http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2787 2026-04-06T01:02:03Z 2026-04-06T01:02:03Z Kapoor, Dip http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2878 2019-03-13T07:07:17Z 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Critical Explorations into the Politics of Institutionalized/Estatized-Human Rights and Adivasi Displacement and Dispossession in India Kapoor, Dip This paper advances the proposition that a dialectical appreciation of the politics of state-institutionalized human rights in colonial and neoliberal hegemonic (imperial) contexts helps to shed light on why Adivasis facing development displacement and dispossession are unlikely to advance their political and existential interests through recourse to an estatized human rights mechanism embedded in global and national political and economic structures imbricated in the historical projects of colonialism and imperialism (globalization of capitalism). Adivasi social movement inspired “human rights” (and related conceptions) informed by an anti-colonial/imperial project that transgresses these trajectories continue to provide the primary political impetus for asserting the continued place of Adivasi. The paper is informed by funded research into “learning in Adivasi social movements in eastern India” (2006-2009), the author’s long-stranding relationship with Adivasi/rural movements/activism in this region since the early 1990s and secondary literature/reports addressing the politics of human rights in Adivasi contexts of development displacement and dispossession.

0001-01-01T00:00:00Z Richards, Cameron http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2877 2019-03-13T07:07:17Z 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Most Important New Literacy?: Overcoming Seemingly Impossible Obstacles to Make ‘Education for All’ and Related UNESCO Goals and Policies a Reality in the 21st Century Richards, Cameron Aspirations to achieve UNESCO’s millennium goals by 2015 increasingly seem to many people as an ever remote possibility and even an impossible or utopian dream. With reference to the particular policy commitment of ‘Education For All’, this paper will explore two related questions. Firstly, it poses the question of whether UNESCO is projection of goals such as education for all by 2015 or indeed any date is really an impossible notion? Secondly, if we accept the proposition that a dramatic change in the global human condition should be and can be possible in practice and not just as utopian projection, then what is needed to overcome negative self-fulfilling prophecies of failure to achieve the ‘right direction’ of knowledge and action? In response to these two questions, the paper pursues a thought experiment which in practice as well as in principle refuses to accept the inevitability of the present reality that there is an ever-widening knowledge as well as economic gap between modern, rich and developed countries and traditional, poor and developing societies.

0001-01-01T00:00:00Z Arafat, Mohammad A. http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2876 2019-03-13T07:07:17Z 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consumer Choice of Soft Drinks: A Causal Path Analysis Arafat, Mohammad A. This paper presents a framework for assessing consumer perceptions on soft drinks evaluation. This study clarifies the roles of perceived quality, perceived product attributes, perceived product availability and perceived product price in evaluating process of consumers’ soft drinks choice. To test hypotheses, data were collected from 592 respondents. Data were analyzed via structural equation models using Amos 5.0. Results from structural equations analysis revealed consumer perceived quality in Bangladesh as shown in the model-fit. In particular, it was found that when consumers evaluate the quality of a product, they may retrieve the constructs directly related to quality. One of the shortcomings of this study is that variables like brand image, packing, advertising techniques may play important roles in understanding consumer perception about choosing soft drinks that were not included.

0001-01-01T00:00:00Z Moniruzzaman, Md. http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2875 2019-03-13T07:07:17Z 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Estimation of Export Supply Model of Bangladesh: Cointegration and Vector Autoregressive Approaches Moniruzzaman, Md. The broad objective of this study is to empirically estimate the export supply model of Bangladesh. The techniques of Cointegration, Engle-Granger causality, Vector Error Correction and Vector Auto-regression are applied to estimate the models of this study. Structural breakpoint or stability of the variables and impulse responses are also conducted in this study. The econometric analysis is done by using the time series data of the variable of interest which is collected from the secondary sources. The study has empirically tested the hypothesis and long run relationship and casualty between variables of the models. The study findings reveal that the trend growth rate of aggregate export is higher in post-liberalization period as compared to the pre-liberalization period. The Cointegration analysis shows that all the variables of the study are cointegrated at their first differences meaning that there exists long run relationship among the variables.

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