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Shamsul Alam 2019-03-23 21:24:55
Bangladesh Government has approved Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 (BDP 2100) on September 04, 2018 with the aspiration of achieving 'safe, climate resilient and prosperous Delta' by 2100. In other words...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-03-21 21:35:20
Before the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the UN General Assembly Session in 1948, the prevalence of people unaware of their basic rights was almost global. Even after the ad...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-03-21 21:32:49
National University of Singapore's Parang Khanna wrote a must-read book for those keen on how the rest of the 21st century might unravel. Entitled, The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture...
Monzurul Huq 2019-03-21 21:26:13
The book 'Bangabandhu: Epitome of a Nation' contains a photograph of the cabinet formed under the stewardship of Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Haq right after the historic victory in 1954 election of the...
Mustafa K. Mujeri 2019-03-21 21:19:04
Bangladesh, as a rapidly developing nation, stands to gain the most from the inclusion of women in the business world. Women's economic participation and their ownership and control of productive asse...
M Rokonuzzaman 2019-03-19 21:20:13
The industrial revolution is not new, neither is job transformation. The human race has been in a constant pursuit of technological development to transform jobs so that these can be done at lower...
Ferdaus Ara Begum 2019-03-18 22:01:50
The contribution of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to the economy is well known. According to Bangladesh Bank, SMEs account for about 45 per cent of manufacturing value addition, about 80 p...
Md Moniruzzaman 2019-03-16 21:38:03
The price of any commodity depends on the interaction between its demand and supply. In a market economy all decisions regarding quantity of commodity, money, investment, production, consumption and...
M S Siddiqui 2019-03-15 21:04:31
China has signed and implemented 16 Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with its trade and investment partners including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Singapore, Pakistan, Maldives, Geo...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-03-14 21:05:06
Among the modern social classes, the one which appears to be the most difficult to define is the 'middle class'. Since the emergence of this class in the post-WW-II era, its character and different tr...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-03-14 21:05:05
Among the modern social classes, the one which appears to be the most difficult to define is the 'middle class'. Since the emergence of this class in the post-WW-II era, its character and different tr...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-03-14 20:56:56
Education is a crucial sector in any nation. Being a major investment in human capital development, it plays the critical role in long-term productivity and growth at both micro and macro levels. This...
Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2019-03-12 22:08:48
There is no doubt that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is already at our doors. Artificial intelligence and automation are gradually but steadily moving into industries and service sectors of develop...
Syed Ashraf Ali 2019-03-12 21:03:46
We cannot find a better set of words to describe the present state of Bangladesh economy than by borrowing, albeit with a slight variation, a line or two from Charles Dickens' classic, A Tale of Two C...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed 2019-03-10 20:40:30
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) occupies a vital position in the foreign policy of Bangladesh for political and economic reasons. Ever since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1975, KSA...
Farzana Misha and Munshi Sulaiman 2019-03-10 20:36:53
Contribution of the $30-billion readymade garments (RMG) sector, employing nearly four million workers, mostly women, to Bangladesh economy is undeniable. The industry has been growing at an average r...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-03-07 21:26:26
The educated general people of Bangladesh have still kept alive their love for books. Notwithstanding the ever increasing onslaught of virtual reading media, their passion for books shows little sign...
Syed Mahbubur Rashid 2019-03-07 21:21:24
Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist, a campaigner and an expert on both tax havens and financial centres. Some of his other books include, Treasure Island: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and T...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-03-07 21:01:32
"The north wind doth blow," a timeless western nursery rhyme observes, "and we shall have snow," it forecasted. One does not have to be in the "west" to face and feel that snow: Trump's tariffs upon C...
M Rokonuzzaman 2019-03-05 20:51:13
Opening the opportunity for adding value by capitalising on locally-available raw material, labour, innovation or capital has been the primary objective of industrial policy formulation. Recently, l...
Rafiqul Islam 2019-03-04 20:39:08
The last four decades have seen something of a financial revolution. Advances in computing & telecommunications, financial innovation and liberalisation of capital controls have combined to red...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed 2019-03-03 21:03:15
American President Donald Trump attended a two-day summit with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on February 27 and 28 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Obviously, Trump's diplomacy focused on persuading Kim to el...
Nironjan Roy from Toronto, Canada 2019-03-02 21:27:17
Three more new banks are being added to the country's banking sector. Bangladesh Bank has recently approved licensing of People’s Bank, Citizen Bank and Bengal Commercial Bank. With these three...
Rokonuzzaman 2019-03-01 22:37:48
Over the decades, Bangladesh like many other developing countries lost her top graduates to advanced countries like the USA, Canada and Australia. Those graduates pursued further education and develop...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-02-28 21:31:12
We now live in a modern, consumerist and largely urbanised world where environmental protection is a key concern related to the future of humanity. Economists, environmentalists, development professio...
Jan Lundius 2019-02-26 21:37:47
On January 25, 2017, the Trump administration signed Executive Order 13767, instructing the government to begin new constructions and replacements of walls between the US and Mexico. From December 22,...
M Rokonuzzaman 2019-02-25 21:10:21
In the early 1980s, the US was facing the problem of governing state-owned telecom monopoly through regulations. Due to information asymmetry, it was argued that the regulator was not getting a clear...
Enayetullah Khan 2019-02-24 21:46:55
The pride of Bangladesh is its rivers, with one of the largest networks in the world and a total of about 700 rivers, including the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta. This gives the country a riverine nature w...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-02-20 20:10:22
Revered as it has been, our 1952 Language Movement will perennially be remembered for the emotions we attach to our identity, not to mention all the sacrifices made on that specific February 21 date...
Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2019-02-19 20:49:08
A UK-based research body, Comparitech, has published the findings of their study on cyber security of 60 countries. In Comparitech's Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI), Bangladesh was ranked as the si...
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