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How does public investment affect private investment?

How does public investment affect private investment?

Selim Raihan 2018-12-04 20:58:48

The importance of investment in economic growth is well acknowledged both in theory and empirical literature. No country has been able to accelerate economic growth without significantly increasing th...

Motherhood space mission to take off

Motherhood space mission to take off

Nilratan Halder 2018-11-30 20:21:12

Described as 'a small step for a baby but a giant baby-step for mankind', here is a proposed scientific venture, Mission Cradle, that has the ambitious objective of delivering a baby in space, just 25...

Politics, a poor man's spouse

Politics, a poor man's spouse

Muhammad Zakiul Islam 2018-11-30 20:20:16

Perhaps none of the words in the title needs any explanation except for the last one. ‘Bhouse’ is a bangla colloquial term widely used in rural Bangladesh. This means wife or spouse of an...

Suicides: A growing concern

Suicides: A growing concern

SM Yasir Arafat 2018-11-30 20:19:04

The issue of suicide is very under-researched in Bangladesh. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that, about 10,000 people are killing themselves every year in the country. Some studies...

Beware of workplace demons!

Beware of workplace demons!

K.M. Ali 2018-11-30 20:17:27

Is your workplace infested with corporate cockroaches? Let me be a little straight. Is your workplace psychologically safe from the verbal bites of some crooked creatures? Have you ever experienced an...

Impersonation of law enforcement  agencies is a serious crime

Impersonation of law enforcement agencies is a serious crime

Nilratan Halder 2018-11-23 21:06:18

Impersonation can be just a fun but at times a most serious business. In Chhadmabeshi, a comedy, mahanayak (super hero) Uttam Kumar plays the role of a taxi driver at the stately residence of a man. T...

Accelerating economic diplomacy

Accelerating economic diplomacy

Bashir Ahmed 2018-11-23 21:05:29

Economic diplomacy is one of the most important appliances through which governments serve their national interests. Apparently, a developing country's multilevel system of economic interests in the g...

A global pandemic

A global pandemic

Kamal Uddin Ahmed 2018-11-23 21:04:13

Violence against women is considered as a persistent, serious and extensive 'global pandemic' nowadays and takes place in every society. Declared by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in Decem...

Boosting banking business

Boosting banking business

Md. Mashiur Rahman 2018-11-23 21:03:03

Finance Minister AMA Muhith said in Parliament recently citing data of the Credit Information Bureau (CIB) of the Bangladesh Bank available until June last that the number of loan defaulters stood at...

Encountering life squarely in the face

Encountering life squarely in the face

Nilratan Halder 2018-11-16 19:35:26

If I weren't there, mother would have no tension. A sentence uttered so innocently by a city college girl shook anyone at the core of existence, provided that the person is sensitive enough. Actually...

Family interventions in  improving diabetes outcome

Family interventions in improving diabetes outcome

Fahmida Hashem 2018-11-16 19:32:20

Diabetes mellitus is a growing worldwide epidemic concern with an estimated number of 330 million people to be suffering from it by 2030. This is a disclosure viewed very importantly against the backd...

UNESCO at 73: Building better future

UNESCO at 73: Building better future

Quazi Faruque Ahmed 2018-11-16 19:31:21

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) was founded in London on November 16 in 1945. To quote from the UNESCO publication, `Its Constitution, drafted in the afte...

The economics of medical  care: Bangladesh perspective

The economics of medical care: Bangladesh perspective

Md. Shahidur Rahman 2018-11-16 19:30:27

Physicians see themselves as professionals and as healers, assisting their patients with their healthcare needs. When economists are patients, they probably see physicians the same way, but when they...

Lens making technology lesson from Taiwan

Lens making technology lesson from Taiwan

M Rokonuzzaman 2018-11-14 12:52:42

Often we think that lens making is a material-centric, labour-intensive job. To take the comparative advantage of low-cost labour, some developing countries attempted to establish their footprints i...

Untimely cherry blossoms, what next?

Untimely cherry blossoms, what next?

Nilratan Halder 2018-11-09 22:14:44

First the early cherry blossoms and now the disappearance of an island -actually an islet -- off the northern coast of Japan! The disappearance of the island follows the obliteration of a Hawaiian isl...

Investing in children for justice

Investing in children for justice

Wahida Banu 2018-11-09 22:13:56

Generally the situation of children in conflict with the law, with special focus on girls is because of relative powerlessness of poor communities. Socially excluded children regularly come into confl...

Transport strike and infants'  death: Who's to blame

Transport strike and infants' death: Who's to blame

Nashir Uddin 2018-11-09 22:12:37

The recent 48-hour strike, enforced countrywide by road transport workers, has caused an outcry among many-with rights activists putting the blame partly on the state because of its inaction to ensure...

Pushing up the governance curve

Pushing up the governance curve

Bashir Ahmed 2018-11-09 22:11:46

Bangladesh, one of the developing countries, continues to make significant efforts to improve governance. Despite successes in many important areas, institutionalisation of democratic governance has n...

Saying goodbye to alma mater

Saying goodbye to alma mater

Nilratan Halder 2018-11-02 19:45:18

At some points of life, it becomes difficult to differentiate between tears of joy and sadness. One such moment is the time when students complete their academic life and prepare for leaving their alm...

Joining the black garlic club

Joining the black garlic club

Iftekhar Hossain 2018-11-02 19:39:54

Research is an important part of science departments of world's prominent universities. Unfortunately in Bangladesh teachers of local varsities seldom engage them in research works for lack of adequat...

Why state recognition needed for Mujibnagar administrators

Why state recognition needed for Mujibnagar administrators

Helal Uddin Ahmed 2018-11-02 19:36:53

The civil servants of Bangladesh played a pivotal role in running the Mujibnagar Government (Bangladesh Government-in-Exile) during the liberation war of 1971. But it is a matter of great surprise and...

Duo's mesmerising musical soiree

Duo's mesmerising musical soiree

Asjadul Kibria 2018-11-02 19:34:25

The small gathering at the Dipanpur Book Cafe in Dhaka on October 26 last was to celebrate, to support and to recognise the musical devotion of two friends. Over the last three decades they have devot...

Negotiating CEPA with India while keeping connectivity in view

Negotiating CEPA with India while keeping connectivity in view

Asjadul Kibria 2018-10-31 21:10:03

The governments of Bangladesh and India have agreed to sign a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). Formal announcement in this regard was made in the last week of September this year i...

Now beels become the latest sightseeing spots

Now beels become the latest sightseeing spots

Nilratan Halder 2018-10-26 20:46:08

People in this part of the world have earned an undeserved infamy for living in their own cocoon. To go by the great epics unsurpassed by any ancient people, expeditions were made in the hoary past to...

Uranium’s journey from Earth’s  crust to nuclear reactor’s core

Uranium’s journey from Earth’s crust to nuclear reactor’s core

-- 2018-10-26 20:45:05

It is not a secret that nuclear power plants run on Uranium. But few are aware that before Uranium gets loaded into the core of a nuclear reactor, it has a long journey to make. Uranium ore As all o...

Tributes to a journalist-teacher

Tributes to a journalist-teacher

Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2018-10-26 20:43:44

It was a bolt from the blue to me, when I was speaking to Nargisul Alam, wife of Moyeenul Alam on October 9 in Toronto, Canada from Virginia, the USA, over telephone. I then learnt that Mr. Moyeenul A...

Charting the course to inclusive growth

Charting the course to inclusive growth

Md. Mashiur Rahman 2018-10-26 20:42:36

A report published by the UN in 2018 about the world happiness index reveals that the richest  people are not the happiest. Finland has been shown as the happiest country and the US has been rank...

Notorious business behind police box

Notorious business behind police box

Nilratan Halder 2018-10-19 20:05:07

How the police boxes came into being may be quite intriguing -only more so because of the sponsors' renewed interests in the construction of those. Their utility cannot be denied in a city that is per...

A practical aspect

A practical aspect

Raihan M Chowdhury 2018-10-19 20:03:11

A seven-year old boy during shifting of his parents' residence in Dhaka city once saw that a fridge was being carried by a porter alone from the ground floor to the fifth floor of a newly-constructed...

HR in banking profession

HR in banking profession

S. M. Waliullah Hossain 2018-10-19 20:01:45

The position of a management trainee/probationary officer in a bank is fairly lucrative among the fresh graduates in view of the career growth, remuneration package, etc. To create capable and mission...