ASSIGNMENT

ECO 349

Key topics:1
1. Vision 2021: Bangladeshs prospects and challenges
2. Famine in a food self-sufficient country? The case of Monga
3. Conditional and unconditional cash transfers: Achievements and Challenges
4. Gender aspects of Bangladeshs development
5. Microcredit as panacea?
6. The politics of numbers: Poverty and/or food grain estimates
7. Migration: Dead end or way out?
8. Poverty traps: A thing of the past?
9. Crisis of external dependence to crisis of aid underutilization
10. Desertification in the context of Bangladesh: Causes and Challenges Ahead
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Term paper/essay (minimum word count of 5000 words)

Journal article or book review relating to Bangladeshs economy and development
Group presentation or seminar (20 to 30 minutes)
Podcast/video/webinar
Poster presentation
6. Other creative outputs designed on your own but with prior approval from instructor

1 Please note that these are suggested topics. You can choose a topic from the aforementioned list and
adapt it to your own interest or choose an entirely new topic with approval from instructor.