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Rooftop solar power -- a sustainable option for Bangladesh

Rooftop solar power -- a sustainable option for Bangladesh

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2019-11-08 21:28:03

The days are coming soon when buyers will not be interested to buy from firms which are not using carbon-neutral energy. As carbon footprint for fossil fuel is high, manufacturing industry needs to mo...

Air quality monitoring results show alarming signs

Air quality monitoring results show alarming signs

Mushfiqur Rahman 2019-11-08 20:36:41

Cool and dry months are expected now in Bangladesh. Dhaka air is already letting us know that the city is dusty and unhealthy. Not only in Dhaka, all the major towns and urban growth centres of Bangla...

Isms, prisms, & schisms: 'Gods' that invariably fail

Isms, prisms, & schisms: 'Gods' that invariably fail

Imtiaz A. Hussain   2019-11-07 21:34:02

In a year when the global economy is headed south, that is, going berserk, old laments have woken up. Neo-liberalism is on the line, indeed, long poised to take the blow: after its heydays in the 19...

Removing barriers to a vibrant bond market

Removing barriers to a vibrant bond market

Asjadul Kibria   2019-11-07 21:22:56

A working committee formed by the government few months back prepared a report titled 'Comprehensive framework on the development of bond market in Bangladesh.' Three dozens of recommendations were...

Offshore banking in Bangladesh and impact of recent regulatory changes

Offshore banking in Bangladesh and impact of recent regulatory changes

Md. Shaheen Iqbal 2019-11-06 20:28:27

Offshore banking in Bangladesh came into being in 1985 through a Bangladesh Bank circular, mainly to create greater financing opportunities at the Export Processing Zones (EPZ). Since then it has beco...

Man, machines & the resource menu: Mending a broken circle

Man, machines & the resource menu: Mending a broken circle

Imtiaz A. Hussain   2019-11-04 21:48:12

Even as the global economy keeps shrinking this year, key political leaders stubbornly refuse to gulp and take one step back so we can all move forward next time. Even as a 16-year-old shakes, rattl...

De-dollarisation of reserve currency: Reality checks

De-dollarisation of reserve currency: Reality checks

Abdullah A. Dewan 2019-11-04 21:38:56

Sporadic hiccups of de-dollarisation moves by Chinese yuan and the euro notwithstanding, the US dollar has been enjoying the envious status of the world's most predominant reserve currency for decad...

Abrar Killing: A wake-up call

Abrar Killing: A wake-up call

Hussain Imam   2019-11-03 20:46:56

Abrar Fahad, a second year student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), was brutally beaten to death by some of his fellow students in a medieval style with all the muscle an...

Indo-Pacific strategy:  Growing opportunities for shared prosperity, sustainable growth

Indo-Pacific strategy:  Growing opportunities for shared prosperity, sustainable growth

Earl R. Miller   2019-11-02 21:25:20

There is nowhere I would rather be U.S. Ambassador than Bangladesh at this point in history.  As I near the one-year anniversary of my arrival in this remarkable country, I feel extraordinarily...

Agro-food processing industry in Bangladesh: An overview

Agro-food processing industry in Bangladesh: An overview

Muhammad Mahmood 2019-11-02 21:17:42

The agro-food processing industry constitutes an important industry in the manufacturing sector in most countries. This industry is an important part of the manufacturing sector in Bangladesh which no...

Some miss letters badly, some pick email

Some miss letters badly, some pick email

Shihab Sarkar 2019-10-31 21:36:40

Rabindranath Tagore's Amol in his play titled 'Dakghor' waits for a letter from the king with least signs of fatigue. Amol fantasises about being free of his confinement in his small room. He has been...

Workload & wires: Killing us softly?

Workload & wires: Killing us softly?

Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-10-31 20:08:45

Just the metamorphosis of the term "burned out" tells us how rapidly and irrevocably society has changed over the past generation. From being a reference to "life-management" to becoming an "occupat...

CONCLUDING CLEAN DEAL IN PURCHASING LAND

CONCLUDING CLEAN DEAL IN PURCHASING LAND

Nuzhat Rifa Ehsan 2019-10-30 20:13:35

In our common psyche, owning a piece of land is important. But while buying a land we cannot fully determine what is right or wrong, and sometimes become victims of deception. Additionally, documents...

Longer term financing and its tradability

Longer term financing and its tradability

Mehdi Rahman 2019-10-30 20:11:17

Business entities, established with capital injected by owners, are of different types - sole proprietorship, partnership, joint stock and so on. Whatever name is given, a business entity belongs to...

Life insurance -- a 'sunrise industry' in Bangladesh

Life insurance -- a 'sunrise industry' in Bangladesh

Adeeba Rahman 2019-10-29 21:29:33

Living in a high growth era, people in Bangladesh are on the path of experiencing prosperity through increase in per capita income, entrepreneurship development, consumption growth and rapid urbanisat...

Beyond the headlines: The development story behind irregular migration

Beyond the headlines: The development story behind irregular migration

Achim Steiner at UN Headquarters in New York   2019-10-29 20:16:04

Last week, a too-familiar human tragedy captured news headlines. 39 people were found dead inside a shipping container on an industrial estate in Essex in Southeast England; 31 men and 8 women whose...

Philips Curve: Flat, dormant or dead?

Philips Curve: Flat, dormant or dead?

Abdullah A Dewan 2019-10-28 20:51:49

High-growth monetary policy to combat unemployment tends to push inflation up and slow-growth policy to combat inflation tends to raise unemployment. This inverse inflation - unemployment trade-off ha...

Curbing meddling by the tobacco industry

Curbing meddling by the tobacco industry

Mary Assunta and Ulysses Dorotheo in Bangkok, Thailand 2019-10-28 20:35:17

The tobacco industry's new rhetoric that smoking is harmful and that its so-called less risky products will reduce the global tobacco epidemic, should see the industry stop opposing or fighting govern...

Soaring solar energy: Flat-footed Bangladesh?

Soaring solar energy: Flat-footed Bangladesh?

Imtiaz A. Hussain   2019-10-28 20:25:32

Who would believe the United States would be taking a giant step towards a solar future during the presidency of Donald J. Trump? Well, it happened this year, with no Trump input: mid-way through 20...

Why rich cities rebel: Three recent cases

Why rich cities rebel: Three recent cases

Jeffrey D. Sachs in New York 2019-10-27 21:08:00

Three of the world's more affluent cities have erupted in protests and unrest this year. Paris has faced waves of protests and rioting since November 2018, soon after French President Emmanuel Macron...

Economic diplomacy: South and South-East Asian perspective

Economic diplomacy: South and South-East Asian perspective

Muhammad Abdul Mazid   2019-10-27 20:33:36

Economic diplomacy is the use of the full spectrum economic tools of the state to achieve its national interest,  including external economic sector, foreign aid or  official development ass...

Truth vs. Trump on immigration

Truth vs. Trump on immigration

Anne O. Krueger 2019-10-27 20:17:18

Webster's Dictionary defines "emergency" as "a sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence requiring immediate action." By that standard, US President Donald Trump's claim that the United States fac...

Interactive engagement between economic strength and security

Interactive engagement between economic strength and security

Muhammad Zamir 2019-10-27 20:09:35

Countries with economic power normally also possess military power. This combination helps them to deploy, when necessary, substantial force that enables them to influence events in the internationa...

Is the Non-Aligned Movement still relevant?

Is the Non-Aligned Movement still relevant?

Manssour Bin Mussallam in Geneva   2019-10-26 21:30:18

By the time of publication, representatives, senior officials, and Heads of State and Government of 120 countries from around the world will have converged on Baku in Azerbaijan for the XVIIIth Summ...

Global economic outlook, 2019-20: Synchronised global slowdown

Global economic outlook, 2019-20: Synchronised global slowdown

Muhammad Mahmood 2019-10-26 21:18:52

The World Economic Outlook report published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on October 15, 2019 cut its forecast for global growth rate this year to its lowest level since the 2007-08 Global...

Swiftly ending tobacco epidemic requires government action, not empty promises

Swiftly ending tobacco epidemic requires government action, not empty promises

Mark Hurley in Washington DC 2019-10-25 21:52:29

New information published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report shows that action taken by just 11 countries - most of them low- or middle-income - has resulted in 20 million fewer adult tobacc...

Locking China out of the dollar system

Locking China out of the dollar system

Paola Subacchi in London 2019-10-23 20:51:28

The recently announced "phase one" agreement between the United States and China has been touted as an important step toward a comprehensive deal that ends the trade war that has raged for over a year...

Financing sustainable development: The role of development banks

Financing sustainable development: The role of development banks

Jomo Kwame Sundaram in Kuala Lumpur and Anis Chowdhury in Sydney 2019-10-23 20:20:11

Public or state development banking will be vital to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, argues UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2019 (TDR 2019). Ongoing World Bank-led efforts seek to...

Trading with India: Non-tariff barriers, anti-dumping charges

Trading with India: Non-tariff barriers, anti-dumping charges

Hasnat Abdul Hye 2019-10-23 20:14:52

India is among the most protectionist countries in the world, said the US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross while visiting New Delhi recently. Though not a revelation, his comment must have ruffled th...

Japan's craftsmanship spirit and innovation economy

Japan's craftsmanship spirit and innovation economy

M. Rokonuzzaman   2019-10-22 21:06:50

There appears to be a high contrast between craftsmanship and modern industrial economy. Often craftsmanship focuses on tinkering in perfecting and making handmade objects. It's the job of an artisa...