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The Financial Express

Prioritising water transport  

If rivers are subjected to continued negligence, river communication or...

Distrust: The common trait behind rise of Trump and rise of bitcoin

A 71-year-old demagogue and a currency system backed by technology...

Vegetable farmers not getting fair price

Winter is now setting in. Vegetables associated with the cold...

Checking urban environmental degradation

Bangladesh is losing 2.7 per cent of its gross domestic...

Demand-oriented research is sorely lacking

The Bangladesh Research Almanac 2017 hosted by the Bangladesh Institute...

Implications of Advance Ruling by NBR

In December, 2013, Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) was adopted by...

Concern for Rohingya orphan children

Recently the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar have signed an...

Sound pollution in the sky

Sound pollution on roads and streets is one factor that...

Global Factoring: An alternative to documentary credits

Global Factoring (GF) or international factoring is a finance-packed mechanism...

Compensating loss and damage for climate change impacts

In the word of climate change negotiations, loss and damage...

Onion causes eyes to tear more than its due

Fruits, fish, vegetables and most other eatables have lost their...

Time to make amends for climate damages  

Climate change impacts have begun emerging with increased vengeance throughout...

Subsidy in agriculture  

When Robert Malthus propounded the theory of population, very few...

The 'misfit' in a vibrant economy  

It was not that difficult for all concerned to understand...

Is not power price hike irrational?

When all power distribution companies are making hefty profit other...

Book haunts beckon readers

Amid the innumerable accesses to myriad types of e-entertainment, reading...

Fashioning the fashionables

Any relation between grey hair and wisdom has to be...

Foreign aid effectiveness and Bangladesh

Noted political philosopher Richard Miller once critiqued foreign aid as...

The tasks Annis left behind

The spontaneous outpouring of public condolences, from one and all...

Joy of learning in the midst of a desperate situation

Fourteen-year-old Muhammad smiles when he talks about what he has...

It’s time CPG manufacturers go D2C

Consumer packaged goods also known as CPG are the type...

Differentiating development from non-development    

Per capita income of Bangladesh was US$1466 last year and...

PPP success depends on financing arrangements

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are essentially long-term contracts, underwritten by government...