http://hdl.handle.net/10361/48 2013-05-20T13:21:56Z 2013-05-20T13:21:56Z Al Mamun, Syed Abdulla http://hdl.handle.net/10361/457 2013-03-02T06:49:49Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Human resource accounting (HRA) disclosure of Bangladeshicompanies and its association with corporate characteristics Al Mamun, Syed Abdulla This study reports the relationship between corporate characteristics and Human Resource Disclosure (HRAD) level in fifty five randomly selected companies of Bangladesh. The relationships were determined using a HRAD Index (HRADI) under a number of hypotheses. The results of the study show that companies averagely disclose 25% of the total HRAD items. In this study, HRAD has been found significantly related with the size of the company, category of the company (financial or non-financial) and profitability. However, HDAD had no influence on the age of companies.

2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hakim, Sheikh Serajul http://hdl.handle.net/10361/456 2013-03-02T06:49:47Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sustainability of assisted shelter projects in post-cyclone communities: The Southkhali case, Bangladesh Hakim, Sheikh Serajul Sustainability results from the combination of a number of socio-cultural, economical, organizational, technical and environmental factors in development. Any project is only sustainable when it meets today’s needs and also thinks about tomorrow’s possible problems and ways to resolve those. Sustainability of housing projects, therefore, must also consider all these. Yet in Bangladesh, it is usual to have un-sustainable projects even in the presence of norms and prior knowledge. Shocking but a matter of fact is that situations are even worse in emergencies (e.g. post-cyclone situation); considering assistance (thus assisted shelters/houses), and especially the intensions and implementation strategy behind that, the sustainability of many projects hence are seldom beyond questioning. As many previous studies (in and outside Bangladesh) in similar situations predict and point out, sustainability could be really overlooked in such forms of (re)development. Having this in mind, and after visiting one such distressed community (Southkhali, Bagerhat), the predictions do not seem wrong. This research, thus, aims to verify the nature and extent of sustainability that truly characterizes these assisted projects in Bangladesh.

2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Shimul, Shafiun Nahin Abduallah, S.M. Siddiqua, Salina http://hdl.handle.net/10361/455 2013-03-02T06:49:46Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

An examination of FDI and growth nexus in Bangladesh: engle granger and bound testing cointegration approach Shimul, Shafiun Nahin; Abduallah, S.M.; Siddiqua, Salina This paper attempted at finding the long run relationship or cointegration between foreign direct investment and economic growth for Bangladesh using time series data of 1973-2007. For testing cointegration, the two modern time series econometric approaches- bound testing Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model and Engle Granger two step procedures - were executed and this study found that FDI and GDP was not cointegrated. Moreover, using Granger Causality test it was shown that the FDI and openness were not significantly causing the GDP per capital both in the short and long run. The study suggested adopting appropriate steps so that FDI can be used as a contributing factor to the economic development.

2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Nasrin, Nipa http://hdl.handle.net/10361/454 2013-03-02T06:48:43Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Richard Wright's native soon, the gaze of the white eye ironically selfblinding works as panopticon and makes the black go blind Nasrin, Nipa In Native Son Richard Wright explains the causes of the psychological blindness of the Blacks and of the Whites, along with their results. Wright illustrates how the white gaze and ideology work as panopticon and force the Blacks into a pressured and dangerous state of mind while the media constantly portrays them as animalistic brutes. This conditioning bounds the Black to react violently or to become blind towards own existence. Unknowingly the Whites also get conditioned by their deep-seated racial prejudices, despite some rare good intentions. Mrs. Dalton’s blindness represents White inability to see Blacks as anything other than the White media-enforced-stereotypes. Richard Wright deliberately suggests that America is self blinding, seeking to address the symptoms of racism while remaining incognizant of reality. In Bigger’s blindness, like Sophocles, Wright connects the idea of ‘excessive pride’ and anger. Bigger is as blind to his potentials as of the duality of the reality. This blindness, of which all the Biggers are the victims, results from the constant attack of racist propaganda and racial oppression. The Whites willingly created this dual blindness by using their ideological gaze as panopticon in order to condition Black life accordingly and to negate Black existence totally.

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