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Imported Inorganic Chemical Elements, Oxides and Halogen Salts in Bangladesh, 

Country of Origin Rank Value (000 US ) % Share Cumulative % 

Source Philip M. PARKER, Professor, INSEAD, copyright 2002, www.icongrouponline.com 

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Bangladesh is a developing country of 3rd world located in South East Asia covering a tenitory of 147,730 sqkm with about 120 million population. Per capita income is about 220 and literacy rate for 7 years and above has been 32.4%. In the backdrop of agrarian poverty ridden economy, its population may exceed 125 m by 2000 AD. Its 47% population are living below poverty line 12.06m people are unemployed. 

There are basically five NDT methods broadly in use at present in Bangladesh. These are ... 

World markets for vegetable fibers have been steadily declining in recent years, mainly as a result of substitution with synthetic materials. Jute has traditionally been one of the principal bast fibers (toimage basis) sold on the world market however, the precipitous decline in jute exports by India (Fig. 2) indicate the decreasing market demand for this fiber that is vitally important to the economies of India (West Bengal), Bangladesh, and Pakistan. 

Jute. Jute fiber is obtained from two herbaceous aimual plants, Corchorus capsularis (linden family, TiUaceae) originating from Asia, and C. olitorius originating from Africa. The former has a round seed pod, and the latter a long pod. Jute is grown mainly in India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Nepal, and Bra2il. 

Tamarind Gum. Tamarind gum [39386-78-9] is another seed gum with potential industrial appHcation. It is obtained from the seed kernels of the tamarind tree, Tamarindus indica which is cultivated in India and Bangladesh. The seeds are a by-product from the production of tamarind pulp which is used as a food flavor. Seed production is 150,000 t/yr. 

In contrast, during the late 1990s the poorest quarter of humanity—made up of about fifteen sub-Saharan African countries, Nepal, Bangladesh,... 

University of Science and Technology, Chittagong, Bangladesh Norwegian Structural Biology Center (NorStruct), Institute of Chemistry,... 

The help of Dr. Md A. Rahman (Ministry of Education Scholarship Student in Japan, now Senior Scientific Officer, Institute of Glass and Ceramic Research and Testing, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Dr. M. S. Bakshi (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow in Japan), and the other coworkers has been invaluable in these studies. My special thanks to Ryuich Arakawa (Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Kansai University, Japan) for his assistance with ESMS measurements must be expressed. The support by Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research (No. 07804049, 08454240, and 97468 from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan, and from Osaka City, Japan) is gratefully acknowledged. 

Hepatitis E is associated with more than 50% of the acute hepatitis cases in endemic areas (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Mexico, the Middle East, Northern Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa). The virus is primarily transmitted by the fecal-oral route. Transmission of HEV is more prominent in underdeveloped countries where sanitation is poor. 

More recently, the cultivation of tea has spread to other Asian countries such as Turkey, Iran, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Vietnam. 

Usingthe UK as a reference of course repeats the Netherlands fallacy (see above). These are not extreme reference cases Bangladesh extrapolates to a population of about 100 billion and Australia to 0.3 billion. From Principles ofPolitical Economy by John Stuart Mill, as quoted by Cohen (1995), p. 397. 

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