http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2780 2026-04-04T02:46:26Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2828 Book Review:- Gary Day, Literary Criticism: A New History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008, 344 Pages Edinburgh University Press 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2827 Potential Benefits and Pitfalls of IT Outsourcing from the viewpoint of Developed countries: Opportunities and Challenges for Bangladesh Sarker, Md. Zakir Hossain; Rahman, Shaila Outsourcing generally refers to the practice of farming out jobs from the home base to other countries, largely in an effort to cut costs. Software developers are among an increasing number of companies turning to outsourcing as a strategy to improve cost control, product quality, product development schedule reduction, and focus on core business activities. As IT outsourcing becomes ever more ubiquitous across the globe, corporations are taking a closer look at the scope, quality, and nature of their outsourcing agreements. By 2015, analysts predict that more than 3 million white-collar jobs in the U.S. will be farmed out to other countries, up from about 300,000 today. If that shift is inevitable, the next question becomes which countries offer the best choice. Here, in this paper some guidelines have been provided to get the answer. Several years ago, software was identified by the government of Bangladesh as having important export potential and the IT industry was declared as a thrust sector. Human resources for the IT industry have also been growing rapidly. Considering all the factors involved, this paper concludes that Bangladesh could become on of the most competitive It outsource centers for the entire first world. This paper also discusses the opportunities and challenges for Bangladesh in becoming a successful IT outsourcing country. 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2826 Government and Housing for the Poor: Policy and Implementation in Bangladesh Rahman, Mahbubur The national constitution of Bangladesh recognized that housing is a basic need, and hence it is primarily the responsibility of the government. The 1993 National Housing policy too guaranteed everybody's right to decent housing. However, in reality th poor are marginalized, and suffer from lack of resources and the bias of policy makers.The meager housing sector allocation in the National plans is mostly spent to build government offices and staff houses. Forced eviction is rampant while the most needy of the urban destitute poor is deprived of basic needs. The paper discusses urban housing in Bangladesh and shows that successive administrations have neglected the poor despite all policies, studies and government documents that stressed their particular needs. It exposes the gap between the policy and practice, and highlights the housing rights violation going on. It also notes that the city of Dhaka suffers the most, and suggests remedies. 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2825 The Sundarbans Forest Systems: Patterns of Colonial Control and Social Response to Capitalist Enterprises, c. 1830-1905 Iqbal, Iftekhar Studies of the forest have received intense and varied attention in the past few decades, generating three major trends. One relates to the discourse of destruction of forest regimes. The intervention of colonial capital as well as pressure of population growth has been understood to be contributing to such destruction. Another theme is that of conservation which has highlighted the debates around the place of origin of conservation ideas and practices. Although the initial assumption was that conservation practices started in the USA in the nineteenth century, some historians have argued later that conservation policies and practices originated in the colonial world, where the destruction of the environment was most remarkable. Recently, particularly in South Asia, there have been important discussions on the intervention of the state in forest regimes and the resistance from forest dwellers. Seen in any way, the role of capital and the colonial state have been regards as one of uninterrupted domination. While this proposition stands the test of empirical scrutiny in many respects, it blocks a more flexible reading of the varied development of capitalist intervention and colonial domination within a given ecological regime. 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z