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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452734303321

Autore

Muzzini Elisa <1975->

Titolo

Bangladesh [[electronic resource] ] : the path to middle income status from an urban perspective / / Elisa Muzzini and Gabriela Aparicio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank, 2013

ISBN

0-8213-9865-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Collana

Directions in Development

Altri autori (Persone)

AparicioGabriela

Disciplina

307.76095492

Soggetti

Urbanization - Bangladesh

Urban policy - Bangladesh

Economic development - Bangladesh

Electronic books.

Bangladesh Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

C1; C2; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Overview; Introduction; Bangladesh's Urban Space Today: Implications for the Growth Agenda; Envisioning the Future: A Competitive Urban Space for Growth; Figures; Figure O.1 Two Paths to a Lower-Middle-Income Bangladesh; Economic Growth Drivers in Urban Areas; Drivers of and Obstacles to Urban Competitiveness from the Perspective of the Garment Sector; Strategic Directions for Building a Competitive Urban Space in a Global Economy; References; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; The Path to Middle-Income Status from an Urban Perspective

The Importance of a Competitive Urban Space for Growth Organization of the Study; Boxes; Box 1.1 Innovation, Connectivity, and Livability as the Drivers of Urban Competitiveness; Notes; References; CHAPTER 2 Bangladesh's Urban Space Today: Implications for the Growth Agenda; Introduction; Rapid Urbanization Accompanied by Strong Economic Growth; Figure 2.1 Urbanization and Economic Development in South Asia, 1960-2009; Figure 2.2 Urbanization and Annual Growth Rates of Total, Urban, and Rural Population in Bangladesh, 1950-2010; Figure 2.3 Urbanization and per Capita Income, by Region, 2000

Figure 2.4 Composition of GDP in Bangladesh, 1990-2010



Exceptionally High Population Density; Maps; Map 2.1 Population Density of Bangladesh, 2011; Primacy of Dhaka; Figure 2.5 Cross-Country Correlation between Population Density, Urbanization, and GDP, 2000; Box 2.1 The Political Economy Advantage of Capital Cities; Figure 2.6 Urban Population in Largest Cities and per Capita GDP in Selected Countries; Concentrated Economic Production and Low Economic Density; Figure 2.7 Economic Geography of Bangladesh, 2009; Table 2.1 Employment Density in Bangladesh's Main Urban Areas, 2001-09

Figure 2.8 Economic Concentration in Largest Cities and per Capita GDP in Selected Countries Tables; Figure 2.9 Population and Economic Density of Urban Agglomerations, 2006; Figure 2.10 South Asia at Night: Economic Density Proxied by Light Emission, 2005; Specialization in Low-Value-Added, Labor-Intensive Garment Production; Figure 2.11 Export Sophistication and per Capita GDP in Selected Countries, 2006; Peri-Urbanization of Garment Employment in Metropolitan Dhaka; Figure 2.12 Export Concentration in Selected Developing Countries, 1980-2006

Figure 2.13 Formal Garment Employment in the Dhaka Metropolitan Area, 2001-09 Map 2.2 Employment Density of Garment Industry in Greater Dhaka Metropolitan Area, 2009; Map 2.3 Spatial Patterns of Manufacturing Employment in the Republic of Korea, 1960-2005; Extremely Poor Infrastructure, Low Level of Services, and Lack of Amenities; Box 2.2 Deconcentrating Manufacturing in Brazil and Indonesia; Figure 2.14 International Benchmarking of Infrastructure, Services, and Amenities  in Dhaka City, 2010; Persistent, Albeit Declining, Regional Disparities in Welfare

Benchmarking Bangladesh's Urban Features

Sommario/riassunto

Bangladesh seeks to attain middle-income status by 2021, the 50th anniversary of its independence. To accelerate growth enough to do so, Bangladesh needs to build a competitive urban space that is innovative, connected and livable. Bangladesh's urban areas have to take proactive measures to improve and sustain all three drivers of competitiveness - innovation, connectivity and livability. The results of a survey of 1,000 garment firms - conducted to provide a lens through which to investigate urban competitiveness - reveal that Dhaka City is the most productive location for garment firms in Ba



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778381503321

Autore

Huggan Graham

Titolo

Australian Literature [[electronic resource] ] : Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, UK, 2007

ISBN

1-383-03635-7

1-281-15023-1

0-19-152802-1

1-4356-0993-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Oxford Studies In Postcolonial Literatures

Disciplina

820.9358

820.9994

Soggetti

Australian literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Racism in literature

Transnationalism in literature

Literature

Australian literature - History and criticism - 20th century

English Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Australian Timeline; 1 Australian Literature, Race, and the Politics of Location; 2 Beginning Again; 3 Interrogating Whiteness; 4 Multiculturalism and its Discontents; Afterword; Notes; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Graham Huggan presents a revisionist account of the history of Australian literature, in which contemporary ideas taken from postcolonial criticism and critical race theory are used to inform fresh readings of this outstanding and sometimes deeply unsettling national literature whose writers and readers belong just as unmistakably to the wider world. - ;The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series



offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. In a provoc