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Bangladesh, a test case of disaster management, has been continuously internalizing lessons learned by the people, the bureaucracy and non‐governmental organizations (NGOs), after successfully responding to major natural disasters, particularly floods. The unprecedented flood of 1988 was a great educator to almost all stakeholders in Bangladesh. Since then, it has improved its capacity to cope with disasters despite some failures in its management of the macro‐economy and governance. Credit goes mostly to the ordinary people whose resilience and creativity during and after disasters have been quite heroic. This paper makes an attempt at documenting peoples'perception and response to major floods at different stages of the crisis. An illustrative plan for coping with flood disasters encompassing these stages has also been designed and outlined in this paper.

This paper documents the practical lessons learned from the coping mechanisms of recent disasters in Bangladesh in order to design a disaster preparedness policy, relating it with the broader developmental concerns of the country. It aims at meeting the research gap in the context of disasters and development in Bangladesh. (DSE/DÜI)

Enthält: Rahman, Atiur: Reply to a critique of 'Peasants and classes'

This contribution makes an attempt to investigate the nature and extent of the 'demand contraints' that at least potentially threaten the future viability of the hitherto very successful Grameen Bank (GB = rural bank) credit programme. It is argued that GB, though its credit programme, does not only raise the level of income of the rural poor, but also turns the income distribution in their favour. (DÜI-Sen)