Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transformation, contestation and challenges in Bangladesh / Rounaq Jahan and Rehman Sobhan -- Policy actions, market responses and economic growth in Bangladesh / Syed Akhtar Mahmood -- Bangladesh in dual transition: attendant challenges and the next steps / Mustafizur Rahman -- Institutional challenges in Bangladesh's economic transformation / Selim Raihan -- Fifty years of development experience of Bangladesh: an employment and labour perspective / Rizwanul Islam -- Inequality and human development: the Bangladesh perspective / M.M. Akash -- Bangladesh between world system and green growth: past trends, future trajectories / Iftekhar Iqbal -- Fifty years of human development in Bangladesh: achievements and challenges / Selim Jahan -- Contentious empowerment? women, development and change in Bangladesh / Sohela Nazneen -- Shahbagh, Shapla Chottor and Bangladesh's meandering, contending mindscapes / Fakrul Alam -- Building Bangladesh: critical orientations in architecture / Kazi Khaleed Ashraf -- The changing faces of culture: notes from a time of crisis / Syed Manzoorul Islam -- Evolution of state-society relations in Bangladesh over the last five decades: an analytical narrative / Mirza Hassan -- Islamist politics in Bangladesh: the nature, scope, and the pathway / Ali Riaz -- State-making, violence, and political muscle: Bangladesh as a polycratic state / Arild Engelsen Ruud -- Democratising the 'middle-income' dream: the coming challenge for Bangladesh at 50 / Hossain Zillur Rahman.

"Fifty Years of Bangladesh portrays the multi-faceted dimensions of Bangladesh's development journey, its economic and social transformation and political and cultural contestations. The book presents new empirical data supplemented with critical analysis of processes, actors and actions that have been the drivers of Bangladesh's transformation and offers new ways of understanding Bangladesh. Organized in six sections, the book provides a multi-disciplinary, holistic and interrelated narrative of the Bangladesh story covering its economic and social transformation, the political history and changing cultural landscapes. It presents new empirical data and proposes new theoretical and analytical frameworks to explain the country's multi-faceted developments. Capturing the vast landscape of changes that have taken place in different sectors of Bangladesh during the last fifty years, the contributors analyse the variety of Bangladesh's experiences, its achievements as well as the shortfalls and mistakes. They propose new models and perspectives to ground Bangladesh's developments, identify persistent and emerging challenges and suggest ways forward. A valuable addition to scholarship on Bangladesh, this book can be used as a reference in universities, research institutions and international development agencies interested in Development Studies, South Asian Studies and studies of the Global South"--

History & Philosophy

Sumaiya Kainat Bintey Kohinoor