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Bangladesh, India, the United States: On the same page?

Bangladesh, India, the United States: On the same page?

Imtiaz A. Hussain   2020-02-23 20:52:58

Can Bangladesh, India, and the United States fit in the same foreign policy breath? Exploring two forthcoming summits may help expose some possibilities: US President Donald J. Trump's travel to Ind...

2020 Delhi election results: Making some sense of it

2020 Delhi election results: Making some sense of it

Muhammad Mahmood   2020-02-22 21:05:57

The Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party (AAP) led by Arvind Kejriwal returned to power in the state of Delhi after winning  62 out of 70 seats in the Legislative Assembly elections held on February 08...

Fiscal policies for women's economic empowerment

Fiscal policies for women's economic empowerment

Stefania Fabrizio, Daniel Gurara and Lisa Kolovich in Washington DC 2020-02-22 20:59:18

Making sure that opportunities to enter the workforce are fair and rewarding for women benefits everyone. Yet, the average female workforce participation rate across countries is still 20 percentage...

Trump's "currency manipulation" con

Trump's "currency manipulation" con

Anne O. Krueger 2020-02-22 20:42:58

Would you believe the following story if you heard it? Imagine a small, rural town with one general store that sells to, and buys from, the farmers living in the surrounding area. Owing to their large...

Remembering an argumentative Bangladeshi

Remembering an argumentative Bangladeshi

Kazi Iqbal 2020-02-21 11:10:37

His premature demise did not hit the headlines of national dailies. Nor would many people outside his close circle know or remember who Dr. Kazi Ali Toufique was. His name will not ring any bell to ma...

The death of an eminent columnist

The death of an eminent columnist

Raihan M Chowdhury 2020-02-21 11:07:20

Mohammad Badrul Ahsan, an embodiment of wisdom, humility and lover of humanity, left us on February 06, 2020, at the age of 60 years. Educated in Economics at Dhaka University, George Washington Univ...

Waning asset quality: Banking sector challenges and way out

Waning asset quality: Banking sector challenges and way out

Md. Asiful Huq 2020-02-19 20:23:25

Rising non-performing loan in the country's banking sector, especially in state-owned scheduled commercial banks, for the past few years put serious threat to Bangladesh's financial sector.  Ho...

In fire-hit rural Australia, climate debate burns deep

In fire-hit rural Australia, climate debate burns deep

Kate Lamb 2020-02-18 21:41:46

Returning from a morning feeding his sheep, Jeff McCole, a 70-year-old farmer, paused to take in the bittersweet scene - a few droplets of rain falling onto the remains of his fire-ravaged home. "Not...

Engaging women in trade: Policy  and financial constraints   

Engaging women in trade: Policy  and financial constraints  

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2020-02-18 20:15:44

Women in Business  (WiB) can be   considered as an important driver for ensuring gender equality and women empowerment.  Without engaging women in economic and entrepreneurial...

Are US allies paying the cost for US-China trade reconciliation?

Are US allies paying the cost for US-China trade reconciliation?

Poonam Mulchandani   2020-02-18 20:12:51

Signing of phase 1 trade deal between US and China has come at a cost for other partner countries. Bilateral deals are usually dictated by discrimination. With the increasing proliferation of trade...

BD's Islamic finance industry keeps booming

BD's Islamic finance industry keeps booming

Gulf Times 2020-02-18 20:05:18

Recent news that Bangladesh’s central bank approved the conversion of two more local banks to fully-fledged Islamic banks warrants taking a closer look at the Shariah-compliant banking and finan...

Westlessness: A wayward wind?

Westlessness: A wayward wind?

Imtiaz A. Hussain 2020-02-17 21:03:09

'Westlessness' was popularised by the Munich Security Conference from Valentine's Day this year. Britain's lack of presence at Munich security conference sparked concern among allies, noted AP. US C...

Sustaining Bangladesh's economic miracle

Sustaining Bangladesh's economic miracle

Hasnat Abdul Hye 2020-02-17 20:47:18

That there is no unresolved miracle behind Bangladesh's spectacular economic performance over the past three decades is now evident to all. Earning the epithet of 'economic role model' has not been ea...

Psychological pricing: Consumer behaviour and business motive

Psychological pricing: Consumer behaviour and business motive

Sanjida Akter Shompa 2020-02-17 20:42:55

Eid Big Sale! Winter Sale! New Year Sale! Buy One Get One Free! 70 per cent Off in Many Products! These are some of the offers that are common nowadays in market places as well as online. This is a ki...

Redefining land and labour concept   

Redefining land and labour concept  

Gazi Mahabubul Alam and Shahadat Hossain   2020-02-16 20:54:08

Although any production function comprises four elements (i.e. land, labour, capital and entrepreneurship), the geneses are land and labour. Capital has become a core element for the production fu...

Floating classrooms bring education to flooded communities in BD

Floating classrooms bring education to flooded communities in BD

Global Voices 2020-02-16 17:35:23

Shikkha Tori, which literally means ‘the boat of education’, is an innovative programme by non-government organisation BRAC that allows children living in some of the most flood-prone...

Toward virus crossroads?

Toward virus crossroads?

Dan Steinbock     2020-02-15 21:34:42

With the new coronavirus - the 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV ARD) - there are now (8 pm Wuhan time, Feb 10) over 42,600 confirmed cases worldwide. If the current pace p...

Will shadow banking remain in the shadow?

Will shadow banking remain in the shadow?

Md. Harun-Or-Rashid   2020-02-15 21:29:35

After the great depression and the Glass-Steagal Act, commercial banks were tightly regulated in order to safeguard stability of the financial system. Conventional banks are more regulated, closely mo...

Managing uncertainty in journey of innovation   

Managing uncertainty in journey of innovation  

M Rokonuzzaman   2020-02-14 21:49:08

In the age of the fourth industrial revolution, a diverse development agenda starting from attaining sustainable development goals to empowering youth to meeting milestones of economic aspiration larg...

Developing academic writing skills in English

Developing academic writing skills in English

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2020-02-13 20:19:16

Writing is an art which helps a person to express himself effectively. It is one of the ways that we translate our thoughts for other people. Some people are better at expressing themselves in writing...

Coronavirus: A flashback to biological warfare of a bygone era

Coronavirus: A flashback to biological warfare of a bygone era

Ameen Izzadeen in Colombo, Sri Lanka     2020-02-12 20:22:53

In the wake of the latest coronavirus outbreak, movie buffs are drawing an eerie parallel with the film Contagion, a 2011 thriller based on a lethal airborne virus called Nipah and how the world's med...

Palestinian President Abbas: US offers Palestinians  'Swiss cheese' state   

Palestinian President Abbas: US offers Palestinians 'Swiss cheese' state  

Arshad Mohammed and Steve Holland   2020-02-12 20:15:50

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, appearing before the United Nations Security Council, on Tuesday rejected US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace proposal as a gift to Israel and unaccept...

Next challenges of Bangladesh's RMG

Next challenges of Bangladesh's RMG

Sunera Saba Khan   2020-02-11 21:22:17

The growth of the country's readymade garments (RMG) sector has been rather insignificant during 2016-17 and 2017-18 fiscal years as it grew by 0.2 per cent and 8.7 per cent respectively. However, g...

Financial repression versus economic growth

Financial repression versus economic growth

Helal Uddin Ahmed   2020-02-11 21:18:11

Financial repression may be defined as direct government intervention that alters the equilibrium in the financial sector. It is usually aimed at providing cheap loans to business firms and governme...

Day zeros: How the local impacts the global

Day zeros: How the local impacts the global

Imtiaz A. Hussain   2020-02-10 22:00:55

'Day zeros' are not days when positives and negatives cancel each other out, leaving a zero balance. Nor are they futuristic moments when pollution, for instance, is reduced to nothing, or plastic u...

Not a decade to spare for climate action

Not a decade to spare for climate action

Johan Rockström, Lars Heikensten and Marcia McNutt in Potsdam, Germany 2020-02-10 21:52:26

The last decade was the hottest on record, according to independent data analyses from NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The reality of climate change is sinking in, w...

Inflation, expected inflation,  and interest rate spread

Inflation, expected inflation, and interest rate spread

Abdullah A. Dewan   2020-02-10 21:49:02

The new interest rate caps (6.0 per cent on deposit and 9.0 per cent on lending) will have its debut on April 1, 2020. In a February 06 piece entitled "Should all loans come under 6-9pc ceiling?" (Drs...

Five decades of Bangladesh-Japan economic relations

Five decades of Bangladesh-Japan economic relations

Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2020-02-09 20:32:26

Today (Monday) is the 48th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and Japan. Since independence in 1971, Bangladesh has consistently maintained good relations with Japan a...

Small banks in India: Resourcefulness vs  operational soundness

Small banks in India: Resourcefulness vs operational soundness

B K Mukhopadhyay 2020-02-09 20:26:57

In India, spiralling prices of essential commodities are currently leading to spurt in food price inflation, fluctuating liquidity in the system alongside lower-than-expected credit off-take, topsy-tu...

Global growth continues to slow down: Implications for Bangladesh

Global growth continues to slow down: Implications for Bangladesh

Muhammad Mahmood 2020-02-08 21:02:00

Synchronised global slowdown as indicated in the World Economic Outlook published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in October last year, now appears to be even getting worse. At the same tim...