Bangladesh

Video submitted by The Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) for 2014 Global Workshop

2009 Public-Private Dialogue Workshop, 29 April 2009, Vienna, Austria

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Bangladesh Private Sector Development Support Project (147k)
Farooq Sobhan, President, and Shihab Ansari Azhar, Senior Research Associate, Bangladesh Enterprise Institute, Feb 2006
Looks at how the public-private dialogue mechanism used in the design of the PSDSP was established, its benefits and constraints, and how dialogue can be strengthened and enhanced in the future.
Bangladesh Private Sector Forum Presentation (1,160k)
Mamdood Hossain Alamgir, Director, Board of Investment, Prime Minister’s Office, Bangladesh; Mamun Rashid, CEO, Citibank N.A., Bangladesh
Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) in Bangladesh (862k)
Ferdaus Ara Begum, Chief Executive Officer of BUILD; Shihab Ansari Azhar, IFC PPD lead for South Asia; Mohammad Lutfullah, IFC PPD lead for Bangladesh.
Presented at the Public-Private Dialogue 2014 Workshop
(Frankfurt, March 3-6 2014)
Integrating PPDs into the Political Process - Lessons from Bangladesh (1,972k)
Laura Watson, Operations AdviserShihab Ansari Azhar, Stakeholder Engagement Analyst, April 29, 2009
Recent Developments in Public Private Dialogue in Bangladesh (164k)
Shihab Ansari Azhar, Stakeholder Engagement Analyst, Bangladesh Investment Climate Fund (BICF)
Presented at the 2010 Global Workshop
The Bangladesh Private Sector Forum (76k)
Craig Wilson, Program Manager, Investment Climate Assessments, SouthAsia Enterprise Development Facility – International Finance Corporation

Supporting the Bangladesh Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Organizational Transformation and Policy Advocacy

Author(s): Marc Schleifer; Maiko Nakagaki, CIPE, October 30, 2014

Since the 1980s, a remarkable transformation has been underway in Bangladesh. Once the scene of chronic famine, the country is now food self-sufficient, and its economy has averaged around 6 percent growth in recent years. In the process, a booming, export-oriented garment sector has generated employment opportunities for urban women, and microfinance has emerged as a way to channel loans to rural women entrepreneurs.

Women-owned businesses have become drivers of women’s economic empowerment. They have been leaders …