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Learning foreign languages key to success in international trade

Learning foreign languages key to success in international trade

Ismail Y Syed 2017-01-25 20:38:53

Historically, networking and reliance upon contacts have been one of the core assets of international trade and one of major factors for career success. Equally, if not more, knowing one or two additi...

M.A.B Ispahani -- a great soul

M.A.B Ispahani -- a great soul

Syed Mahbubur Rashid 2017-01-24 20:01:07

At about 10 AM on Monday last the telephone operator of the Financial Express informed me that Mr. Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani was no more. He died at the early hour of the day at a local hospital. Th...

Unwary investors, beware of stock bubble

Unwary investors, beware of stock bubble

Nironjan Roy  2017-01-23 20:54:23

Constitution of portfolio is very crucial for investing in capital market because this not only ensures steady revenue from overall investment but also prevents the investors from ruining his/her fina...

Behrouze Ispahani: A wonderful person with versatile qualities

Behrouze Ispahani: A wonderful person with versatile qualities

-- 2017-01-23 20:05:22

I woke up Monday morning to the sad news that Behrouze Bhai (Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani) was no more. He passed away at Apollo Hospital (Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un) at 5:30 a.m.  He was...

Import stage VAT under new VAT law

Import stage VAT under new VAT law

Md Abdur Rouf 2017-01-22 20:11:47

The new VAT law shall come into effect from 1 July, 2017. There are some differences between the provisions of the current VAT law and the new VAT law. VAT is collected on goods and services. On goods...

From economic analysis to inclusive growth

From economic analysis to inclusive growth

Kemal Dervis and Karim Foda 2017-01-21 20:06:21

Most economies are seeking a recipe for inclusive economic growth, whereby high rates of investment, rapid innovation, and strong gross domestic product (GDP) gains are pursued alongside measures to r...

IBA marches to glory

IBA marches to glory

A K M Shamsuddin 2017-01-20 20:41:45

The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) of Dhaka University (DU) formally started in 1965. Indiana University sent Professor Oris Canin as the first advisor to IBA. He shortlisted, interviewed...

Inequality, insecurity dominate Davos forum

Inequality, insecurity dominate Davos forum

Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2017-01-20 20:33:43

Davos, at the foothill of the Alps of Switzerland renowned as ski resort, has been playing an important window known as the World Economic Forum (WEF) about global economy for the last 46 years. It wa...

Why the nation is woefully failing its children

Why the nation is woefully failing its children

Shihab Sarkar 2017-01-19 19:47:49

The findings of a report released on January 17 show a little decline in the total number of children killed in 2016 in the country compared to the previous year. But the sense of relief disappears wi...

IBA changed the course of my life

IBA changed the course of my life

A K M Shamsuddin 2017-01-19 19:45:02

The day after the final examination at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), I joined the US consulting firm PARSONS Corporation as a project engineer in their Dhaka office i...

How effective is \'trendy\' digital marketing?

How effective is \'trendy\' digital marketing?

S M Didarul Hasan 2017-01-18 19:46:55

What is digital marketing? "Achieving marketing objectives through applying digital technologies and media is called digital marketing." This is probably the simplest form of definition of digital mar...

Trump in Oval Office: Has America shot itself in the leg ?

Trump in Oval Office: Has America shot itself in the leg ?

M. Serajul Islam 2017-01-16 20:39:43

Washington is getting ready to welcome the 45th president whose inauguration will he held on January 20. The US capital is also getting ready to show a face to the new president that would be most unu...

Indo-Asia connectivity and trade facilitation: Progress and challenges

Indo-Asia connectivity and trade facilitation: Progress and challenges

Luna Shamsuddoha 2017-01-15 19:50:55

Nisha Desai Biswal, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs in the outgoing Obama Administration, once famously  said that South Asia is one of the least economically integ...

Domestic tourism shows signs of bouncing back

Domestic tourism shows signs of bouncing back

Shihab Sarkar 2017-01-12 20:15:39

Domestic tourism in the country has started picking up after the 2013-14 political mayhem ended, and with the return of normalcy. Many other sectors are also witnessing optimistic developments. Violen...

SDG: Top priority accorded to accuracy of data

SDG: Top priority accorded to accuracy of data

Shamsul Alam 2017-01-12 19:46:40

The government of Bangladesh has done the exercise of SDG Data Gap Analysis with the assistance of all data-generating agencies including the National Statistical Organisation (NSO) of Bangladesh viz....

SDG: Drawing up implementation roadmap

SDG: Drawing up implementation roadmap

Shamsul Alam 2017-01-11 19:32:35

It is well recognised that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are all inter-connected in a system. We cannot aim to achieve just one Goal. Rather we have to achieve all of them, which are called...

SDG: Drawing up implementation roadmap

SDG: Drawing up implementation roadmap

Shamsul Alam 2017-01-11 19:31:23

It is well recognised that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are all inter-connected in a system. We cannot aim to achieve just one Goal. Rather we have to achieve all of them, which are called...

Remembering the legendary Justice Murshed

Remembering the legendary Justice Murshed

M Tamijuddin 2017-01-10 19:59:12

"A drop of ink makes millions think." I am told by a very senior journalist as well as by a very elderly advocate that it was Justice Murshed who would say this. After all, during his lifetime, Justic...

Automation: No significant breakthrough so far

Automation: No significant breakthrough so far

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2017-01-09 19:51:58

Since the last few years, the NBR's tax target has been increasing exponentially. The principles of fixing the targets on each category of taxes, i.e., income tax, import tax and VAT, are not some...

Plugging holes in internal revenue mobilisation

Plugging holes in internal revenue mobilisation

Ferdaus Ara Begum  2017-01-08 20:36:58

Widening of tax net is one of the most discussed and debated issues in Bangladesh.  It is a fact that while Bangladesh is aspiring to graduate from the present level of the economy to the status of Mi...

Dangerous waters: Trump\'s Taiwan push

Dangerous waters: Trump\'s Taiwan push

Muhammad Mahmood 2017-01-07 19:34:41

A phone call from Tsai Ing-Wen, the Taiwanese President to US President-elect Donald Trump on December 02, 2016 in itself should not have caused a crisis in US-China relations.  The phone call lasted...

President Obama\'s two terms in office - in retrospect

President Obama\'s two terms in office - in retrospect

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2017-01-06 20:21:07

On January 20, 2017 President Obama will complete two terms of his presidency, relinquish his responsibility and vacate the White House. On the same evening, Donald J. Trump, the newly elected Preside...

A look at fieldwork experiences in social science research

A look at fieldwork experiences in social science research

S.M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-01-05 21:03:18

Social scientists, specifically the anthropologists, conduct their researches in many ways, but the method most characteristic of the discipline is that of fieldworks based on 'participant observa...

BTV Chittagong: Case for local TVs

BTV Chittagong: Case for local TVs

Shihab Sarkar 2017-01-05 20:59:30

The Chittagong station of Bangladesh Television (BTV) started broadcasting its own six-hour programmes daily from December 31. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the regional satellite TV channe...

Byond BRT

Byond BRT

Asjadul Kibria 2017-01-04 19:27:30

Is Dhaka destined to remain congested or jammed forever? Does the city have any alternative to save the wasting hours trapped in the terrible traffic? These are the questions that have been haunting m...

Can Saudi Arabia reform itself?

Can Saudi Arabia reform itself?

Bernard Haykel in Princeton 2017-01-02 20:16:07

In 2017, Saudi Arabia will continue to pursue the two key goals that King Salman set when he acceded to the throne in January 2015: to reduce the economy's dependence on oil revenues and governmen...

UNESCO recognition for Bangla New Year carnival

UNESCO recognition for Bangla New Year carnival

Shihab Sarkar 2016-12-29 20:11:50

The country's cultural circles have started basking in the lately earned status for the Bangla New Year, traditionally called Pahela Baishakh, procession. From now on, the colourful procession, f...

Taxation practices in the SAARC region

Taxation practices in the SAARC region

Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2016-12-28 22:17:41

South Asia, in general, and almost all members of SAARC countries in particular have a common legacy of perceptions and practices of taxation. Having common laws and regulations, mostly carried forwar...

Fallout from anti-settlement UN vote

Fallout from anti-settlement UN vote

Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA 2016-12-26 21:54:28

President Barack Obama in the last days of his presidency has been under attack from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some members of Congress plus president-elect Donald Trump. The reaso...

Better managing expenses of life insurance companies

Better managing expenses of life insurance companies

M. Shefaque Ahmed 2016-12-26 21:53:13

The long-term financial viability of a life insurance company depends on three key elements: (1) the actual management expenses incurred for carrying on its life insurance business compared to managem...