Mirza Hassan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3684283 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mirza Hassan |
| NOMBRES | Mirza |
| APELLIDO | Hassan |
| FIRMA | HASSAN M |
| AFILIACIONES | BRAC University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Achieving gender equality through challenging social norms
Can NGOs implement rights-based gender equality programs when donor focus on the area is shrinking? This paper explores how one development program has made strategic choices incorporating the interests of multiple stakeholders, addressing donor interests while simultaneously addressing the needs of local communities. It examines the evolution of BRAC’s Polli Shomaj, a rural women’s civil society organisation designed to challenge power structure…
The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh
Violence and the breakdown of the political settlement
We explore the dynamics of the elite political settlement in Bangladesh after the democratic transition in 1991 and its impact on the elite interactions in the arena of competitive electoral democracy. We trace the history of how a political settlement around regime succession developed in the mid-1990s, and then experienced difficulties in multiple stages, and finally broke down in 2011. Violence was instrumentally used, by the ruling elites and…
The Political Economy of Domestic Tax Reform in Bangladesh
This paper explains the persistence of a tax system characterised by low revenue collection and extensive informality in Bangladesh. It combines analysis of long-term formal and informal institutions and of micro-level incentives shaping negotiation of short-term reform. The system is unusually informal, discretionary, and corrupt, but remains resistant to change because it delivers low and predictable tax rates to business, extensive opportuniti…
The advent of family planning as a social norm in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh family planning has broadened women's space within the family and society. Based on findings from ethnographic research in six villages, this paper describes how family planning came to be defined as a domain in which women are encouraged to take initiative, in contrast to other spheres of life. It traces women's experiences and perceptions of family planning in the context offertility transition, and examines some of the effects of…
The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh
The advent of family planning as a social norm in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh family planning has broadened women's space within the family and society. Based on findings from ethnographic research in six villages, this paper describes how family planning came to be defined as a domain in which women are encouraged to take initiative, in contrast to other spheres of life. It traces women's experiences and perceptions of family planning in the context offertility transition, and examines some of the effects of…
Violence and the breakdown of the political settlement
We explore the dynamics of the elite political settlement in Bangladesh after the democratic transition in 1991 and its impact on the elite interactions in the arena of competitive electoral democracy. We trace the history of how a political settlement around regime succession developed in the mid-1990s, and then experienced difficulties in multiple stages, and finally broke down in 2011. Violence was instrumentally used, by the ruling elites and…
The advent of family planning as a social norm in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh family planning has broadened women's space within the family and society. Based on findings from ethnographic research in six villages, this paper describes how family planning came to be defined as a domain in which women are encouraged to take initiative, in contrast to other spheres of life. It traces women's experiences and perceptions of family planning in the context offertility transition, and examines some of the effects of…
The Political Economy of Domestic Tax Reform in Bangladesh
This paper explains the persistence of a tax system characterised by low revenue collection and extensive informality in Bangladesh. It combines analysis of long-term formal and informal institutions and of micro-level incentives shaping negotiation of short-term reform. The system is unusually informal, discretionary, and corrupt, but remains resistant to change because it delivers low and predictable tax rates to business, extensive opportuniti…
Violence and the breakdown of the political settlement
We explore the dynamics of the elite political settlement in Bangladesh after the democratic transition in 1991 and its impact on the elite interactions in the arena of competitive electoral democracy. We trace the history of how a political settlement around regime succession developed in the mid-1990s, and then experienced difficulties in multiple stages, and finally broke down in 2011. Violence was instrumentally used, by the ruling elites and…
The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh
Achieving gender equality through challenging social norms
Can NGOs implement rights-based gender equality programs when donor focus on the area is shrinking? This paper explores how one development program has made strategic choices incorporating the interests of multiple stakeholders, addressing donor interests while simultaneously addressing the needs of local communities. It examines the evolution of BRAC’s Polli Shomaj, a rural women’s civil society organisation designed to challenge power structure…
Political science (5 obras) · Economics (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Political economy (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development (2 obras) · Business (2 obras) · Economic growth (2 obras) · Elite (2 obras)