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Changing currency holding patterns during the pandemic   

Changing currency holding patterns during the pandemic  

Md Ezazul Islam and Md Rashel Hasan 2021-04-05 21:38:22

Currency in circulation (CIC) issued by Bangladesh Bank (BB) increased sharply by 22.13 per cent in FY20 compared to 9.97 per cent growth in FY19. Currency outside of Bank (COB) holding by the house...

Data-driven female leadership is key

Data-driven female leadership is key

Prabhjot R Khan and Mitali Nikore 2021-04-05 20:45:22

"Women in Leadership," the theme of the 2021 International Women's Day celebration, raised two big questions: What will leadership look like in the wake of Covid-19, and why do we need more female lea...

How to find balance between work and life

How to find balance between work and life

ANINDETA CHOWDHURY   2021-04-05 12:35:12

Are you feeling that you are split between two worlds? Don’t think we are talking about any cosmic science here. We are indicating the worlds that we have to maintain everyday – personal a...

Slow-healing scars: The pandemic's legacy

Slow-healing scars: The pandemic's legacy

Sonali Das and Philippe Wingender 2021-04-04 20:59:54

Recessions wreak havoc and the damage is often long-lived. Businesses shut down, investment spending is cut, and people out of work can lose skills and motivation as the months stretch on. But the rec...

KOICA's 30-year contribution in Bangladesh for LDC graduation

KOICA's 30-year contribution in Bangladesh for LDC graduation

YOUNG-AH DOH 2021-04-04 15:50:37

This year 2021 is a momentous year for Bangladesh, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the Republic of Korea. KOICA is celebrating its 30th anniversary to further deepen the existin...

Fifty years of Bangladesh and its capital

Fifty years of Bangladesh and its capital

Shihab Sarkar 2021-04-01 21:49:33

Even 10 long years after the independence of the country, its large cities had not seen much change. The capital Dhaka had to wait up to the 1990s to see much of its infrastructural change in some maj...

Ensuring quality education and healthcare

Ensuring quality education and healthcare

Farzin Mumtahena and Narayan Das 2021-04-01 21:47:24

Bangladesh achieved an impressive economic growth rate of 5.57 to 8.15 per cent during the fiscal years 2009-10 to 2018-19. In the last fiscal year 2019-20, despite being struck by the coronavirus pan...

Economic issues in an elaborated frame

Economic issues in an elaborated frame

Asjadul Kibria 2021-04-01 21:47:12

Economic issues are critical and complex. For the policymakers, it is always challenging to deal with these complex issues, especially in a developing country like Bangladesh, where the informal porti...

The delusions of high-tech warfare

The delusions of high-tech warfare

Patrick Cockburn 2021-03-31 20:24:01

Asked what he would do if the British army invaded Germany, Bismarck said that he would tell the police to arrest them. In the wake of the latest British defence review, cutting the size of the conven...

Beijing-Washington acrimonious diplomatic discourse

Beijing-Washington acrimonious diplomatic discourse

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Falls Church,Virginia, United States 2021-03-31 20:08:41

The senior officials of the Chinese government and the US State Department officials met in a city in Alaska from March 18 to 19. This was the first encounter the Chinese government had with the Biden...

Pandemic and economic crisis: What does experience show

Pandemic and economic crisis: What does experience show

Rizwanul Islam 2021-03-28 20:18:18

The Covid-19 pandemic that started at the beginning of 2020 is still raging in many parts of the world. Although the rate of infection fell somewhat during summer, it started to rise again in autumn,...

A potential superpower in sports to recognise

A potential superpower in sports to recognise

AHMED TANVIR 2021-03-28 09:12:50

Let’s imagine a scenario: On 26 March, 2071, at Dhaka’s Mirpur Cricket Stadium, Bangladesh face India in the final match of ICC World Cup. Chasing India’s challenging target of 315 r...

Lift the blockade on Yemen now

Lift the blockade on Yemen now

Charles Pierson 2021-03-27 20:06:01

Since 2015, the United States (US) has been assisting a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which is at war with Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels.  The coal...

Bangladesh at 50: The soul-searching of a nation

Bangladesh at 50: The soul-searching of a nation

MD ZIAUR RAHMAN 2021-03-27 09:36:51

Pursuit of happiness has been made a matter of rights of individuals in the statecraft of the West. However, when the whole world has shown euphoria about growth of GDP (gross domestic product) to mea...

The promises Bangladesh made to its people

The promises Bangladesh made to its people

Rezaul Hannan Mithun 2021-03-25 17:38:45

As Bangladesh completes 50 years of its independence, it’s time to revisit what the spirit of the founding fathers was in order to keep the new generation informed about the state’s pledge...

Dream of people-centric policymaking, governance proper

Dream of people-centric policymaking, governance proper

CHOWDHURY NABILA TASNIM 2021-03-24 09:45:25

As Bangladesh celebrates the golden jubilee of its independence, a retrospection of the country’s journey suggests an upward trajectory in terms of various development attainments. The nation h...

Abuse of government emblem and seals

Abuse of government emblem and seals

Mohiuddin Babar 2021-03-22 21:52:28

For quite a long time now, there has been a trend of counterfeiting of various products in our society. With globalisation in place and free market economy bubbling up every new day, counterfeiting br...

QUAD leadership pledges new areas of cooperation

QUAD leadership pledges new areas of cooperation

Muhammad Zamir 2021-03-21 20:53:20

Even before taking his oath of Office and immediately afterwards, President Biden expressed his dissatisfaction about the manner in which Trump carried out his foreign policy. He also signaled that un...

Male engagement for gender equality

Male engagement for gender equality

Mehzabin Rupa and Rubayat Ahsan   2021-03-21 20:17:37

In Bangladesh, the distribution of household work and child-care mirrors traditional perceptions of men and women's roles in the family. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (2018), wome...

Syrian crisis slides to back burner but sufferings persist

Syrian crisis slides to back burner but sufferings persist

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury  2021-03-18 21:59:50

In March 2011 when Syria mired into civil war, Joe Biden, the then Vice President of the United States declared that "when a state engages into atrocity, it forfeits its sovereignty" and pledged uncon...

Visualising Dhaka as 'Venice of South Asia'

Visualising Dhaka as 'Venice of South Asia'

Shihab Sarkar 2021-03-18 20:07:08

The very mention of rivers in Bangladesh beside cities and towns brings to mind a common view. Most of them are in their death throes, with their streams choked by mindless pollutions, especially dump...

Cluster development -- a New Normal sustainable SME financing strategy

Cluster development -- a New Normal sustainable SME financing strategy

Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2021-03-15 20:27:13

Clustering is a recognised strategy to strengthen and consolidate SMEs through promoting interconnectedness, competition, and cooperation. Policymakers take interest in the cluster based SME developme...

The ICC and Israel's charge of anti-Semitism

The ICC and Israel's charge of anti-Semitism

Neve Gordon 2021-03-14 20:49:14

We are at a critical historical juncture in which it is becoming increasingly difficult to criticize Israel without being branded an anti-Semite. You are an anti-Semite if you support the Internationa...

Climate crisis, economic growth and beyond

Climate crisis, economic growth and beyond

Muhammad Mahmood 2021-03-13 21:07:52

The successful landing of the Perseverance Rover on the Mars on  February 18 is a monumental  scientific and technological achievement for mankind. It is premised that the mission among othe...

Gaining speed in the 21st century aviation

Gaining speed in the 21st century aviation

Shihab Sarkar 2021-03-11 20:58:33

In terms of Biman Bangladesh Airline's slow-expanding fleet, optimistic people can take heart. Although it started its journey with its lone DC-3 on January 4, 1972, for a ceremonial opening Biman had...

Practicing appreciation: A little 'thank you' can make a big difference

Practicing appreciation: A little 'thank you' can make a big difference

KANIZ FATEMA 2021-03-11 13:08:25

If you are trying to be happier, I bet you have heard about this advice to exercise appreciation, and why not? Appreciation is one of the greatest positive reinforcements there are in the world. The p...

Decoupling in the digital era

Decoupling in the digital era

Daniel Garcia-Macia and Rishi Goyal 2021-03-10 22:03:40

Technology wars are becoming the new trade wars. In the race to dominate the technologies of the future, the competition between the United States (US) and China has led to import and export bans of 5...

How chess can make a difference in pandemic

How chess can make a difference in pandemic

NAUFEL ANWAR ISHAQ 2021-03-09 15:49:00

During the early sixth century, the youngest Gupta prince invented an eight by eight ‘Ashtapada’ board game for setting a scenario of how his brother had been killed in the battle and for...

Rethinking economics during the pandemic

Rethinking economics during the pandemic

Samuel Bowles and Wendy Carlin 2021-03-08 20:17:25

Many workers deemed essential during the pandemic-such as those in eldercare, supermarkets, and distribution warehouses-are unable to make ends meet even in good times. And during the Covid-19 crisis...

Engendering the Recovery: Budgeting with women in mind

Engendering the Recovery: Budgeting with women in mind

Antoinette Sayeh, Jiro Honda, Carolina Renteria, and Vincent Tang 2021-03-07 21:59:16

International Women's Day, March 8, marks a year from the start of widespread lockdowns in response to Covid-19. As a blog of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned back in July, women have born...