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113379
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Since its inception in 1945, the United Nations (UN) has been playing a pivotal role in restoring peace and maintaining security by taking several measures. One of the regular UN activities is to arrange the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) intending to gather all the Heads of States and Governments to discuss multiple challenging issues faced by the member states nationally and globally. As the continuation of the UN action, the 66th UNGA held in September 2011 came up with several pertinent issues like climate change, global recession, food crisis, nuclear safety and terrorism. Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also attended the 66th UNGA and proposed a six-point multi-dimensional peace model addressing a number of national and global vulnerabilities including poverty and hunger, inequality, climate change and terrorism. It is in this context that the paper tries to focus on the issues discussed in the 66th UNGA and give an assessment regarding the steps taken by the assembly considering its existing limitations. Concurrently, the paper takes an attempt to analyse the role of Bangladesh as a developing country in the 66th UNGA session. The paper argues that through arranging UNGA for more than 60 years, the UN still tries to provide a unique venue for the member countries to discuss complex national and global issues and solve international disputes. More importantly, it is a common platform for small countries like Bangladesh to raise their voice, place their demands and to work together against the common global challenges.
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113378
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This paper investigates the dynamic relationships between output, energy consumption, carbon emission and price levels of Bangladesh during the period 1973-2009 using multivariate vector error-correction model. To complement the findings of the co-integration analysis, this study performs various causality tests to shed light on the causal links between output-energy and output-pollution. The empirical results reveal that in Bangladesh there is short-run unidirectional causality from energy consumption to output. The direction of causality indicates that any energy conservation measure might be detrimental to the current Bangladesh economy. Since Bangladesh cannot aggressively implement energy conservation mechanisms, the only environment-friendly policy option could be to implement clean energy technologies. Therefore, this paper further investigates the prospects of clean energy technologies and offers some way forward in this regard for Bangladesh.
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113381
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2011.
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The European Convention on Human Rights is considered as the premier document, which gives the highest degree of protection to individual rights. Since 1953, the Convention has been playing an important role in promoting the ideas of individual human rights. By contrast, the developments of globalisation are posing a number of challenges in realising individual rights. However, development of the concept of individual human rights in Europe has gone through a long process of evolution. Therefore, the objectives of this paper are to evaluate the evolution of individual rights in Europe, and to examine how far the European Convention on Human Rights is addressing the emerging realities of globalisation.
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113380
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Over the years, free trade has been an issue of great debate. The present paper tries to examine whether free trade is conducive for the development of the developing nations. Instead of focusing on the rhetoric attached to free trade, it makes an attempt to look into the flaws in comparative advantage theory, which is a theoretical foundation of free trade. A considerable part of the paper is devoted to analyse some concerning facts related to free trade. The paper concludes that protectionism along with some appropriate government policies should be the way forward for the developing economies before their industries are exposed to free trade regime.
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113377
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2011.
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Currently, the government of Bangladesh is interested to strengthen economic ties with African countries through pursuing its 'Look Africa' policy. It is widely perceived that Bangladesh has considerable untapped economic potential in African countries which are endowed with abundant oil, minerals and agricultural land. By undertaking a field-based primary investigation, this paper attempts to examine the potential of Bangladesh's investment in Agricultural sector in Liberia, an African country with plentiful agricultural land. It suggests that Bangladesh can benefit from both full and joint-venture investment in rice, other food grains, fruit production, and agro-processing industries.
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