ICT in Microfinance: A Bangladesh Perspective Md. Badruddozza Mia, Coordinator of Computer in Development Programme, PROSHIKA The movement for harnessing the potential of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the development of the poor is gaining momentum around the world. Microfinance has already played a remarkable role in poverty reduction endeavours in the less developed countries. Better financial services for the poor through the appropriate use of ICTs could help the microfinance
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Kangbashi district is filled with skyscrapers, government buildings, museums and theatres. Kangbashi looks just like another rising urban center of prosperity, except that there is hardly anyone living there even though it was originally designed to house and entertain one million people. It has been infamous for being the largest ‘ghost city’ in China and unfortunately, it is not the only one. China’s economy has been growing rapidly over the past decades and so is realty business, but problems follow
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Gender Roles and Disney The Disney princess has become one of the most iconic symbols of Walt’s ever growing empire. The disney Princess’ franchise first began in 1937 with the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs making Snow White the first princess in the now infamous princess lineup. The franchise continues with the most recent disney princess movie Tangled ( Rapunzel) which came out in 2011. Disney and their filmmakers caused great controversy with their princess’ such as race. Disney broke
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f~wgKv বাংলাদেশ একটি উন্নয়নশীল দেশ এবং জনসংখ্যার প্রায় অর্ধেক নারী। যখন নারী অর্থনৈতিক ও সামাজিকভাবে ক্ষমতাপ্রাপ্ত, তারা হয়ে পরিবর্তনের জন্য একটি শক্তিশালী হাতিয়ার। গ্রামাঞ্চলে বিশ্বের উন্নয়নশীল, নারী খেলতে চলমান একটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ভূমিকা পরিবারের এবং প্রধান করা কৃষি অবদান উৎপাদন. শিক্ষা দীক্ষা জ্ঞান গরীমায় আজ নারী সমাজ পুরুষের পাশাপাশী সমান যোগ্যতায় অগ্রসর হয়ে চলছে। সেদিনের সেই অভিশপ্ত নারী ধর্মের গন্ডি পেরিয়ে আজ নিজেকে সুপ্রতিষ্টিত করতে চায় তার দায়িত্ব ও কর্তব্য বজায় রেখে। যুগ পরিবর্তনের
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The Lady of Shalott The Lady of Shalott is cursed to stay in her tower, weaving the sights she sees in her mirror. The appearance of Lancelot prompts her to turn and look directly upon the world. She leaves the tower and, as she floats down to Camelot in a boat, dies. What does Tennyson make you feel about the Lady in his poem The Lady of Shalott? Support your ideas with details from the poem. What does Tennyson make you feel about Lancelot in The Lady of Shalott ? Refer to details in the
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a group of 839 people living permanently within the village between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2007 (Basurko et al, 2013). The information about the number of people for each domiciliary, the total of confirmed cases of Plasmodium vivax and house GPS coordinates were obtained to search for spatial or temporal clusters using Kurlldorf’s statistical method (Basurko et al, 2013). There are some limitations to this study as they only focused on one village and a limited number of people that were
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During the industrial revolution men became increasingly identified with the public world of production and wage labour. While women were confined to the private sphere of consumption and the home. This is where conjugal roles come in; these are roles played by the husband or boyfriend and wife or girlfriend in a married or cohobating couple. The item suggests that some sociologists see the family as a march of progress where as others see it as unequal and patriarchal. Functionalists, like
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these circumstances these children are compelled by their poor parents (who are prone to illiteracy and unawareness) to work even if it is affecting their childhood because the nominal wages that are brought home by these children helps to run their houses. Working in factories promises these poor children a fixed amount of money throughout the month over labor in other forms such as working on the streets and signals and gives the employers cheap labor (who may be literate or illiterate). In country
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Andy Wachowski’s The Matrix (1999) can be regarded as an illustration of the post human condition, an extreme illustration nearing the end of human life. While Matrix viewers are more interested in virtuality and the Real, the movie articulates significant post humanist concepts surrounding embodiment, human consciousness, and entropy. When considering what is human, or what constitutes humanness ‘the body’ has been of significance, however, moving into a posthumanism era embodiment has seemed
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The hazards presented by volcanic and seismic events have the greatest impact on the world’s poorest people. To what extent do you agree? A geologic hazard is an extreme natural events in the crust of the earth that pose a threat to life and property, for example, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and landslides. Volcanic hazards include ash, pyroclastic flow, lava, lahars, landslides, glacial melt and disturbances to the air quality. Seismic hazards can include the initial shaking, buildings
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