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China's diplomatic efforts to address emerging sensitive issues

China's diplomatic efforts to address emerging sensitive issues

Muhammad Zamir 2020-09-20 21:29:16

The last few days have witnessed Chinese senior officials undertaking trips to various countries and attending meetings to try and resolve and reduce impact of evolving sensitive issues that are casti...

Defining woman entrepreneurship

Defining woman entrepreneurship

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2020-09-20 21:24:02

Since it's difficult to clearly define women entrepreneurs in view of diverse criteria in different countries and even within a country, there is an imperative to find a single, universal definition...

Banks' farm credit and recovery riddle

Banks' farm credit and recovery riddle

Haradhan Sarker   2020-09-19 21:30:03

Can we say for certain that recovery of farm credit disbursed by the banking sector of Bangladesh continues to exhibit improving trends? Are the statistics on recovery position consistent in several...

Difference between US, China response is staggering

Difference between US, China response is staggering

Vijay Prashad and John Rross 2020-09-18 21:10:53

In Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, he reports on interviews he did in February and March with US President Donald Trump about the coronavirus. Trump admitted that the virus was...

Cinema during the corona pandemic

Cinema during the corona pandemic

Shihab Sarkar 2020-09-17 21:30:12

An ominous existential threat now looms above the country's overall cinema industry. The sector involves a lot of segments and activities. Those mainly include movie-making, with directors, artistes,...

Coronavirus: The trajectory of recovery

Coronavirus: The trajectory of recovery

Hasnat Abdul Hye   2020-09-17 20:59:08

When countries overwhelmed with the pandemic outbreak declared lockdown (holiday in Bangladesh) their economies did not come to a standstill. Some sectors like agriculture, food processing, pharmace...

Demographic dividend: A roadmap to progress

Demographic dividend: A roadmap to progress

Parvez Sazzad Chowdhury   2020-09-16 20:56:08

Reviewing the trend of economic growth of the last ten years, it can be said with certainty that the economy of Bangladesh is at a particular stage of development at the moment. The government is comm...

Ozone for life: Celebrating ozone layer day

Ozone for life: Celebrating ozone layer day

Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder 2020-09-15 22:14:24

In 1994, the UN General Assembly proclaimed September 16 the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorating the date of the signing, in 1987, of the Montreal Protocol in the...

Covid-19 and agriculture: A story of resilience

Covid-19 and agriculture: A story of resilience

-- 2020-09-15 20:06:20

The World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat published a new information note last month examining the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on world agricultural trade. The paper notes that agricultural...

Open budget survey: How does Bangladesh fare?

Open budget survey: How does Bangladesh fare?

M. Abu Eusuf 2020-09-14 21:46:02

In democratic governance, the question of how public resources are mobilised and spent is particularly important to the relationship between citizens and state. The government is always expected to re...

The unfinished agenda of financing Africa's Covid-19 response

The unfinished agenda of financing Africa's Covid-19 response

Brahima Coulibaly, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Vera Songwe 2020-09-14 20:51:56

As summer winds down, another wave of Covid-19 infections looms. While cases remain under control in Cambodia, Denmark, Mauritius, and Morocco, they are on the rise in Ethiopia and parts of the United...

The circuitous road to peace in Afghanistan

The circuitous road to peace in Afghanistan

Muhammad Zamir 2020-09-13 20:56:29

Towards the end of February this year, United States of America and the Afghan Taliban signed an agreement aimed at achieving an end to almost 30 years of violent conflict in Afghanistan. This was bas...

Brexit trade talks on the brink

Brexit trade talks on the brink

Muhammad Mahmood     2020-09-12 20:20:05

The 8th Round of Brexit trade talks resumed in London on Tuesday, September 8 with a deadline set by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to get the deal signed by October 15 to avoid tariffs on cross border...

Strong infrastructure governance can end waste in public investment

Strong infrastructure governance can end waste in public investment

Gerd Schwartz, Manal Fouad, Torben Hansen, and Geneviève Verdier 2020-09-10 21:23:27

Covid-19 has had a profound impact on people, firms, and economies all over the world. While countries have ramped up public lifelines to individuals and firms they will face enormous challenges to re...

A mirror of Bangladesh's Macroeconomy

A mirror of Bangladesh's Macroeconomy

Abdul Bayes  2020-09-10 21:21:12

Any person deeply delved into Bangladesh's macroeconomic health should hurriedly access the most recently released book:  "Bangladesh's Macroeconomic Policy: Trends, Determinants and Impact". Edi...

Of deserts, their impacts on human life

Of deserts, their impacts on human life

Shihab Sarkar 2020-09-10 20:21:11

Like the seas or oceans, deserts have also long been fascinating man by their immense expanse. Undeniably, the desert sands lying infinitely for ages have beckoned a lot of humans. These people are gi...

Empowerment of rural women for tackling climate change

Empowerment of rural women for tackling climate change

Md. Abdul Karim   2020-09-10 20:09:21

The impact of climate change-- floods, drought, extreme weather, growing food/water insecurity etc., disproportionately affect the world's 1.3 billion poor, the majority of whom are women. 70 per ce...

Making loan rescheduling meaningful and sustainable 

Making loan rescheduling meaningful and sustainable 

Mohammad Masoom   2020-09-08 20:53:57

Classified loans in the country's banking sector stood at around Tk. 961.15 billion accounting for 9.20 per cent of the total outstanding loan in June 2020. During the quarter (April-June) default l...

Life after lockdown: Rebuilding tourism globally, sustainably

Life after lockdown: Rebuilding tourism globally, sustainably

-- 2020-09-08 20:40:12

For Mahmood Patel, 2020 was supposed to be a bumper year for his Barbados-based, tourism-dependent small business ventures. They include beach-front apartments, an organic farm-to-table café a...

Burn injuries: A public health battle in Bangladesh

Burn injuries: A public health battle in Bangladesh

Hasnat M Alamgir   2020-09-07 20:51:32

The incidence of burn injuries is frighteningly high in Bangladesh. A considerable proportion of the population-- both adult and pediatric of both gender-- suffers from preventable burn injuries. Ac...

On Bangladesh GDP in the time of coronavirus

On Bangladesh GDP in the time of coronavirus

Muhammad Mahmood   2020-09-05 20:00:51

The purpose of this article is to highlight issues that can impact on  Bangladesh GDP in view of the controversy surrounding the latest published data on the GDP growth rate for 2019-20. Accordin...

Thorough exercise to outline a meaningful LDC graduation

Thorough exercise to outline a meaningful LDC graduation

 Asjadul Kibria  2020-09-03 21:45:06

The development journey of Bangladesh reached a new height when the country became formally eligible to leave the Least Developed Country (LDC) league in 2018. Three years back in 2015, the country...

Fairness of valuation of IPO pricing in Bangladesh's capital market

Fairness of valuation of IPO pricing in Bangladesh's capital market

Md Sajib  Hossain 2020-09-03 21:10:02

Most of the companies that floated their stocks through book building methods in the past decade have experienced a significant decline in the post-IPO operating performance and seriously underperform...

A critical discussion on industrial management and Covid-19

A critical discussion on industrial management and Covid-19

Mohammad Khasro Miah 2020-09-02 21:16:46

Maintaining industrial productivity and smooth operation amid this global pandemic is imperative through formulating rational and the  appropriate strategies. This sudden depression, uncertain...

How nations can structurally transform their economies

How nations can structurally transform their economies

UNCTAD 2020-09-01 22:32:02

The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing countries to reassess and recalibrate their national and foreign policies. The need for the structural transformation of economies, which has eluded many developing c...

Digital Bangladesh: Running the economy during Covid-19 pandemic

Digital Bangladesh: Running the economy during Covid-19 pandemic

Md Sirajul Islam and Mohammad Rezaul Bari 2020-09-01 21:38:54

It has already been around for about nine months and the ubiquitous appearance of Covid-19 is still prevalent all around the globe. At the initial stage, it was assumed to be an epidemic like any ot...

Trend analysis of Covid-19 infection and death rates in Bangladesh

Trend analysis of Covid-19 infection and death rates in Bangladesh

 Shamsul Alam and Mohammad Zariab Hossain 2020-08-31 21:54:14

Now it is important to understand the trend of Covid-19 pandemic infestation and death rates in Bangladesh while we are gradually relaxing all economic activities and trying to bring back the normalcy...

Banks' Covid-led lending and hurdles to overcome

Banks' Covid-led lending and hurdles to overcome

Haradhan Sarker   2020-08-31 20:44:50

The government announced big set of financial stimulus packages aimed at offsetting widespread economic impacts of COVID-19 is now more pronounced than the actual status of implementation. The onus...

Bangladesh's Covid-19 testing criticised

Bangladesh's Covid-19 testing criticised

Sophie Cousins in The Lancet   2020-08-29 21:39:38

Public health experts in Bangladesh have  expressed  concern  about  the government's decision to charge people for Covid-19 tests amid a sharp decline in the number of tests being...

Empowering the garment workers: Impact of Alliance in Bangladesh

Empowering the garment workers: Impact of Alliance in Bangladesh

Hasnat M Alamgir 2020-08-27 21:49:18

The giant North American retail companies including JCPenney, Kohl's, Macy's, Nordstrom, Sears, Target, Canadian Tire, The Children's Place, Costco, Fruit of the Loom, Gap, Hudson's Bay, VF Corporatio...