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Are food delivery platforms a boon or threat for restaurants?

Are food delivery platforms a boon or threat for restaurants?

MUHAMMED ASIF KHAN 2021-03-07 13:08:18

One of the most defining disruptions in the global restaurant space over the last decade has been the advent of food delivery platforms. In the past, most people would have had to visit a restaurant p...

Glacier blast: Solution lies in managing cascading risks

Glacier blast: Solution lies in managing cascading risks

Sanjay Srivastava 2021-03-06 21:09:07

On 7 February 2021, the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, in the outer western Himalayas. At least 61 people were killed and around 143 are still missing. This disaster...

Averting a great divergence during the pandemic

Averting a great divergence during the pandemic

Gita Gopinath 2021-03-06 20:54:08

The Covid-19 pandemic and the widespread lockdowns imposed in 2020 led to the worst peacetime global contraction since the Great Depression. The first half of 2020 saw record collapses in output and o...

Bangabandhu's finest hour

Bangabandhu's finest hour

A Qayyum Khan 2021-03-06 20:50:37

On March 1, 1971, I was watching an unofficial cricket test match between Pakistan and the touring MCC at Dhaka Stadium. Cricket matches were a lot of fun and I did not miss the opportunity to witness...

New challenges and opportunities for export industries of Bangladesh

New challenges and opportunities for export industries of Bangladesh

Mushfiqur Rahman   2021-03-04 20:32:17

Bangladesh has been proudly celebrating fifty years of its Independence. This great achievement has coincided with the United Nations' acknowledgement of the country's graduation from LDC to the devel...

The tortuous journey to freedom

The tortuous journey to freedom

Shihab Sarkar 2021-03-04 20:15:24

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had much doubt about the eventual survival of the 2-wing Pakistan. On August 15, 1947, the leader was staying at his 'Baker Hostel' in Kolkata. The British colonial g...

Coups d'etat: The familiar tales we remember

Coups d'etat: The familiar tales we remember

Syed Badrul Ahsan 2021-03-02 20:47:04

The Myanmar envoy to the United Nations, Kyaw Moe Tun, has publicly denounced the coup d'etat in his country and has asked the global body and its member-states to take action against the military lea...

Big sale, big profit for consumers, what’s in there for sellers?

Big sale, big profit for consumers, what’s in there for sellers?

KANIZ FATEMA 2021-03-02 12:33:01

‘No’ is perhaps the most important, and certainly the most powerful, word in any language. But there are a few things we simply cannot say no to, and sale is one of those. Even if we succe...

Bangladesh's rising middle class: Myths and realities

Bangladesh's rising middle class: Myths and realities

Mustafa K Mujeri   2021-03-01 20:58:00

According to one Brookings study, the world witnessed an important 'global tipping point' for the first time in the history of human civilisation in September 2018 when the numbers of the people liv...

BD external sector performance: A tale of multiple narratives

BD external sector performance: A tale of multiple narratives

Fahmida Khatun, Mustafizur Rahman, Khondaker Golam Moazzem, and Towfiqul Islam Khan 2021-03-01 20:18:52

From the perspectives of turnaround, rebound and recovery, the Bangladesh external sector performance evinces a mixed picture as one traces the developments from the vantage point of February 2021. On...

Resolving non-performing loans incurred during Covid

Resolving non-performing loans incurred during Covid

Muhammad Zamir   2021-02-28 20:32:15

Banking sectors all over the world are facing a common dilemma-- recovery of significant corporate debts incurred by individuals as well as institutions to stay afloat during the ongoing Covid pande...

The poorest countries and debt vulnerabilities

The poorest countries and debt vulnerabilities

Punam Chuhan-Pole 2021-02-27 22:02:08

Countries eligible to borrow from the International Development Association (IDA)-the World Bank's fund for the poorest countries-entered the Covid-19 crisis already facing elevated debt levels and we...

Military coup in Myanmar and the Rohingyas

Military coup in Myanmar and the Rohingyas

Muhammad Mahmood 2021-02-27 21:05:33

On February 1, the military in Myanmar overthrew the government led by Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) that was re-elected in the election held in November 2020 with an increased majority. The military back...

Ibrahim Khalid will be remembered for his ideology

Ibrahim Khalid will be remembered for his ideology

Nironjan Roy from Toronto, Canada 2021-02-26 20:09:52

Veteran banker, Khandaker Ibrahim Khalid is no more. Although he recovered from Corona virus infection, he finally succumbed to old age complications. We pray to the Almighty for the peace of his depa...

Stemming the rot approaching Bangla

Stemming the rot approaching Bangla

Shihab Sarkar   2021-02-25 20:37:18

Few can imagine a French child and his mother speaking English at their dining table in the morning; or the father, preparing for going to office speaking in favour of the boy engaged in an argument...

President Biden's thirty days in office

President Biden's thirty days in office

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury  2021-02-25 20:24:46

February 20, marks the first thirty days of the Biden Administration. It has inherited a caustic situation orchestrated by the previous administration which not only refused to accept the electoral ou...

Covid-19 stimulus packages and performance of the country's banking sector

Covid-19 stimulus packages and performance of the country's banking sector

Fahmida Khatun, Mustafizur Rahman, Khondaker Golam Moazzem, and Towfiqul Islam Khan   2021-02-24 19:54:17

Banks have a crucial role to play in implementing Covid-19 related stimulus packages announced by the government since the major portion of these packages is in the form of liquidity support through t...

Valerie Taylor and her CRP

Valerie Taylor and her CRP

Hasnat M Alamgir 2021-02-23 21:48:44

Valerie Taylor's 77th birthday was on February 08. She was born in 1944 in a far away land, but she has lived in Bangladesh for half a century with a mission- a mission that has touched the lives of m...

Structural factors and central bank credibility limit inflation

Structural factors and central bank credibility limit inflation

Gita Gopinath 2021-02-23 19:32:21

After ending last year with unexpectedly strong vaccine success and hope that the pandemic and economic distress it caused would recede, we woke up to the reality of new virus variants and the unpre...

God's grandeur . . . and the promise of science

God's grandeur . . . and the promise of science

Syed Badrul Ahsan 2021-02-22 21:33:09

The wonders of science do not cease. Nasa has just had its Perseverance rover land on Mars. When you sit back and reflect on it, you cannot but think back on all the positive changes that have been...

Future of mobility and social business

Future of mobility and social business

Muhammad Yunus 2021-02-20 21:23:36

I vividly remember one of my most memorable trips I ever made. In the year 1955, I was part of the boy scout group who got the chance to travel to Europe and North America to the 10th World Jamboree o...

Globalisation and deglobalisation

Globalisation and deglobalisation

Muhammad Mahmood   2021-02-20 19:43:55

As the global economy stagnates and unravels, the current global economic trend described as "deglobalisation" is increasingly becoming a source of concern around the world. For developing countries...

How agro-based industries fare against the pre-pandemic level

How agro-based industries fare against the pre-pandemic level

Fahmida Khatun, Mustafizur Rahman, Khondaker Golam Moazzem, and Towfiqul Islam Khan 2021-02-19 20:21:43

Despite its healthy state in the early phase of the Covid-pandemic, the agriculture sector of Bangladesh was confronted with multiple challenges as the pandemic started to tighten its grip on the ec...

‘Sholka’ and ‘Shidol’, the disappearing traditional foods of Rangpur

‘Sholka’ and ‘Shidol’, the disappearing traditional foods of Rangpur

MAYESHA AFIYA JARIN 2021-02-19 14:36:11

Afra Anzum Rumpa, a lecturer at Prime University, was quite excited about the traditional foods of Rangpur before her marriage as her fiancé came from Rangpur, but that excitement faded when sh...

How e-government services can pay dividends

How e-government services can pay dividends

Ali Al-Sadiq 2021-02-16 20:52:14

The ability to renew your passport or driver's license, pay a tax bill, or access government data with the click of a button or swipe of a screen, anytime and anywhere, has grown more important during...

Open-ended & closed-ended Mutual Funds: Which one to choose?

Open-ended & closed-ended Mutual Funds: Which one to choose?

Raihan Amin 2021-02-16 20:49:10

Mutual funds, being staid relatives of common shares, do not generate much excitement among ordinary investors. To put it in context, assets under management (AUM) of the 98 mutual funds in the countr...

The antibiotic apocalypse: Rise of the superbugs

The antibiotic apocalypse: Rise of the superbugs

MARIA ANIS CHOWDHURY 2021-02-16 13:07:58

Imagine having to suffer through a life-threatening condition due to a minor infection or flu simply because the most common antibiotics are not working anymore? According to a study by ICDDRB, the ef...

Beating the odds in 2020

Beating the odds in 2020

Javed Hosein 2021-02-15 20:33:57

Indian Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy last year proclaimed that Bangladesh would be half empty if India offered citizenship to Bangladeshis. The facts, as presented by international...

Pandemic related economic challenges in Bangladesh

Pandemic related economic challenges in Bangladesh

Salwa Islam Audrika 2021-02-14 20:37:57

For the past decade, the silver lining for Bangladesh has been its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. While Bangladesh boasts development in infrastructure, exports and GDP per capita, the country s...

Voluminous work outlining the path to Decent Bangladesh      

Voluminous work outlining the path to Decent Bangladesh    

Shishir Reza and Matiur Rahman 2021-02-11 20:43:24

The outbreak of coronavirus has led many thinkers across the world to delve deep into the multi-faceted crisis facing the world and humanity today. Some of them have come-up with renewed, if not fresh...