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In this chapter we seek to examine how far the hypotheses set out in Chapter 1 are sustained by the evidence in the case of a particular product group, soap, in a typical low-income developing country, Bangladesh. Our principal interest is the analysis of the demand patterns for the various soap products in Bangladesh, their relationship to the choice of technology and employment, and the policy implications of these relationships.
A. K. A. Mubin collected the basic data for this study while a postgraduate student at the University of Strathclyde (UK), where he was assisted by David Forsyth, Reader in the Department of Economics.
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These are summarised in A. Mubin and D. Forsyth, ‘Appropriate Products, Employment and Income Distribution in Bangladesh: A Case Study of the Soap Industry’ (Geneva: ILO, 1980; mimeographed World Employment Programme research working paper; restricted).
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Mubin, A.K.A., Forsyth, D.J.C. (1984). Technology, Employment and Income Distribution: The Soap Industry in Bangladesh. In: van Ginneken, W., Baron, C. (eds) Appropriate Products, Employment and Technology. ILO Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06824-1_2
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