Ahmed Shafiqul Huque
Biographic Data
| ID | 307664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmed Shafiqul Huque |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahmed Shafiqul |
| FAMILY NAME | Huque |
| SIGNATURE | HUQUE A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0232-4493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Civil service and socio-economic progress in Bangladesh
Purpose Bureaucracy has played a prominent role in steering accelerated growth in several East and Southeast Asian developmental states. This article explores the success factors that enabled the civil service to contribute to their economic development and identifies lessons for Bangladesh to help sustain its growth trajectory. Design/methodology/approach The article adopts a qualitative approach in its analysis and arguments. After the literatu…
Does Implementation of ’Citizen’s Charter Make Any Difference in Service Delivery? Comparing the Performance of Local Councils between Plain and Hilly Areas—A Case of Bangladesh
This paper compares the impact of citizen’s charters in delivering services by Union Parishads in Bangladesh in Bengali-majority and tribal areas. Using a qualitative research method, the case study was used to look at CC implementation in a comprehensive and in-depth way. Interview and observation methods were employed to collect data. One hundred interviewees from each union, including service providers, service users, and LG officials, were co…
Electronic public service delivery
Purpose The paper aims to examine the state of electronic service delivery in Bangladesh. It reviews the structure and operation of the “e-service” centers at the district, sub-district (upazila), and union levels by taking an inventory and assessing their contributions. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a review of the functions and operations of the service delivery agencies with reference to the claims made by the government. I…
Introduction to the special issue
Introduction to the special issueThe COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was first detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has since posed a severe threat to global public health.It spread quickly between people and continents and has continued into 2023, with the emergence of new variants posing a significant challenge to containment efforts.The virus's origins and characteristics were initially unknown, causing concern and a f…
Religion in the Age of Migration
There has been little research on the significance of religion in migration studies. The objective of this article is twofold: first, to explain religion as a complexly intertwined concept within migration discourses; second, to examine the implications of various terminologies such as Islamism, political Islam, and the politicization of Islam in the modern world within a broad migration framework. We have chosen 11 respondents from different cou…
Inward Conquest
Stigma, discrimination and HIV or Aids
Purpose HIV or AIDS remains invisible and dismissed by most South Asians living in Canada as HIV or AIDS issues are perceived as an offshoot of Western lifestyle linked with drug use and promiscuity. This paper aims to look into how people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWHA) cope with prejudice and stigma. Design/methodology/approach To guide this research, a constructivist grounded theory approach was adopted as the theoretical and methodological fr…
Non-Conventional Migration
The circumstances prevailing in South Asia (SA) have led to a plateauing migration stream that has resulted in several categories of migrants. The underlying factors driving migration have been identical in all the countries of SA. In recent years, however, poverty, conflicts, political and religious persecution, natural disasters and climate change have emerged as the most prominent drivers. External migration flow from SA has more than doubled …
The Bangladeshi Rights and Protection of Persons With Disability Act of 2013
The government of Bangladesh enacted the Rights and Protection of Persons with Disability Act of 2013 (the Act) in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This article sheds light on the Act with particular emphasis on (a) support offered to children with disabilities (CWDs) and their families to address their needs; and (b) the extent to which the Act is in line with the international disability policy…
Introduction to the special issue
Policy on "Public Governance, Integrity, Performance and Inclusiveness in Asia".The nature and shape of public governance have been changing since the 1970s and taking on new patterns of interrelationships embracing structural, functional, behavioural and ethical elements.The realization of the goals of productive public governance has been an indispensable condition in most government initiatives aimed at public sector reform.National government…
Civil service reforms in Hong Kong and Thailand
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the strategies of civil service reforms in Hong Kong and Thailand. It seeks to identify the drivers of reforms in the two cases and explain the divergence in processes that were intended to achieve similar ends. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts a case study approach along with a thorough review of the literature. It is based on secondary materials, including academic studies, government…
Infrastructure, Political Conflict, and Stakeholder Interests
Public–private partnerships (P3s) offer an alternative for constructing public infrastructure by drawing upon private sector finance and expertise. This article explores the case of the construction of an inland container terminal in Bangladesh. Drawing upon a review of the literature on P3s, secondary publications, government documents, and interviews with relevant sources, the study reveals that diverse interests influenced the decision and imp…
Demoralization-led migration in Bangladesh
Political hostility, unrest and flawed governance cause insecurity leading to demoralization, which triggers migration. There is a large body of literature on the determinants of international migration that highlights a range of factors to explain the direction and strength of migrant flows. For this research we interviewed 32 respondents who were a control group in a study conducted a decade ago. These respondents were determined not to migrate…
The challenge of assessing governance in Asian states
As countries in Asia work towards achieving development, the state of governance emerged as a benchmark for them. Assessing governance is an important exercise because a country's image is influenced by its position in world rankings which plays a role in decisions by the international community regarding aid and trade. The methodology adopted in preparing the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) rankings underlines the preference for some value…
Does public participation matter? Inclusive growth in East Asia
Inclusiveness in economic development has lately emerged as a critical factor for development. This paper adopts an analytical concept of inclusive growth to evaluate East Asia’s economic success. It contests the Western conceptualization of the critical role of public participation in development, and argues that it has played a limited role in terms of inclusive growth in East Asia. Several factors have influenced the outcome of research in thi…
Managing the Public Sector in Hong Kong
Public sector management in Hong Kong was initially designed to rule the territory as a British colony. A number of changes took place in the last quarter century before Hong Kong's reintegration with China and the nature of public sector management has transformed over this period. An overview of administrative principles and practices and an analysis of changes reveal trends that were influenced by both local and international factors. The fram…
Explaining the Myth of Public Sector Reform in South Asia
The states of South Asia initiated reform in the public sector for various reasons. At times, the impetus for reform came from within the systems while there have also been pressures from powerful external actors. Reform policies in these states neglected comprehensive analyses of the issues and the problems were exacerbated by the inability of the leadership to resist external pressures to guide reforms in certain directions. The policies were b…
Shifting emphasis in the role of the state
Studies on the role of the state and its control over the economy favour a reduction of state involvement in the process. While such efforts were conducive to the political and economic arrangements in the capitalist world, China presented an entirely different challenge. The state played a dominant role in the production and delivery of all public goods and exercised effective control over the economy in China. However, the changing circumstance…
Performance Measures and Security Risk Management
Public agencies have an important role in establishing and ensuring a secure environment for business operations. Risk management decisions by international business enterprises can be informed usefully by performance data related to the services provided by a host country‘s law enforcement agencies. As recent public sector reforms have emphasized the development of indicators and the measurement of performance in public organizations, such as th…
Globalization and Reunification
When Hong Kong reintegrated with China in 1997, one critical issue was whether the flourishing center of economic activity with an efficient administrative framework would lose its advantages and become just another city of the People's Republic of China. This article examines the process of managing transition as socialist China tries to accommodate capitalist Hong Kong. With strong forces of globalization at play, both units have had to embark …
Government-Society Relations and the Politics of Administrative Reform in Hong Kong
Administrative reforms are usually implemented for enhancing efficiency, reducing expenditure and improving the quality of public services. External and internal political forces may sometimes prompt reforms. All these factors have been responsible to some extent for the reform attempts undertaken in Hong Kong over the past three decades. Another factor that is not usually recognised in studies on reform is the relationship between the government…
Managing Public Services
Managing public services managing public interest managing public information managing public confidence managing public infrastructure crises, strategies and lessons. Apendix I: crisis - retirement of a senior civil servant. Appendix II: crisis - bird flu. Appendix III: crisis - non-prosecution of a prominent personality and Xinhua News Agency, and the right of abode controversy. Appendix IV: crisis - opening of Hong Kong International Airport
United They Survive
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Study Area Chapter 3 Analysis of Leadership in Kushiara: The Gonnahmannah Lok Chapter 4 Kinship, Dana-Pana and the Unity: The Inclusive System Chapter 5 Economic Bases of Leaders' Power in Kushiara Chapter 6 The Language of Dan-Khairat and the Avoidance of Kriponota Chapter 7 Human Services Delivery and kushiara Leadership: The Practice of Dan-Khiarat Chapter 8 Conclusion and Policy Implication
Decentralization and Local Politics
One region, many issues”, and the Enigma of Hong Kong
Li Pang‐kwong (ed.), Political Order and Power Transition in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997), 272 pages Beatrice Leung and Joseph Cheng (eds.), Hong Kong SAR: In Pursuit of Domestic and International Order (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1998), 332 pages
The Ubiquity of Islam
T HE BIRTH OF PAKISTAN, of which Bangladesh was a part from 1947 to 1971, was the result of a demand for a separate homeland for one of the principal religious communities of the Indian subcontinent, the Muslims. Later, the idea of religious nationalism was discarded when Bangladesh was born, in 1971, out of a movement based on secular principles. The leaders of the Bangladesh movement were successful in articulating the demands for independence,…
Militarisation and opposition in Bangladesh
(1989). Militarisation and opposition in Bangladesh: Parliamentary approval and public reaction. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 172-184
Demoralization-led migration in Bangladesh
Political hostility, unrest and flawed governance cause insecurity leading to demoralization, which triggers migration. There is a large body of literature on the determinants of international migration that highlights a range of factors to explain the direction and strength of migrant flows. For this research we interviewed 32 respondents who were a control group in a study conducted a decade ago. These respondents were determined not to migrate…
The challenge of assessing governance in Asian states
As countries in Asia work towards achieving development, the state of governance emerged as a benchmark for them. Assessing governance is an important exercise because a country's image is influenced by its position in world rankings which plays a role in decisions by the international community regarding aid and trade. The methodology adopted in preparing the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) rankings underlines the preference for some value…
Shifting emphasis in the role of the state
Studies on the role of the state and its control over the economy favour a reduction of state involvement in the process. While such efforts were conducive to the political and economic arrangements in the capitalist world, China presented an entirely different challenge. The state played a dominant role in the production and delivery of all public goods and exercised effective control over the economy in China. However, the changing circumstance…
Hong Kong
Public sector management in Hong Kong is facing major challenges as the territory has undergone substantial changes in the past four decades. A small government, following a policy of nonintervention in a colonial setting, has resulted in a highly structured system whereby it is more convenient to plan and coordinate administrative activities. This centralised structure and the prevailing role culture have combined to facilitate the implementatio…
Religion in the Age of Migration
There has been little research on the significance of religion in migration studies. The objective of this article is twofold: first, to explain religion as a complexly intertwined concept within migration discourses; second, to examine the implications of various terminologies such as Islamism, political Islam, and the politicization of Islam in the modern world within a broad migration framework. We have chosen 11 respondents from different cou…
Inward Conquest
Stigma, discrimination and HIV or Aids
Purpose HIV or AIDS remains invisible and dismissed by most South Asians living in Canada as HIV or AIDS issues are perceived as an offshoot of Western lifestyle linked with drug use and promiscuity. This paper aims to look into how people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWHA) cope with prejudice and stigma. Design/methodology/approach To guide this research, a constructivist grounded theory approach was adopted as the theoretical and methodological fr…
Non-Conventional Migration
The circumstances prevailing in South Asia (SA) have led to a plateauing migration stream that has resulted in several categories of migrants. The underlying factors driving migration have been identical in all the countries of SA. In recent years, however, poverty, conflicts, political and religious persecution, natural disasters and climate change have emerged as the most prominent drivers. External migration flow from SA has more than doubled …
The Bangladeshi Rights and Protection of Persons With Disability Act of 2013
The government of Bangladesh enacted the Rights and Protection of Persons with Disability Act of 2013 (the Act) in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This article sheds light on the Act with particular emphasis on (a) support offered to children with disabilities (CWDs) and their families to address their needs; and (b) the extent to which the Act is in line with the international disability policy…
Managing the Public Sector in Hong Kong
Public sector management in Hong Kong was initially designed to rule the territory as a British colony. A number of changes took place in the last quarter century before Hong Kong's reintegration with China and the nature of public sector management has transformed over this period. An overview of administrative principles and practices and an analysis of changes reveal trends that were influenced by both local and international factors. The fram…
Government-Society Relations and the Politics of Administrative Reform in Hong Kong
Administrative reforms are usually implemented for enhancing efficiency, reducing expenditure and improving the quality of public services. External and internal political forces may sometimes prompt reforms. All these factors have been responsible to some extent for the reform attempts undertaken in Hong Kong over the past three decades. Another factor that is not usually recognised in studies on reform is the relationship between the government…
The illusion of decentralization
Does public participation matter? Inclusive growth in East Asia
Inclusiveness in economic development has lately emerged as a critical factor for development. This paper adopts an analytical concept of inclusive growth to evaluate East Asia’s economic success. It contests the Western conceptualization of the critical role of public participation in development, and argues that it has played a limited role in terms of inclusive growth in East Asia. Several factors have influenced the outcome of research in thi…
The impact of colonialism
L'A. etudie l'impact du passe colonial sur le developpement politique, les institutions politiques, les partis politique et la constitution du Bangladesh
Public administration in Bangladesh
Development Programs in Bangladesh
Development programs in Bangladesh have been affected in the past by unequal emphasis on infrastructure and people‐building. Some programs emphasize the hardware of development, which provides physical facilities that are supposed to make life more comfortable for rural citizens. The hardware must be supplemented by software, which will enable rural inhabitants to make optimum utilization of physical facilities. This important aspect has been neg…
Economic development and democratization
1995). Economic development and democratization: Hong Kong's experience. Asian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 49-64
Elections in Bangladesh
(1993). Elections in Bangladesh. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 248-261
Biharis in Bangladesh
(1988). Biharis in Bangladesh: the third great migration, vol. viii:2. Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Journal: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 373-380
Politics, parliament and local government reform
Politics, parliament and local government reform
The illusion of decentralization
Bangladesh. Society, Politics and Bureaucracy
The Ubiquity of Islam
T HE BIRTH OF PAKISTAN, of which Bangladesh was a part from 1947 to 1971, was the result of a demand for a separate homeland for one of the principal religious communities of the Indian subcontinent, the Muslims. Later, the idea of religious nationalism was discarded when Bangladesh was born, in 1971, out of a movement based on secular principles. The leaders of the Bangladesh movement were successful in articulating the demands for independence,…
Biharis in Bangladesh
(1988). Biharis in Bangladesh: the third great migration, vol. viii:2. Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Journal: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 373-380
Militarisation and opposition in Bangladesh
(1989). Militarisation and opposition in Bangladesh: Parliamentary approval and public reaction. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 172-184
Politics and Administration in Bangladesh
Elections in Bangladesh
(1993). Elections in Bangladesh. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 248-261
Renunciation, De‐Stigmatisation and Prevention of Crime in Hong Kong
Governments around the world seek to devise methods and mechanisms for preventing crime as well as rehabilitating offenders. The Triad Renunciation Scheme in Hong Kong presents an interesting case study of a positive innovation in this area. The scheme was intended to arrest the growth of triad societies by allowing a chance for members to sever ties with illegal organisations. While considerable interest was generated, political and economic pre…
Governmental Change and Constitutional Amendments in Bangladesh
Development Programs in Bangladesh
Development programs in Bangladesh have been affected in the past by unequal emphasis on infrastructure and people‐building. Some programs emphasize the hardware of development, which provides physical facilities that are supposed to make life more comfortable for rural citizens. The hardware must be supplemented by software, which will enable rural inhabitants to make optimum utilization of physical facilities. This important aspect has been neg…
Transition and the Localization of the Civil Service in Hong Kong
Economic development and democratization
1995). Economic development and democratization: Hong Kong's experience. Asian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 49-64
Public Administration in the NICs
The four dragons of Asia - Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea - have achieved remarkable progress over the past decades. These newly industrialising countries (NICs) have emerged as major ac
Hong Kong
Public sector management in Hong Kong is facing major challenges as the territory has undergone substantial changes in the past four decades. A small government, following a policy of nonintervention in a colonial setting, has resulted in a highly structured system whereby it is more convenient to plan and coordinate administrative activities. This centralised structure and the prevailing role culture have combined to facilitate the implementatio…
Public administration in Bangladesh
Teaching Public Administration in Hong Kong
The impact of colonialism
L'A. etudie l'impact du passe colonial sur le developpement politique, les institutions politiques, les partis politique et la constitution du Bangladesh
New Rhetoric, Old Directions
n event of great significance takes place every October in Hong Kong: the n head of government presents his policy address to the legislature. Eagerly awaited by various groups in the society, the address sets out the issues that policies should address, the methods to be used, and the objectives to be achieved over the course of the next year, along with implications for the future. Thus the policy address has an impact on business, education, p…
Public Administration in the NICs
One region, many issues”, and the Enigma of Hong Kong
Li Pang‐kwong (ed.), Political Order and Power Transition in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997), 272 pages Beatrice Leung and Joseph Cheng (eds.), Hong Kong SAR: In Pursuit of Domestic and International Order (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1998), 332 pages
Social Policy in Hong Kong
Decentralization and Local Politics
Managing Public Services
Managing public services managing public interest managing public information managing public confidence managing public infrastructure crises, strategies and lessons. Apendix I: crisis - retirement of a senior civil servant. Appendix II: crisis - bird flu. Appendix III: crisis - non-prosecution of a prominent personality and Xinhua News Agency, and the right of abode controversy. Appendix IV: crisis - opening of Hong Kong International Airport
United They Survive
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Study Area Chapter 3 Analysis of Leadership in Kushiara: The Gonnahmannah Lok Chapter 4 Kinship, Dana-Pana and the Unity: The Inclusive System Chapter 5 Economic Bases of Leaders' Power in Kushiara Chapter 6 The Language of Dan-Khairat and the Avoidance of Kriponota Chapter 7 Human Services Delivery and kushiara Leadership: The Practice of Dan-Khiarat Chapter 8 Conclusion and Policy Implication
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