Browsing Bora-import by Subject "Bangladesh"
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A review of development trends in the energy sector of Bangladesh
(Research report, Research report, 2001)This is the second report under the CMI/NCG contract for strengthening the country-specific knowledge base of NORAD and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This energy review examines the gas and power sectors in ... -
Bangladesh: Severe Poverty and a Well Functioning Economy?
(Research report, Research report, 2000)This is the first report on Bangladesh under the Country Advisor Agreement between the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (NORAD), the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the Nordic Consulting Group (NCG). The ... -
CMI and Bangladesh: 40 years of collaboration and institutional capacity building
(Research report, Research report, 1997)The report reviews CMI's experience of technical assistance and institutional collaboration in Bangladesh, from the involvement of individual staff members working as experts in Pakistan in the late 1950s to the formal ... -
Does Aid to Institution Development Work? Reflections on Personal Experiences
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)The author has spent dose to ten years as advisor to planning organisations in four developing countries: Pakistan, Kenya, the Sudan and Bangladesh. He raises the question whether the work of the advisory teams resulted ... -
En vurdering av betalingsbalansestøtte til Bangladesh
(Research report, Research report, 2002)Norway has been requested by IMF to provide balance of payment (BOP) support to Bangladesh, which is facing a critical reduction in its foreign exchange reserves. This report, which has been commissioned by NORAD, analyses ... -
Experience from Bangladesh with ethical trading initiatives
(Research report, Research report, 2003)Since the 1990s there has been increasing concern in the North about products from the South and the conditions under which they are produced. In least developed countries labour conditions are considered to be at a very ... -
Microcredit programmes: Methods for solving dilemmas of credit expansion
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)Providing credits seems to be an effective tool for improving the welfare of the poor. It is expected that microcredit funding to poor people will expand rapidly over the coming years. If a sound monitoring mechanism is ... -
Mid-term review of the country programme (MoU: 2003:2008) between Norway and Bangladesh
(Research report, Research report, 2008)This report provides an assessment of Norway’s bilateral development assistance to Bangladesh, covering the period 2003 to 2007, based on information collected on a selection of projects within the country programme. A ... -
Repayment of Old Loans through New Loans. Is "Cross-Financing" a Problem for the Grameen Bank?
(Research report, Research report, 1997)The study analyses the problem and extent of cross-financing in the Grameen Bank system. The main finding is that cross-financing is rarely a problem. However, survey data indicate that long term borrowers, who generally ... -
Research on corruption in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Uganda. What, who and where?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)This report provides an overview of corruption-related literature from five of Norway's priority partner countries in the developing world; i.e. Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Uganda. Both published and unpublished ... -
Secondary and Higher Secondary Education in Bangladesh. Its Growth and State Expenditures: A Time-series Analysis of 1981-90
(Working paper, Working paper, 1992)This paper first identifies trends and patterns in the growth of the secondary and higher secondary schools in Bangladesh, while differentiating between the Islamic madrassa schools, and the general (mainstream) ones. ... -
The SAPRIN Report: An assessment of the empirical analysis supporting main conclusions
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)In 1996, the World Bank and a network of non-governmental organizations (SAPRIN) started cooperating on an evaluation of 15 years of structural adjustment programs (SAPs). The background of our paper is the criticism raised ...