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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the largest development plans
initiated by China which includes 65 countries covering Asia, Africa and Europe.
While Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC) is a subregional cooperation that aims to introduce new impetus to economic and social
development by linking the southwestern parts of China with northeastern
region of India and the Bay of Bengal through Yangon and Mandalay in
Myanmar, and Bangladesh. Although BCIM-EC was initiated long before the
inception of BRI, China later incorporated it under BRI platform as one of the six
economic corridors. Instead of analysing why BCIM-EC was incorporated within
BRI, the paper attempts to focus on the impediments that BRI and BCIM-EC are
facing during implementation phase. Therefore, the paper limits its scope to
examine the impediments and investigate how China as a pioneer of BRI along
with member countries of both BRI and BCIM-EC can overcome these emerging
challenges. The paper attempts to formulate policy suggestions recommending
strategies for China to overcome these impediments with the assistance and
support of all the member countries of BRI and BCIM-EC.
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ID:
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| Summary/Abstract |
The haor region, a wetland ecosystem situated in the north-eastern part of
Bangladesh in the Meghna river basin, is one of the disaster hot-spots of the
country. The area is geographically excluded and ecologically vulnerable.
Furthermore, it is a part of Bangladesh where poverty is prevalent and natural
disasters like floods and flash floods are very common. In 2017, the entire
haor region of the country was inundated due to early flash flood, generated
by relentless rain and onrush of flood water from the rivers upstream. Along
with the destruction of huge crops, the flash flood caused havoc in the region
by affecting livelihood opportunities including fisheries, duck farming, animal
husbandry etc. Based on that, the study takes an attempt to identify the
underlying factors responsible for high disaster risk of flash flood in the haor
region. The study argues that high disaster risk in the region is attributed to
multidimensional vulnerability factors which limit the coping capacity of the
people living there and make them susceptible to disasters. Apart from the
unique physical location and hydrological setting that makes the haor region
severely exposed to flash floods, the study identifies socio-political, economic,
environmental, institutional and governance related factors responsible for high
disaster risk in the region.
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161955
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