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Mowshumi Sharmin and Sima Rani Dey 2019-06-09 21:07:06
The 92-page election manifesto of the country's ruling party ahead of the parliamentary election last year had the prime slogan "My village - My town". It was the first time in the history of Banglade...
Nilesh Nimkar in Thane, Maharashtra, India 2019-06-08 21:38:12
When we look at learning outcomes for children, we only look at standardised tests, ignoring any indigenous knowledge, language, or problem solving strategies they might have. The brick kilns of Sona...
Sima Rani Dey and Md Monirul Islam 2019-06-08 21:33:59
In the last six years, Bangladesh has been maintaining a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate between six and seven per cent in a bid to reach its aspired goal of becoming a developed economy by 2...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed 2019-06-08 21:10:16
The 14th summit of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) took place in Makkah on May 31 - June 01, 2019. Heads of governments and states and delegates of 57 countries joined the conference. The th...
Md Touhidul Alam Khan 2019-06-03 21:36:39
Every year world Environment Day promotes environmental awareness and sustainability. It highlights the importance of global environmental issues- including climate change, marine pollution and wildli...
Mustafa K. Mujeri 2019-06-03 21:32:44
Bangladesh presents a very interesting case study on public sector intervention in the rice sector. Over time, different strategies that the government has adopted to strike a delicate balance between...
Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2019-06-02 20:58:05
Export earnings and remittances from migrant Bangladeshi workers have been keeping the foreign currency reserve of Bangladesh buoyant over the past few decades. Contribution of remittance to the re...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram in Kuala Lumpur and Michael Lim Mah Hui in Penang 2019-06-01 21:48:53
Over recent decades, the scope, size, concentration, power and even the purpose and role of finance have changed so significantly that a new term, financialisation, was coined to name this phenomen...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed 2019-06-01 21:43:20
Japan was one of the first few nations to recognise independent Bangladesh on February 10, 1972. Ever since diplomatic relations began, there has been continual engagements and mutual collaboration be...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-05-30 21:45:21
Notwithstanding the spontaneous tributes to Muhammad Khasru after his death on last February 19 at 73, the younger generation appeared to be a little confused. They had deep respect for him, heard of...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-05-30 21:31:21
The term 'research' brings before us "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of thi...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-05-30 20:59:44
What began as an European economic integration just after World War II (the European Coal and Steel Community, or Schuman Plan, in 1950), finds itself in desperate need of political integration seven...
Nironjan Roy from Toronto, Canada 2019-05-29 21:24:52
Non-Performing Loans (NPL) is the most complicated and long-standing problem of our country's banking industry. Chronic NPL problem is not only ruining our banking sector but also adversely affecting...
Asjadul Kibria 2019-05-29 21:16:28
Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) is one of its core instruments of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This is the only multilateral mechanism to address trade related disputes among the different member...
Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire 2019-05-29 20:55:31
In recent years, images of young Africans attempting to reach Europe, sometimes through the most daring and desperate routes, have become a fixture on global and national news channels. Cynical politi...
Tapash Chandra Paul 2019-05-28 22:15:38
Banks play a pivotal role in mobilisation and allocation of resources in an economy. Deposits and advances are termed as inflow and outflow, i.e. the funds of the banks. The loans and advances are dep...
Harold James in Princeton, New Jersey, USA 2019-05-28 21:25:43
The European Parliament elections that concluded on May 26 turned out to be a Game of Thrones replay - a long and complex story with a surprising and, for many, unsatisfactory outcome. As with Game of...
Hasnat Abdul Hye 2019-05-27 21:40:31
It is one of the cardinal errors in poverty alleviation programmes that it is assumed the poverty reduction process is irreversible i.e those who make to the other side of poverty line do not slide do...
Pranab Bardhan in Berkeley, California, USA 2019-05-26 21:28:44
The failure of the Indian state to provide basic public services and implement job-creating infrastructure projects was a prominent theme in the country's recent general election. In this regard, crit...
Muhammad Zamir 2019-05-26 21:23:33
Over the last two years, the world has witnessed the tragic deaths of thousands of people from different countries drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean while try...
Muhammad Mahmood 2019-05-25 21:40:05
Trade negotiations held between the US and China a couple of weeks ago in Washington broke up within a day (10 May 10) without any agreement in the wake of Trump jacking up tariffs...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-05-25 21:33:27
Asia has been in the news increasingly this century, mostly as the dominant variable of each piece of writing. Some have pushed it behind the steering-wheel of global policy-making. Kishore Mahbubani'...
Andrew Donaldson 2019-05-25 20:50:49
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa led his ruling African National Congress (ANC) party to a comfortable victory in the country's parliamentary election earlier this month. But engineering the ec...
Asjadul Kibria 2019-05-23 21:46:18
Developed countries and multinational entities have long been accused of indulging in unfair and distorted trade practices. Oxfam International along with its 13 affiliates initiated the campaign 'Mak...
Rehman Sobhan 2019-05-22 20:27:20
As we moved into the 21st century a new more sustainable set of opportunities for the Third World to construct a more just and balanced global economic order has presented itself. The onward thrust of...
Tapash Chandra Paul 2019-05-21 21:19:48
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations (UN) at the end of 2015 immediately after achievement of the MDGs. The SDG Agenda was adopted after extensive consultations...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-05-20 20:19:01
The GDP magic may have gone, but though it needs replacement, we are unlikely to match the coherence and stability the GDP tool once fetched. The daunting task of developing a GDP replacement should k...
Mark Suzman 2019-05-19 21:03:12
Twenty-five years ago, South Africa held its first free elections after the end of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) won overwhelmingly, and its leader, Nelson Mandela, began to knit the...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-05-16 21:19:10
Since the 1980s, higher education and research have developed rapidly in Asia. This has been a logical consequence of booming economic growth in countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea....
Md Abdur Rouf 2019-05-15 20:58:26
Few issues have arisen regarding the implementation of the new VAT law (Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act, 2012). Determination of threshold is one of them. There are several questions regard...
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