Annual Report 2008 on Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is a leading edge pharmaceutical company based in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is acclaimed for its outstanding product quality, world-class manufacturing facilities, product…
Empowerment and Mobile Phones in Rural Bangladesh World developing country with the introduction of a high-tech mode of communication such as mobile phones. In Bangladeshi village most people are dependent upon middlemen…
Mobile Technology Gender and Development One problem shared by the poor in all developing countries is lack of affordable access vto relevant information and knowledge services. There is widespread consensus…
Report on Making Mobile Phone Work for the Poor Mobile phones have long been considered a luxury gadget in the western world. Prices of cell phones and pricing of air-time necessarily reflects this target…
Report on Street Children in Asia and the Pacific The Asia-Pacific Region is home to nearly half the world’s children, including large numbers of street children. This paper provides an introductory snapshot of issues…
Lecture on the Monetary System Money is the set of assets in the economy that people regularly use to buy goods and services from other people. A commodity money system…
Lecture on Consumption Consumption is a common concept in economics, and gives rise to derived concepts such as consumer debt. Generally, consumption is defined in part by comparison…
Lecture on Supply and Demand Supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It concludes that in a competitive market, the unit price for a…
Lecture on Oligopoly An oligopoly is a market form in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of sellers (oligopolists). Because there are few…
Lecture on Monopoly A monopoly is distinguished from a monopsony, in which there is only one buyer of a product or service ; a monopoly may also have monopsony…
Lecture on Firms in Competitive Market A competitive market has many buyers and sellers trading identical products so that each buyer and seller is a price taker. In a perfectly competitive…
Lecture on Elasticity and its Applications Price elasticity of demand is a measure of how much the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in the price of that…