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| A publication of the Asian Development Bank | No. 5 October - December 2009 |
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Special Report •
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Asia by Numbers •
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Casual Fridays Everyday Keeping Cool
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is encouraging government employees to “dress down” in order to cut down on the use of air-conditioning. Photo by AFP Government employees in Bangladesh, including top executives, are dressing down—no suits and ties to cut down on air-conditioning use even in the summer. An AFP report said the idea came from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina herself. Bangladesh suffers from chronic power outages, which have constrained economic growth and affected progress toward achieving a key Millennium Development Goal: halving poverty by 2015. The shortage becomes more severe in the summer—from April to October. The government has revised the 1982 official dress code for civil servants to allow them to wear short-sleeved shirts, the report said. Other energy measures include adopting daylight saving time. • |
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