poverty situation, investment, inflation, fiscal and monetary balances, exchange rate movements and foreign exchange reserves.

Most of the policy recommendations in this study aim at eliminating or minimising the gender imbalances arising from women employment in the export oriented garment industries.

This volume contains a number of studies considered essential for a course on technological capability building in developing countries. It is an outcome of a Technology Link Programme between the University of Strathclyde and the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology. The book aims to help the reader gain a good understanding of the relevant historical developments and also the various static and dynamic issues involved. The focus of the volume is on analysing the process of helping effective transfer of technology to developing countries.

This comprehensive Education Sector Review has been published in three separate volumes. Volume II contains chapters on Primary and Pre-Primary Education, Non-Formal Education, and Secondary and Higher Secondary Education in Bangladesh.

The author has demonstrated the social relations in the interior of the factory, the development of the hierarchic status over the years and the specific interaction that links the different categories of personnels.

This book which depends heavily on data collected from the field, exan-tines the growth of machinery manufacturing and its impact on technological capability in Bangladesh.

বিশ গেরামের গল্প বইটির মূল লক্ষ্য বাংলাদেশের বিভিন্ন অঞ্চল থেকে বহুস্তর-বিশিষ্ট দৈব নমুনা চয়নের ভিত্তিতে বাছাইকৃত ২০টি গ্রামের চার দশকব্যাপী ঘটে যাওয়া আর্থ-সামাজিক রূপান্তর উপস্থাপন করা।