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Bangladesh snared in its own trap to lose to Sri Lanka

If one was to find one main reason amongst many others to point to for the 1-0 defeat of the Bangladesh Test team to Sri Lanka, it must be the folly of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to have dared...

Judeo-Christian 'America': Making hay while the sun shines?

This was not what the Founding Fathers envisioned: the United...

Bangladesh's road to long-term economic prosperity: Risks and challenges

Bangladesh has come a long way since its independence in...

Liquidity pressure: Premonition of economic downturn in our Orwellian society

The term, Butterfly Effect, in the Chaos theory school of...

Freedom of expression as evolved over time

Freedom of speech has been defined as the right to...

The World Bank needs to return to its mission of poverty alleviation

The World Bank declares that its mission is to end...

From Pyeongchang to peace?

    After some two years of rising tensions on...

The Quad - a new Cold War initiative

The Quad in its current phase of reincarnation is singularly...

SAFTA - a platform for integration with global economy

There is no concrete evidence suggesting that preferential trade agreements...

Establishing pension funds and expanding capital market

Have you been thinking about your life after retirement? Do...

Moving away from the 'linear economy model' towards a 'circular economy'

China, once the final resting place for half the world's...

Fertility transition: Addressing programmatic challenges

We all know that fertility in Bangladesh has been declining...

Debates over inflation, growth, ADR and provisions: The myth and the reality

Bangladesh Bank (BB) in its recent monetary policy expressed concern...

'Lean, clean and green': A future possibility?

Key to economic progress only a generation ago was the...

A poetry fest's maturing into a great event

Few creative persons bother about how people receive their work....

Preparing for the worst

In a previous piece, this scribe had argued that Davos...

Stock market chemistry

Turbulence, disaster or other kind of obstruction - either natural...

Proposed Digital Security Act: A critique

The Cabinet has recently approved the Digital Security Act, 2016....

Overcoming the problem of NPLs

The banking sector in Bangladesh has experienced a huge setback...

Tweeter-happy Trump prefers threats and ultimatum

President Trump's state of the union speech last week focused...

Urban environmental benefits of green roofs

Different locations of a city experience varying degrees of heat...

Bangladesh growth paradox and worsening income inequality

High economic growth in Bangladesh is now a recognised fact....

Ensuring safe return of the Rohingyas

The ongoing Rohingya crisis is probably one of the worst...

Inclusive growth or else

At this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland,...

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