Shamsul S Alam

Bangladesh has gathered rich experience in planned development with the implementation offive five-year plans and one two-year plan over the last three decades. With a gap of nine years duringwhich period the country implemented poverty reduction strategy papers, Bangladesh returned tothe five year ...

Kaptai Lake is the largest man-made freshwater body in Bangladesh. Though created primarily for hydroelectric power generation, it contributes to produce significant quantity of freshwater fishes, navigation, flood control and agriculture. It is located in the Kaptai Upazila under Rangamati District...

The aim of this project is to find a suitable forecasting model for the future value of reserve money of Bangladesh bank, reserve money of Bangladesh bank during the period 1991-92 to 2008-09 collected from statistics department of Bangladesh bank. Here, I use four statistical forecasting models: Th...

Maternal health is one of the most crucially important subjects a country that is experiencing high infant and child mortality like Bangladesh. Now, it has become a major interest to demographic researchers. But it is very recent in Bangladesh. Very reasonably an attempt has been made here to find o...

This book studies postcolonial Bangladesh and shows how the state failed to create an industrial bourgeoisie class. The author explores concepts of the postcolonial state, colonialism during the British period, postcolonial Bangladesh under various regimes, the influences of democracy, and alternati...

This study is an attempt to examine the prevailing milk supply chain based on primary data collected from 55 respondents, which were randomly selected from the study area in Dhaka district. The sample included 25 producers, 15 Beparis, 10 wholesalers and 5 sweetmeat shops. Milk producers were select...

Sharp changes in agricultural prices negatively affected the entire economy as the price mechanism is not properly materialized in a highly unstable price situation. So, price behaviour analysis is significantly important to the whole economy. This work has attempted to analyze the price flexibiliti...

Using Michel Foucault's idea of governmentality, this book reinterprets various cases of revolt and popular uprisings in Bangladesh. It attempts to synthesize the theories of Foucault's governmentality and Antonio Gramsci's notions of hegemony and counter-hegemony.