Word: bangladeshis
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...Microfinancing empowers Bangladeshi women. Is it driving cultural change? Lucas Torrin, Ottawa The most dramatic thing that has happened in Bangladesh in the last 25 years is the total change in the status of women. Microcredit has played a very important role in that, particularly with poor women...
...Population growth contributes greatly to global poverty. What are your thoughts about the problem? Bob O'Connor, Oslo Thirty years back, Bangladeshi mothers had an average of 6.2 children. Today the average is 3.1. The population growth rate has drastically come down and among many explanations is the empowerment of women. They became aware of their ability to handle their lives and make decisions about how many children they will have. Microcredit is not a population program, but it has helped women to see how they can live their own lives...
...find regular work. Viewed with hostility by native Malaysians competing for the same increasingly scarce jobs, Hussein, 25, says he has to keep a low profile to avoid immigration officials looking for illegal immigrants. On March 15, the Malaysian government revoked 60,000 work visas it had granted other Bangladeshis, and officials are now threatening to round up foreigners for deportation. "I am hiding and avoiding places where Bangladeshi people gather," says Hussein. If caught, he risks jail, a heavy fine, and even a whipping before being sent home. (See pictures of migrant workers in the Gulf...
...border with Bangladesh. Indeed, India assisted Bangladesh in its 1971 war of independence with Pakistan, partly out of strategic and historic needs, and has generously accommodated several million economic refugees and migrants from Bangladesh. I would now request the author to also research the economic hardships being caused among Bangladeshi farmers by dams being built in India on rivers flowing into Bangladesh, and see whether this is forcing poorer segments of Bangladesh's rural society to look across the border to India for a living. Nadeem Khan, London...
...Here, the suspicion is out in the open. After dark, no one leaves their houses, or they risk getting stopped by the BSF, who have orders to shoot if threatened. On my way back to the main road with my BSF escorts, two men cross our paths. "They're Bangladeshi," one officer says. And they send them on their way. There's an unusual feature of the Ichamati River here: every six hours it changes course. Once, people moved across it freely. Now, only the water does...